Lord Jamar Talks Busta Rhymes Scolding the Crowd at Essence Fest

[@funkybluestuff5519]

Some Black Americans are pissed off at Busta Ryhmes' disrespectful comment, while ...LIVING off and copying Black American Culture and Styles.

[@zionel6555]

Black American culture is American culture just like white culture

[@thdoom81]

LOL FUCK THEM

[@shay-shayhandlestolenbyyt]

And don't even see the irony in it!!

[@mustent5713]

I'm from Louisiana. It was the comments about black americans. We don't play that mess in the south.

[@NoPlainJane-o3c]

They forget that when people come together to boycott a business down here it’s going to happen.

[@johnnymayes212]

Yeap

[@trentonjenkins2243]

Facts!!!! I'm from South Carolina and we don't play that either.....

[@richhardaway323]

Exactly I'm from Atlanta... he was should not have said that.

[@truthhurts79]

Oh stop it.. you country Southerners are push overs also

[@nofacade100]

I’m so sick of people like Busta Rhymes……who uses black American slang, wears black American fashion, and became a millionaire off black America music……insulting black Americans. We gotta start checking these people immediately. I had no idea Busta even said that

[@MentalPistol]

Busta been in America longer and has had more influence on americans than you.

[@tillgogum8288]

Busta Rhymes is wrong saying black americans have no culture. he is right to say hip-hop is influenced by jamaican culture. everyone who is aware, knows this! kool herc, one of the forefathers of hip-hop was born and raised in Jamaica and moved to NYC! but he's is STILL a black american. yes his heritage is Jamaican but he's born and raised in NYC in the USA. it don't make him less of a black american. he was born in the decade hip-hop started.

[@MentalPistol]

@@tillgogum8288 cant confuse em with truth dog, they got their minds made up.

[@thdoom81]

YOU AREN'T FROM NEW YORK LOL

[@tonybone132]

THE UNIVERSE HEARD WHAT BUSTA SAID AND THE UNIVERSE IS RESPONDING.

[@informedRev13]

Agreed!

[@ms.t4322]

The Universe is just getting started it's coming for anyone else that disrespected Us💯

[@str8alphamale]

​@ms.t4322 It's real black Americans FBA against the world ..

[@dcam8540]

That's soooo true

[@jkbzz]

​@@str8alphamaleyou've been brainwashed by that race hustler Tariq Nasheed.

[@AFmajorbeats]

What he mean we don't have a culture? The South is a culture by itself!

[@beedee5369]

New Orleans is a culture by itself. Then Louisiana is culture by itself. So on and so on...

[@Embassy97]

Facts if he was on the east coast he would have been fine shit don’t fly in the south I support busta either way

[@thdoom81]

americans have no culture

[@berniecohens6409]

When you come from an immigrant background and you disrespect FBA'S you got a problem here in the South, we don't play that shit

[@daved3948]

Straight facts!

[@keyfield8967]

You right!! Jamaicans were not down south putting in work against all these ws MFers. No foreign grifting clowns 'eating' off Black America.

[@kennylafortune63]

you goofies didn’t care about that shit until your lord and savior tarqie nasheed started saying it

[@tyronedavis1672]

I'm from Mississippi and living in Detroit, man FBA all day ❤

[@Wetumpka.Alabama]

Tell Busta to go perform in Jamaica. 🖕🏿

[@WJBrown]

THEY 😂DONT WANT HIM EITHER LOL. HE NOT LIKE US!!!!@

[@Wetumpka.Alabama]

@@WJBrown Just like Marcus Garvey. 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@ricolaw1033]

😂😂😂😂

[@ra-neter6662]

@@Wetumpka.Alabama df?

[@jaye6300]

@@WJBrown this whole "us" thing. Ya throw it around like it's a good thing. All you "us" characters type nothing but ignorance. Your right!!! We ain't like you... ya straight butt cheeks

[@MacT991]

Lord Jamar is trending heavy right now💯

[@truthhurts79]

But never with his music 😂

[@ron27401]

​@@truthhurts79 he moved on from music. Just like you should move on from being a hater.

