1. He once held a record in the Guinness Book of World Records.

It’s no secret Busta raps at excessive speeds. I mean really, how many times did you have to listen to his verse on “Look At Me Now” to catch the first three lines of his verse? In 2000, Busta Rhymes was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for having said the most syllables in one second. The title belonged to voice-over actor, John Moschitta, previously. A little known rapper from Chicago stole the title back from the New York MC a few years later.

2. His rap name comes from a former football player.

When Rhymes began rapping, he went along with the trend of hip-hop. Everybody who was anybody had “Ski” in their rap moniker. Busta Rhymes was no different. His first rap name was Chilly-O-Ski. Soon after giving himself that name, he and plenty of other people decided it was corny. Chuck D of Public Enemy rechristened him Busta Rhymes after the former Minnesota Viking, George “Buster” Rhymes. Could you imagine saying, “Yo, did you hear Chilly-O-Ski’s new song? That’s dope, son!” No? Us either.

3. He’s been featured on more than 300 songs.

Remixes have become the norm in hip-hop. When a hot song drops, we sit and speculate who is going to be on the remix. More often than not, Busta is on the remix. Not only subjected to remixes, most of Rhymes’ biggest hits are tracks where he breezes in, drops a hot 16, and bounces. Case and point, The Pussycat Dolls’ first single, “Don’t Cha” got spins. However, when Busta hopped on it, the track became a Top 5 hit on the Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart in 2005. His collaborators range from people like house music sensation, Tiesto, to DMX. His wild energy and preciise delivery are a couple of reasons he lands on everyone’s track.

4. Busta Rhymes has only had one album debut at number one.

Out of the eight discs he has released, five have gone platinum. Out of the five that have gone platinum, none opened at number one. 2006′s The Big Bang is Busta’s only disc to sit atop the album heap for at least a week. Ironically, The Big Bang is one of his lesser selling projects. In spite of hits like “Touch It” and “I Love My Chick,” it’s only sold 613,000 copies after opening week sales of 209,000 copies. That means one third of total sales of this album came from the first week. Yikes!

5. He left Leaders of the New School before getting their record deal.

Busta hit the scene as part of the rap group, Leaders of the New School. If you remember, the group ended on the set of Yo! MTV Raps. Many don’t know Busta and Leaders of the New School broke up and got back together before they got their deal. In an interview with VladTV, Rhymes recounted the tale of getting kicked out for not giving Dinco D and Charlie Brown a ride. “Me and Leaders of the New  School weren’t getting along from before the first album. When you hear “Too Much On My Mind,” I don’t have a verse on it. They started recording while I was on the outs with the group and the person who wanted to sign Leaders of the New School didn’t want to sign us if it wasn’t the same members he saw perform months earlier. They asked me to come back and I agreed, but I had a few stipulations. The main one was that they had to let me use two of my solo songs on the album. So I did “Feminine Fatt” and “Show Me A Hero” by myself because of that.”

6. He was once a clothing designer.

Everyone knows Busta Rhymes can rap and act, but what they scratched their heads about was if he knew anything about designing clothes. Rhymes proved he had a little bit of knowledge when he debuted his clothing line, Bushi, in the late 90s. Like most start up businesses, profit was damn near invisible for the first few years. As the profits continued to find their way to the rapper’s pockets at a snail’s pace, he became increasingly bored with the venture. Rhymes decided to cut his losses and close up shop. He donated the leftover merchandise to local charities and went back to being a rapper full time.

7. Getting a record deal was the reason for growing his dreads.

Since entering the rap world in 1989, Busta has been seen with his trademark dreadlocks. Many attributed his locks to his Jamaican heritage. They would be wrong. The actual reason is far less cultural. When he got his record deal, he decided he wasn’t going top comb or cut his hair because he didn’t have to anymore. He hacked his locks off in 2005 when he left J Records to join Dr. Dre’s Aftermath stable. He said cutting his hair was symbolic of a new beginning at a new label.

8. Busta Rhymes is the Susan Lucci of rap music.

Daytime soap actress, Susan Lucci, is famous for having been nominated for an Emmy 18 times since 1978 and only winning once in 1999. When it comes to rap, Busta is in the same boat. Despite having some of the most creative videos of the 90s, Busta Rhymes has never won a MTV Video Music Award. He’s been nominated 15 times. He is second to Britney Spears in shut outs. She was shut out of 17 nominations until she went home with three trophies in 2008. The Video Music Awards isn’t the only place Busta has been left out. With nine nominations, the Grammys have never recognized Rhymes for his work. This year might be different, with “Look At Me Now” being such a huge record, it’s bound to get nominated in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category. He has a pretty good shot at winning that one.

9. He would’ve rather been a member of A Tribe Called Quest.

As mentioned earlier, the relationship between Busta Rhymes and the other members of Leaders of the New School was tumultuous. They fought over everything. Busta’s increasing popularity as a solo act was a big cause for arguments. Rhymes was getting so much attention as a solo act because he was featured on a handful of A Tribe Called Quest records without the other Leaders of the New School members. Busta gave an interview where he stated, “I always wanted to be in Tribe. I would always leave Leaders of the New School after a beef and call Q-Tip to find out what studio they were at. I have so many cameos on Tribe records without Leaders of the New School because Tribe always embraced me when I was going through my frustrations with Leaders of the New School. Tribe always considered me family.”

