produced “Calm Down,” a record that also features a guest verse
from Eminem and is scheduled to appear on Busta Rhymes’
upcoming album, Extinction Level Event 2. Although the song was
released late last month, Busta revealed that the record has been in
the works for quite some time, during his interview on Sway’s
Universe.
According to Busta, the song was originally three minutes and eight
seconds long, but skyrocketed to six minutes and six seconds long
when Em submitted his verse, which forced Busta to change his
entire approach to the song.
“The song was originally like three minutes and eight seconds,”
Busta Rhymes said. “I had just put a regular song structure to it.
Two, 16 bar verses and a hook. The same hook that’s there. Met with
Paul Rosenberg with Chris Lighty. God bless his soul. This was one of
the last meetings that me and Chris did before he passed. Gave it to
Paul on a CD. Didn’t hear back from Paul for about six weeks. Riggs
Morales came through and Shaheem had Rich come out the studio to
hear the song. When Riggs heard the record, Riggs kinda was so
excited about the joint he goes back to Paul. Two weeks later we get
a call confirming that Em is ready to do the joint…We get a call
from Paul saying he coming by the studio he gon’ play us something.
He get to the studio he played a verse. Em is rhyming for like 42
bars on a verse. And my two, 16s was on the song and I’m looking at
it like ‘Nah, this ain’t gon’ work’…I had to change my approach. So,
I went and I wrote 50 new bars.”
In regards to his label situation, Busta says he’s no longer at Cash
Money Records and added that his split from the label was an
amicable one. He revealed that while working on his album, he lost
his friend, Chris Lighty and his father, and as a result chose to rid
himself of his label situations.
“Actually, nothing happened in a negative way with Cash Money,”
he said. “And actually nothing happened in a negative way with
Aftermath. I think the difference really with the Aftermath
situation was more me and Interscope. You know what I’m saying? It
was just creative issues that was just conflicting a little bit, but it
led to other frustrations. That really had nothing to do with the
creative shit. So, at that point a discussion was had. And the
beautiful thing about these situations is that the stage that I was at
at those times, everybody had already respected what I’ve built and
what I’ve accomplished on my own prior to getting with them…Same
thing with Cash Money. I was there for two years and the
opportunity was a great opportunity at the time because of the type
of deal that was done…I just had a conversation with Bird like,
‘Listen, bro. I’m grateful and everything is love with us, but I just
gotta see this through the way that I want to see this through.’"
In a previous interview with Complex, Busta revealed that he’s
hoping for a November 2014 release for Extinction Level Event 2, but
is still in the middle of handling sample issues.
“In an ideal world, I would want it to come out around November,”
the rapper said. “But I’m dealing with some sample clearance legal
issues. Until that process is resolved, I can’t actually lock in the way
I want to on my date. But so far the sailing has been smooth.
Regardless, it’s definitely coming this year.”
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