[@truthhurts79]

@@ron27401 he moved on from music because no one listen to that 💩😂

[@mackl8305]

@@truthhurts79dude hasnt made music in like almost 30 year. Brand nubian still do old school shows. I seen them perform in the bronx recently

[@truthhurts79]

@@mackl8305 because ppl stopped listening to them when grand puba left... They was never that big in the first place

[@tonynature]

I'm a proud London born Jamaican but don't like hearing FBA being spoken about in negative terms. FBA are the most gifted people on earth and for that same reason have been through Babylonian systemic evil like no other.

[@ohr19167]

Thank u bro because we are and so are blacks as a whole

[@LaronWarReady]

Hell No! Gifted yes, but not more or less gifted than any other group of black people.

[@reginaldjackson7905]

Thx bro for recognizing the truth and being bold and honest same love right back bro ✊🏾

[@Cali-ssippian]

✔️💯💪🏾🙏🏽❤️👊🏽

[@Real1TravelChannel]

@@tonynature And we got love for brothers like you but shit just been out of control lately with people we thought was like family only to stab us in the back. For the Record I love them black London Gangster Flicks several of them...

[@deedee_Cute-n-Cherokee]

People will try to play it off because the truth hurts. He had to cancel his tour and had to latch on to Missy's tour. So, his comment may have something to do with the crowd's response.

[@makiba9461]

Thank you

[@damionjwilliams]

And latched on to a Black American's tour at that lol

[@randalllakeworth3134]

@@damionjwilliams hahhahaa

[@thdoom81]

@@damionjwilliams white people support hip hop not you bums lol

[@ambfilm1188]

FBA’s are not rocking with Busta anymore. He was way too disrespectful to our culture and the music we created that he benefited from. He can continue to kick rocks even after he gives an apology to the FBA community.

[@MainCPUwon]

I definitely believe that he getting the Ol' FBA Work!!!!

[@freebandz509]

And bustas a whole punk out here batyman 🤣

[@TonezworldTV]

fiya-buns! ....pause lol

[@capoislamort100]

You really think Busta swing like that?

[@marquelfields870]

😭😭😭🙈​@@TonezworldTV

[@TSims873]

​@@capoislamort100 it's plenty of proof. Not too mention he came up under Afrikaa Bambattaa. Do your research on Bambattaa

[@FBA_AllTHEWAY]

That outfit he had on makes him suspect too😂🤣

[@HappyGouldianFinch-cl3sw]

We are new Orleans. We heard what Busta rhymes said about us having no culture. Why his Jamaican fans didn't show up

[@Talik727]

FBA’s standing on business !!!

[@WJBrown]

PREACH 🔥

[@jaye6300]

FBA is hogwash

[@jackieselah]

Consequences and Repercussions, Busta 😂

[@jaye6300]

@@jackieselah who owns the industry and platforms... that's more important🤷🏾‍♂️ Even Jay z gotta answer to the Whytman🤷🏾‍♂️ And ya crying over the Ricans... idiots

[@geelove4974]

😂😂😂😂 What business

[@abdulrahim8446]

I'm riding with Lord Jamar on this!!!!

[@richardginyard2140]

Delineating from these immigrant tethers is exactly what we FBA’s are on.

[@twlauderdale]

My man is telling the truth, a lot of carribeans look down on black Americans

[@ruggedtechie5867]

Yeah well good , we will succeed anyway . F him and anyone that thinks like him

[@user-pq2nv7lt8n]

everybody does

[@willyjakkz]

That's fact. Got into a disagreement with the young homie and he said "you Americans always think y'all..."

[@namelesintelect4016]

As we should! People are quick to deride FBA culture while we put that bread in their pockets. We've been too cool for too long.

[@Rue100]

FACTSSSSSSS...BUSTA RHYMES and KRS ONE, fat joe are allllll WRONGGG...BLACK AMERICANS CREATED HIP HOP POINT BLANK FACTSSSSSSS

[@thdoom81]

which people? you are the most paranoid people in the world

[@namelesintelect4016]

@@thdoom81 if you don't know you definitely aren't FBA.

