Busta Rhymes Discusses Motown Deal And 'Arab Money'

iTzMe · 10-02-2008, 07:52 PM

Busta Rhymes has had an interesting week. After previewing his new album, unveiling news about a new release date and a new dance, Busta's gotten the chance to perform in London, even after overcoming a conflict with the UK High Court. After all of this, he has been able to come out and reveal his new found joy.

In a recent interview with Tim Westwood, of Westwood Radio, Busta spoke on all of this.

"A lot has changed in the last two months since I last seen you. They detaining me for 12 hours in the immigration," he said, speaking on his immigration hold up before his recent London show. His attitude has also changed to one of joy.

"[I] got a new label situation. I got a new album release date, December 9. I'm happy,"

The songs on his new album may feature some songs that were set to release on his final Interscope album.

"First and foremost, all the records that was gonna come out on the last records was my records," says Busta. "So at the end of the day, my records are on the new label."

He also spoke on what the label move meant and how he felt about his former label, saying, "Big up to Interscope because they put up two hot leak records for me."

A new song that's got some people talking, for better or worse, is "Arab Money." Speculations of a politically incorrect connotation swarmed the song at first, but Rhymes spoke on what it should be taken to mean.

"It's called 'Arab Money.'...'Take the Money' or 'Arab Money'," he said before speaking on his interpretation of the song. "Sometimes, people like to twist things. We ain't mockin' the culture. we ain't tryin' to be disrespectful. Ain't no racism going on right here. If you listen to the song, you see that we are actually acknowledging the fact that the Arabian culture, a middle East culture is one of the few cultures, that value passing down hard work riches that's been built amongst the family."

"It would be nice if a lot of other cultures did the same thing. Feel me? So, I would like for it to be like that in my culture where we could build things to the point where we got so much that we don't need to rely on other cultures to contribute majorly in a financial way, or in whatever other way, to societies, communities or whatever governments we might live in. So, we are actually biggin' up the culture. At the end of the day, I want to be like that. I think a lot of us want to be like that."

His new album is set to hit stores December 9. He is also featured on JakeOne's White Van Music.

Source: HipHopDX

Oceans Eleven · 10-02-2008, 08:41 PM

Arab money simply shows, arabic people are wealthy as fuck!

Dubai, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia... The richest and economically strongest countries in the world - Fact.

WE GETTING ARAB MONEY!

Lil_E · 10-02-2008, 08:46 PM

middle eastern people that have came to america are rich as fuck yah dig.. money long as fuc

mksmn515 · 10-02-2008, 09:13 PM

well at least he didnt say jew money....

GMNRecordsCT3 · 10-03-2008, 08:22 AM

song is stupid... no creativity... sounds like t pain and that swizzy song

10-02-2008, 07:52 PM	#1
iTzMe Punch Line King Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,987 Repped: 1,061 Repped 2,656 Times in 363 Posts Neg Reps: 24 Neg Repped at 11 Times in 8 Posts	Busta Rhymes Discusses Motown Deal And 'Arab Money' Busta Rhymes Discusses Motown Deal And 'Arab Money' Busta Rhymes has had an interesting week. After previewing his new album, unveiling news about a new release date and a new dance, Busta's gotten the chance to perform in London, even after overcoming a conflict with the UK High Court. After all of this, he has been able to come out and reveal his new found joy. In a recent interview with Tim Westwood, of Westwood Radio, Busta spoke on all of this. "A lot has changed in the last two months since I last seen you. They detaining me for 12 hours in the immigration," he said, speaking on his immigration hold up before his recent London show. His attitude has also changed to one of joy. "[I] got a new label situation. I got a new album release date, December 9. I'm happy," The songs on his new album may feature some songs that were set to release on his final Interscope album. "First and foremost, all the records that was gonna come out on the last records was my records," says Busta. "So at the end of the day, my records are on the new label." He also spoke on what the label move meant and how he felt about his former label, saying, "Big up to Interscope because they put up two hot leak records for me." A new song that's got some people talking, for better or worse, is "Arab Money." Speculations of a politically incorrect connotation swarmed the song at first, but Rhymes spoke on what it should be taken to mean. "It's called 'Arab Money.'...'Take the Money' or 'Arab Money'," he said before speaking on his interpretation of the song. "Sometimes, people like to twist things. We ain't mockin' the culture. we ain't tryin' to be disrespectful. Ain't no racism going on right here. If you listen to the song, you see that we are actually acknowledging the fact that the Arabian culture, a middle East culture is one of the few cultures, that value passing down hard work riches that's been built amongst the family." "It would be nice if a lot of other cultures did the same thing. Feel me? So, I would like for it to be like that in my culture where we could build things to the point where we got so much that we don't need to rely on other cultures to contribute majorly in a financial way, or in whatever other way, to societies, communities or whatever governments we might live in. So, we are actually biggin' up the culture. At the end of the day, I want to be like that. I think a lot of us want to be like that." His new album is set to hit stores December 9. He is also featured on JakeOne's White Van Music. Source: HipHopDX __________________ "Cool As AC Cuz The Heat Secure Me"- Bank$ aka The PLK

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Oceans Eleven Move In Silence Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Unknown Posts: 250 Repped: 66 Repped 43 Times in 10 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Arab money simply shows, arabic people are wealthy as fuck! Dubai, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia... The richest and economically strongest countries in the world - Fact. WE GETTING ARAB MONEY! __________________ You wonder why my days hard, I spend my morning in the grave yard, We crawl into this world and walk away scard - Lloyd Banks

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GMNRecordsCT3 Macaroni wit the Cheeesse Join Date: May 2005 Location: Wash Heights, NYC Posts: 17,619 Repped: 6,784 Repped 2,310 Times in 619 Posts Neg Reps: 206 Neg Repped at 50 Times in 40 Posts	song is stupid... no creativity... sounds like t pain and that swizzy song __________________ myspace.com/bummydavis - soundclick.com/gmnproductions "The name on my car insurance is YOUR FUKIN FAULT!!"

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Lil_E Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 944 Repped: 152 Repped 11 Times in 4 Posts Neg Reps: 4 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	middle eastern people that have came to america are rich as fuck yah dig.. money long as fuc

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mksmn515 Veteran Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ann Arbor Michigan Posts: 4,801 Repped: 224 Repped 297 Times in 61 Posts Neg Reps: 4 Neg Repped at 9 Times in 7 Posts	well at least he didnt say jew money....