10. Sean Connery isn’t a fan of Busta’s lateness.

Oscar winning actor, Sean Connery, is notorious for being extremely punctual. When shooting the film, Finding Forrester,  Busta arrived on set two minutes late and was greeted by a late slip from the Scottish actor. Considering Sean Connery also served as one of the film’s producers, Rhymes couldn’t get too beside himself otherwise he would’ve been out of a job. The rapper did like 2pac when he got shot five times, he took the slip and smiled.

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However, if you look at “reality” TV as the template you could walk away with some really peculiar ideas about Black romance! We’ve rounded up some of the most popular “black love” shows on reality TV and shed a tear for the days of Cliff and Claire Huxtable…

Starting off with the originator Flavor Flav…

Flavor Of Love was Vh1′s rendition of “The Bachelor” minus the white millionaire and “class” part. Nevertheless, “Flav” broke hearts and television rating records. His search for love (which has always been strange) brought about a fame thirsty Tiffany Pollard aka New York.

Although she apparently didn’t have the “Flavor Of Love” her obnoxious personality  spawned her own reality series. “I Love New York” took her out of the background and put her in the limelight. Instead of looking for love, twenty men fought for hers. But even with the fighting between The Entertainer, Real and Chance her mom found a man faster than she did. New York’s search had the highest debut in Vh1 history!

Two spin-offs later the brothers known as Real And Chance got their shot at rejecting women in a degrading manner.  Ultimately, Ahmad (Real) selected a young lady named Corn Fed while Kamal (Chance) selected remained single. In the second season Doll and Hot Wings were the lucky ladies.

But why should the reality show castaways have all of the fun?

By this time it was pretty obvious that all these reality love shows never actually worked out in “real” life but Vh1 kept it going with “For The Love of Ray-J.” Ray wasn’t on any of the original series but, he got a chance to chase love too. After having his heart “broken” by Kim Kardashian he was the perfect candidate to take on the role of the next relationship seeker. A baby, gay rumor, mental hospital,Cock-Tail and milf later I guess he found what he was looking or.

This brings us to where we are today…

“Lets Talk About Pep” is Vh1′s newest “I can’t find love the regular way” show.  So far the only real flames have been on her date’s processed hair. I wonder who they will sign up next?

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“You can call me Miss Tiffany,” giggles New York, aka Tiffany Pollard, the sassy, synthetic Nubian princess of VH1 reality fame. That’s MISS Tiffany, as in the very single, very available Miss Tiffany, runner-up reject on two seasons of Flavor of Love turned lovelorn lead on I Love New York. How could it be? Single again?! “A lot of the guys were dealing with me on the surface level,” she says. “I always put my heart on the line, but these guys were mostly there for the cameras.” Miss Tiffany came close to love–flirting with muscle-dweeb Punk (currently linked to Jennifer Hudson), considered a second try with bad-boy thug Chance (currently in his own reality show), and finally settled on angel-eyed schmooze, Tailor Made (currently dumped).

“I don’t think anyone wants to see me fall in love. It’s the journey they want to see.” Miss Tiffany has recently been pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles (hence the title of her latest reality show, New York Goes to Hollywood), but doesn’t rule out a new direction. “The possibilities are definitely endless–I turn down lots of offers. It feels good to be in demand.” As long as we can keep chewing on her Hubba Bubba-sized personality, we don’t care what flavor it is.”

Mixologist Alex Ott is a tricky effing trickster. When we were filming my “Too Many Patrons With LeMarvin” segment a few weeks ago, I mentioned to him that I’ll drink anything BUT gin. I told him it gives me headaches, makes me puke, and I just all-around loathe it. So, to call my bluff, he made me a gin drink without telling me.

AND I DRANK IT

AND I DIDN’T DIE

Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.

So he comes to our office a week ago with a few bottles of New Amsterdam gin for us to try, and I’m all, “nuh uh, I don’t drink that,” and he’s all, “oh yea, stupid? Well that was a gin drink I made you a couple weeks ago!!!! Sucker.” (Okay, he didn’t call me stupid or a sucker, but that’s totally how I felt.)

And now I present to you New Amsterdam’s “Soho” – I tasted it. It’s delicious. And I didn’t die. I guess I’d just been mentally psyching myself out since that time I drank too much gin and was convinced my life was over. Hmph.

SOHO

2 oz New Amsterdam gin
Spring of mint
Stem of lemongrass
1/4 ts ground ginger
1 oz agave nectar or simple syrup
1 oz lime juice
2 oz ginger ale

• Cut lemongrass into small pieces, and combine small palm full into bottom of cocktail shaker glass.
• Muddle with mint until flavor is released, add ginger and all other ingredients, then shake very hard
• Strain over ice in a highball glass until glass is 3/4 filled up.
• Fill up all the way with ginger ale!
• Garnish with lime wheel that has been spiked with lemongrass straw.

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MediaTakeOut.com just caught wind of an EXPLOSIVE rumor. According to a person associated with World Wrestling Entertainment, Tiffany “New York” Pollard may become a pro wrestler.

The insider, who spoke to MediaTakeOut.com on the condition of anonymity claims that the wrestling organization has been in negotiations with Tiffany for months to join them. And the insider claims that the two sides are pretty close to a deal.

And it gets better, MediaTakeOut.com’s snitch claims that New York could play an “integral role” in Wrestlemania 25 – on April 5th.

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