[@hebrewisraelite8100]

I fuck with Lord Jamar. He always keep it real.

[@stayflyking]

It could be all of the above. His reaction amplifies it anyway. Its not a coincidence that he's been having problems with shows right after his comments kept circling in the media.

[@jamesbey8779]

I'm damn sure not rocking with that Zest Monsta. Fat Joe, KRS 1 neither. I've been a fan since Loves gonna get you too. But hell naw, he a OPP now.

[@Peacekeepa317]

Yall find any reason to make a black person an opp, but you don't keep that same energy with white folks

[@LurnWell]

Naw, they can make mistakes on history, because they weren't there and I can still respect them for their contributions...But saying there's no culture from Black Americans is another problem.

[@willyjakkz]

Hold up, what KRS One said?

[@PTD74]

Fuck an apology stand on what u stand on

[@timwhiteside9971]

and that's why nobody is " standing " at his shows .

[@theodora1798]

@@timwhiteside9971 Exactly 💯

[@karterknowles6733]

And that’s why the lm seats empty and he gotta keep canceling shows 😂 … Fuck a busta go back to Jamaica

[@DAL3520]

@@timwhiteside9971 RIGHT!!!!

[@chrishandacausey]

I loved Busta until he said that

[@illacook3636]

For sure

[@jaye6300]

Until he said what? Where is the lie? Ricans were mot creating hiphop with blacks since the mid 70's? There's tons of footage about that. Why did the movies in the 80's like beat street and breakin have Ricans in the movies. Why was Prince markie D of the Fat boys Rican? Cmon now ya sound ignorant

[@josephtanner3929]

Me aswell ! Busta is done to us!

[@mackl8305]

@@jaye6300because breaking and the 80s isnt the beginning creation.

[@jaye6300]

@@mackl8305 even if it wasn't that's when it became relevant. No one was talking about breaking before that. No movies were showing that. You must be a southerner. Hiphop is NY bruh. There's movies on this topic.... and it took 40 something years for clowns to grow a backbone to take all this out of context. Listen you or no one else can change what actually happened. That why KRS made his statement and so did Busta and in the eyes and minds of true hiphop heads in the WORLD they hold more truth and power than this corny narrative on the internet that holds no weight. 🤷🏾‍♂️ Go to Japan and Brazil and Puerto Rico and Russia and you or Tariq or ya new southerners try and tell the world otherwise... KRS was and will be more relevant in that truth than this new low budget wave ya trying to spin.... Now go and put your energy into things that can truly uplift society as a whole. I got work to do

[@Kevin-xy8ym]

Treachery is something that no serious people accept

[@TrichsRUs]

These Caribbeans be thinking they're part of the royal family, because they worship a Monarchy.

[@CottonClubRadio2024]

The facts stand. Until Busta Apologies to the whole Black American family for his ridiculous comments. He gets No love fam. Period. Busta bus.

[@karterknowles6733]

And even after that he still gets no love bc it’s to late now

[@jonathanjackson7334]

THANK YOU!!

[@FBA_AllTHEWAY]

Too late for apology the damage is done

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

I don't want his apology. He's canceled.

[@bamaboi6845]

He can keep that shit

[@nepps617]

Him claiming hip hop was born in Jamaica, his comments about black Americans. I'm a lifelong fan, but that was it for me. He couldn't pay me me to come see him

[@liveone11]

Ever heard of toasting?

[@illacook3636]

Maybe ain't the word, they were and should have protested. Busta spoke ill of the culture. We cool on that cat.

[@chrisrobinson8339]

What did he say?

[@illacook3636]

@@chrisrobinson8339 he said black Americans don't have any culture

[@davesylvindeckerii4528]

@@chrisrobinson8339he said that the US has no black culture

[@chrisrobinson8339]

@@davesylvindeckerii4528 thanks. Busta is bogus for that.

[@davesylvindeckerii4528]

@@chrisrobinson8339 No problem and yea he is bamma for that and he been kissing diddy ass so there’s that

[@ghostwalker89]

When i was growing up in the 90s and 2000s, i knew of Jamaica, but didn't know Jamaicans. I knew of Haiti, but no Haitians. I knew of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, etc, but didn't know those peoples. What I'm saying is, I knew black people when I saw them. Even as a I got older and starting seeing them more as distinct cultures, i still considered them, my people and wanted a coalition of all black people. However over the last several years, i have found out that all "races of color", and different dark skinned people from different countries that share African ancestry, really disliked black Americans. Even black immagrants here who built themselves off the backs of all the progress of FBAs, decided they didn't really F with us either. That's why i have learned to only f with other races and other black nations of people on an individual, mpersonal level. If we haven't did dirt in the field, so to speak, with each other, there is no way i can be truly cool with you. The trust has been eroded that far.

[@mustent5713]

Age dont matter, we showed out for Juvenile

[@chrisrobinson8339]

Juvenile younger than Busta. Not the same.

[@ramire7heavenz252]

Juvee from Nola tho too

[@kweli05]

@@chrisrobinson8339They are three years apart. Once you get their age, it’s basically the same.

[@aubrey44]

It's in the NO

[@strangebrewmediagroup310]

That's not Busta Rhymes tho

[@dee4nola]

Nobody was there for busta,it was a cash money night that night

[@caponemobbgames9895]

Peace to the Gods!

[@StaticbeyfrmSemoran]

Peace peace.

[@rocksofoffence.righteousam2422]

Personally, speaking as a FBA, I've never considered our People to be against, comparing or even competing against Caribbean Blacks, because we all have 1 common natural born enemy

[@Undefeatedatoutwittingtrolls]

Well welcome to reality my brother now u see why we are delineating

[@prophecy9521]

Caribbean’s contribution in hip-hop has been there since the genesis

[@Undefeatedatoutwittingtrolls]

@@prophecy9521 Womp womp

[@FBA_God_Emperor_Doom]

​@@prophecy9521y'all been cosplaying since the genesis because not one iota of caribbean culture has influenced Hip-Hop.

[@prophecy9521]

@@Undefeatedatoutwittingtrolls that’s what you do when you have nothing to say eh😂

[@julesgordon1109]

Its easy for black people to cancel other people that looks like us...if only we had the same energy for vlad.

[@xxreyoxx]

Omg this! I been seeing these comments and thinking the same thing. But not just with Vlad but other vultures too. Quick to cancel they brothers and support the opps.

[@LurnWell]

You shouldn't be canceling or supporting people based on what they look like...

[@julesgordon1109]

@@LurnWell apparently we do!

[@LurnWell]

@@julesgordon1109 As long as it's not based on appearance...We should cancel. Vlad has never said that black people did not have a culture... Can't keep crying about another man.

[@Blackrage843]

​@julesgordon1109 You're right, and at the same time, you're wrong. A lot of people have been moving away from it and he's been having fits about it Number 2 Busta Rhymes openly insulted black Americans. It needs to be consequences for that him and any other celebrities

[@AJ-pc5ln]

Louisiana is the South it's majority Black Americans down South It ain't a bunch of Caribbeans like New York. I definitely believe the people there was turning their back on him.

[@makiba9461]

Busta was supposed to do his own single concert tour this year but he had to cancel because the tickets wasn’t selling….look that up.

[@yessir8805]

FBA/indigenous Americans standing on business. Aniyunawiya over here. Edit: Martin Luther King, before the pilgrims we was here. Im being exile on my own land...

[@huntzoneent879]

Facts Caribbean people have been acting like that since 2003 after

[@bornkinguniversal]

Why 2003?

[@mackl8305]

Idk exactly when it started but in ny i started noticing the snobby attitude toward black americans around mid to late 2000s. That was also around the time everybody stopped listening to ny hiphop and focused on the south

[@yessir8805]

I notice that to. Alot of Jamaican, Haitian, Trinidadian, Cuba flags all over. Then they down us, but walk, talk, and even join our FBA gangs. It's Jamaican crips' in Brooklyn, yet we have no culture? You see any FBA in the Haitian Zoe's?

[@apextraxx2903]

​@@yessir8805 Haitians in Florida don't act funny towards black Americans in Florida even though they actually got a reason to. We used to do them wrong until they earn their respect.

[@kylesmall6064]

​​@@yessir8805 this is why FBA folk get laughed at and not taken seriously. Who TF is proud of claiming a gang? "Joining FBA gangs" FOH. No one with sense would be proud of that.

[@AridGems]

I use to rock with da god heavy. Saw Busta perform Arab Money at the Rock the Bells way back when. He had the crowd jumpin. Those comments he made about blk americans got me vexed tho. I see em differently now. But this has been a thing like ol boy said. This ain't new.

[@mackl8305]

I think alot of fba really didnt know Caribbeans looked at them so negatively. Us being in ny definitely know but fba always been on this black is black love for all black ppl thing. But now theyre aware and fba not playing with them anymore

[@chrisrobinson8339]

What's fba?

[@karterknowles6733]

@@chrisrobinson8339you know what the fuck it is!

[@2conscious]

​@@chrisrobinson8339 Foundational Black Americans

[@chrisrobinson8339]

@@karterknowles6733 I know after Conscious just told me.

[@jermaineburgess3767]

They can't put their hands where the eyes can see anymore 😅😂

[@fredbjamz4956]

Honestly I’m from Louisiana and I’m like 1 out of every 1,000 that listen to NY rappers like Busta. He’s in my top 5. So I thinks it’s the whole southern mentality plus the whole ridiculous remarks he made

[@cjlaw228]

Esso definitely look like he has some Caribbean in him

[@tommiemitchell2456]

No apologies needed from the buster he came in the game hatin!

[@flatbush46]

Soul food, soul music, jazz, gospel, blues, rock and roll, langston hughes, james baldwin, the black church, aba basketball, the negro league. Busta needed to watch his mouth

[@ReysBoomBoomRoom11]

The crazy thing about this whole conversation is that black Americans after elementary school, we don't really care where you come from. You were just black to us at that point. All this talk about Black Americans vs this group or that group of diasporans is completely one side, because we've always been too focused on groups actually oppressing us to really feel a way about other black folk outside America. Up until recently we didn't even know other diasporans had any issues with us, all this 'no culture' talk we never paid it any real mind because it was coming from people dressing like, talking like, rapping like us, unless they popped up at some carnival type event and broke out their accents, we didn't know they weren't Black American. We thought it was just jokes. But in the last few years we started actually noticing that it was coming from a place of legit disrespect and we just not going for it. Not here in our home where we fought for black immigrants to even have legal rights to be here, because the US govt was actively excluding y'all.

[@creoleking206]

Let's go....FBA! We named us 💯

[@RAWBZILLAH]

What does FBA mean I just heard that the 1st time here just wanna be enlightened real quick frfr

[@creoleking206]

@@RAWBZILLAH Foundational Black American

[@sky1luv793]

I was at Busta's 1st big show with the Leaders of the New School at the Apollo theater. They were the opening act. I was in high school. I'm 50 years old now. The headliner was Run DMC. The crowd was not going crazy for Run DMC. All the other acts had hot songs on the radio at the time. The rest of the line up was Brand Nubian, Kool Moe Dee, KRS1 (hopped on stage and did a few verses), & Shaba Ranks. If it can happen to Run DMC it can happen to Busta. Run DMC didn't complain the crowd wasn't jumping up and down. They were professional.

[@earlybirdmedia6841]

Black people have music, food, HBCUs, inventors, athletics, fashion, language, art as culture

[@nahmeanson1017]

I don't want to be disrespectful, because I have been fortunate to be around plenty of "on-code" Caribbeans and have come across very few Tethers, where I'm from and in my life in general....but when we joked about my folks being from the south and them being from the Caribbean and what have you it would just be that growing up....a few would feel away at the moment, but tuff.....you shouldn't have laughed when it was my/our tern to get the joked....and for the ones who ever tried to talk fly on some "I'm better than you", then the questions would be asked, why are you here....why not be better where you came from if "your flag" and your people are so "great"....and that's where the Humbling began with the banana boat jokes, before LeBron and them.....and for anyone else that want to feel away and be disrespectful like Busta(who's whole ideology in 5% came from FBA and everything else, the Irony..)..if you're all that, then why did you have to Flee from your 3rd world country if you think you're better.....everything you got here is because of Us....EVERYTHING.....If you're better, show anywhere in History where you've done for Us or anyone else, hell yourselves.....Simple questions.......and then typically that's where the emotions willl come in and that's exactly where it will stay......

[@reginawilliamson6622]

*He Should NOT have made that BOGUS @$$ Statement.... HE'S FINISH!!!!* 🤨

[@ry-daprophet.b1461]

When you talk bad about FBA then you deal with the consequences, FBA put this tether on game, and he talking reckless about us.

[@robertalexander2478]

I’m not supporting any of them!!! As a matter of fact I think I have a KRS video on my fb I need to delete, that lying joker!

[@MT-ey7sm]

Man we aint playing none of that down talking us in Louisiana he should have watched his mouth which obviously he didnt learn to do so he got the reaction he got and nobody really was in his set

[@patrickfalls6819]

I don’t think he took a shot at Louisiana. People come from all over to attend the Essence Festival.

[@MT-ey7sm]

@@patrickfalls6819 he took a shot at Black Americans we Black Americans we ain't playing that disrespect down here maybe other areas or states will but we not

[@gqroney]

jamar really a newyork OG fr

[@brokell2001]

😂 they can't put there hands where there eyes can't see no more!😂

[@Fraziercranium97]

Busta hurt his brand with those comments about FBA.

[@tjones617]

Long before Busta said what he said. People in the south were not really into his music

[@ricol9291]

LJ talk about if the 5 percent nation accepts gay people, because there's talk that Buster is known to get with banti boys and they say he's been doing that for a long time, but you ain't heard it from me 🤣🤣🤣

[@damonclark5742]

"Botty" boy

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

Yeah, I bet they don't F with him in Jamaica either.

[@imsofocused4678]

The 5% was started by an American Black man named Clarence Jowars Smith aka Clarence 13x aka Allah. He should've thought about that.

[@nwmi23]

Everything Lamar said about Busta is spot on. However, we know damn well that Busta won't say ANYTHING about the alphabet community bc he's a part of it 😂

[@TheBassJourney]

Old rock n roll artists get respect for their age. In rap music, people get hated on when they get old

[@carllangley6812]

Good brother, there’s nothing “regular “ about your linage. The miracles our ancestors did during reconstruction were second to none.

[@ctaylor5905]

Jamaicans, Dominicans, Haitians, & Puerto Ricans feel like they're better than Black Americans 🤔😒💯

[@Jerrell_Johnson]

I have no f’n clue or idea why because at the end of the day, they all wind up bringing their snobby asses to live right along side American blacks anyway…stay your asses home!

[@grinchoi1]

lol acting like Busta fans in their 40’s and 50’s are all in wheelchairs or something 😂

[@willie8707]

They damn near are

[@kritikal3172]

I'm 39 and compared to a lot of ppl near my age I'm in pretty good shape and even my back hurt lmao. So it's pretty accurate

[@thecoach11]

@@willie8707 🛑 it

[@truthiscensored]

Well Busta himself is in his early/mid 50's. Most of those 80's and 90's Rappers and their fans are literally middle age to retirement age. Their younger fans may be early 40's. Most people over 40 ain't in the best of health, especially if they played sports as youths/teens...knees all f**** up

[@357say]

@@truthiscensoredEverything you just said is bullsheet 40 year olds don’t need wheelchairs. The young is so dumb.😂😂😂

[@MediaSoundBites]

I agree with Lord Jamal Busta Rhymes need to apologize to the fans he should've performed and kept it moving

[@ThickBlackLineDotNet]

F'd around and found out. Not like us. FBA1

[@BossaNovaSamba]

Busta was mad disrespectful and we not putting up with the disrespect. Period, point blank.

[@parishjames2916]

Nobody else at Essence had that problem

[@TheGammaEffect]

3 Caribbean men speaking on our hip hop like they are in the sauce but they not even close to the source of it

[@christophercondoll5471]

I'm from New Orleans, let me tell you how this works. Essence was originally the bud weiser superfest catered to Frankie Beverly and Maze R&B. Also, while in the Superdome at Essence, there are several superlounges going on throughout the dome while main acts are going on. This is normal for Essence. Busta is just not use to it. Essence, unfortunately, is not catered to Hip-Hop. New Orleans loves Busta Rhymes down here. Please, let's get the narrative right. His rant was clipped up, and distributed in a way to make him look a way in thw media, and he didn't know how to read the room. Essence does have a demo that it started with years ago, but all demos are there. Timing is everything but Essence is not a monolith. He should come back next year. We love you Buss!

[@kimanikeith4693]

You love him speak for yourself Iam from New Orleans

[@christophercondoll5471]

@kimanikeith4693 OK, not your era. You are one of many, not all! Anita Baker fakes New Orleans out time and again. We don't kill her for it down here. We let her get away with it. Again, we are not a monolith. You're entitled to your opinion, and so am I. Don't shoot the messenger, blame Cash Money. Birdman invited him. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@LaronWarReady]

Much respect

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

He should go to Kingston next year. Essence Fest is our culture, which he said we don't have, so...🤷🏽‍♀️

[@christophercondoll5471]

@VoltairesRevenge Didn't know Busta has been talking greezy. I may have to recant my original statement.

[@taharqa332]

Busta is taking all kinds of "L's" these days. Gay rumors, nobody rocking with him at the ESSENCE....Here's the truth; Busta is not the kind of artist to pull in a crowd "UNLESS" they are fans of Busta. He's not UNIVERSALLY loved like say: LL COOL J or BIG DADDY KANE who if either one of these guys came out - the crowd would be packed and showing love...TRUST ME! I'm from New Orleans....Busta a'int at the top of our list of "WE GOTTA SEE THIS GUY ROCK OUT" performers. Fawk him for his comments about HIP-HOPs origins and BLACK CULTURE in America.

[@franknatty4444]

Best guest LJ

[@BDemond]

During wutang And Nas tour couple years back, Busta was on the tour, this was The height of " no culture in America"..I DEFINITELY bounced after Nas n Wu were done performing....

[@albertbinns326]

Hail John Henrik Clarke……

[@twenty4665]

Lord Jamar speaking pure facts as usual 💯

[@Mrgetoff-h7p]

Never seen a group of people that took it upon themselves to be divisive towards other black people. Shit is weak

[@mackl8305]

Huh? where you been? Black people all over the world are divisive. Americans are late to separating themselves from the diaspora

[@truw1600]

@@mackl8305right 😂

[@grantredman2496]

You weak and now that we are staying away from people who are negative towards us.

[@funkybluestuff5519]

LORD JAMAR....Stay keeping it Real !!! 💯💯💯‼️‼️

[@dnel7203]

Low turnout could have simply been a scheduling conflict. He also could have expressed his feelings differently. Disrespectful w all the cursing at an audience that's primarily Black and Female. Who raised you??? As an MC it shouldn't be that difficult.

[@foreverfly3113]

Nah. They Louisana was outside. He had to cancel his tour and jump on Missy’s before that. He lost a lot of his fan base. It was more people at booths than sitting in the arena.

[@josephtanner3929]

BUSTA A SUCKA !!!

[@harriosis]

I was at Essence. The night he performed it was POURING down raining and the crowd probably was running late.

[@revolutionist1945]

The fact is that Busta is an old washed up rapper that don’t nobody wants to hear. It’s all over now take it like a man. Dude been trash never liked him.

[@michaelrafales2782]

Busta has always been authentic, always been helping and spreading love.

[@donelljozeph8935]

Dont go to his shows

[@CoolBeans-re1xu]

Why should Busta apologize if that's how he really feels? He not only said what he said, but Busta actually took his time to break down and explain the nuances of why he believes what he believes? It's time for Busta to delineate from us. Do you. The jig is up. The cos play is up.

[@rhondawitherspoon2758]

Exactly. He had no business being in our face, if that’s how he felt. He just sees us as a paycheck. I’m glad they paid him dust. He should’ve been at a Latino or Caribbean festival. That’s who he’s down for.

[@aaronlittman5397]

Could it be cause of his links to Diddly?

[@maxxastro]

I don't think buster knows the definition of the word CULTURE. If he knew he would know FBA is the culture of the world. Arts, sciences, math, inventions etc. come on man

[@michig911]

We don’t f with busta. He’s a 🤡

[@JT-111]

Busta didn’t belong at the essence fest. We don’t phuk with Busta down here

[@TonyStarks1986]

I understand where Busta was coming from but how he went about it was wrong.

[@tcmyric4978]

Him saying black Americans don’t have a culture is where he messed up

[@mb2024OL]

I was at Essence and it was not due to Busta and I wish he knew. A little before the event start time the rain from the hurricane started and a flood alert was in place. It had traffic backed up for an hour or more. So many of us could not get in there. We would have love to have seen Busta but shit we couldn't get in there.

[@mohmhk]

Busta never said that. This dude is pushing a narrative that's given an indus...plant activity. He spoke of indus...plants the other day. In his case it takes one to know one.

[@PrettyLifeQueensKing]

You sound wild and like a tether.We made it the rest of you participated.🤷🏽‍♂️

[@mohmhk]

​@@PrettyLifeQueensKing What does me supposedly being a tether and "we made..." have to do with what I said?

[@illone10]

Busta did say Jamaica created hip hop, just KZbin it. He didn't say Black Americans didn't have culture, he stayed America has no culture.

[@jsanders9975]

Busta definitely said Jamaicans created hip-hop. He said black Americans don't have culture. I seen the video where he said it. It's no love for him, and I was one of his biggest fans

[@mohmhk]

@@illone10 He said the Caribbean participated in creating the Hip Hop culture. He is not the only one with said point of view. He said America...and we know exactly what group of people he was referring to in that statement, and it's certainly wasn't blk people.

[@kaleefsplaylists2876]

7☀️🌟🌙Lord Jamar,is the only artist,from the culture...speaking out.Salute👑

[@funkythangzprod3446]

Hahaha 😅 Busta Rhymes is being looked at as a down low brotha after certain rumors have risen about his sexuality and people got that image in their mind him on his knees or bending over for music executives SMH

[@LONEWOLF-vl6of]

I happen to luck up and get a temp job working security at a Rolling Stones concert in the ATLANTA I seen the love they show their bands. True Fans.

[@rhondawitherspoon2758]

They don’t disrespect their white base, that’s why.

[@phil4ril]

I saw Busta open up for 50. He doesn't have the same energy and breathe control as before. Its hard to understand him and he just stands still. He doesn't jump around anymore. He talks half his set and he's a boring performer nowdays. Then he did put your hands where my eyes can see, and he put the mic to the crowd like we can rap that fast mumble shit. Then he got mad when the crowd was silent.

[@resistancepublishing]

Busta was in the south. No one checking for Busta in the south. Plus Busta was not the headliner. he came on early plus the southern crowd was there for juvenile. And it was raining hard outside.

[@nux2k]

Essence fest is usually attended to by black grown folks so his age group would have definitely been there. If Frankie Beverly and maze can be there almost every year that tells you something

[@user-hx8zm4fe4q]

Everything has ever had in life is because of FBA then he disrespects and wonder why he got what he got. Then he calls the people who pays his bills MFs . He and others will learn soon enough. It's not timing or age. 50 cents just did a sold out area tour

[@SlickArmor]

He came out dressed extra zesty. For a Busta buttered biscuits. 😅

[@fonzarelly3154]

Tell me when Essence never was crowded.... I'll wait. I was there and most ppl left the floor seats and went to the super lounges, some even booed him.

[@juztjules4883]

They can’t put their hands where they eyes can see. Facts