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At this point, Busta is starting to make the back-and-forth between his rap orchestra more complex: sometimes the one goes first, sometimes it's the other, sometimes one completes the other's line, and on and on and on it goes!īusta starts to open up the possibilities for this 2-rapper set-up between 0:46 and 0:57. The first and third time, it's our backup Busta doing the rapper the second time, it's our rapper Busta. What would make any backpacker ever wanna break their neck to that? Reading how repetitive these lines are, you would want to agree with those neanderthals who say rap isn't real music, maybe.maybe.īut the truth is that these lines aren't repetitive at all, because it's not the same Busta Rhymes rapping the words "Come on" each time. I mean, just read the lyrics: for a good 3 seconds, Busta is just repeating the words "Come on!" again and again. It happens at 0:46, on the words "Come on, come on, come on!" Here's the music for this part again: Immediately after that opening bar, Busta runs his two-pony act back by doubling-down on it. But those 3 syllables - "Come here, ma" - actually do help us to unlock how the rest of the song works musically, because Busta keeps switching back and forth between his rapper-foreground and backup-ground level of music.over. Maybe I'm making this up maybe this is just chance, or a coincidence. Just like we know a piano isn't a kazoo because it can play multiple sounds at one time, or a flute isn't a bass guitar because its pitch is so much higher, we know that the Busta rapper is a different instrument from the Busta backup because they don't sound anything like each other. On the other hand, the backup Busta is panned wide left and wide right, it's louder, it's slower, and it has multiple layers of vocals. The rapper-Busta is in the center he's (relatively) quieter, and quicker and he has just one layer of vocals. We should hear the top, foreground one - the "rapper" one - as being separate from the bottom, background one - the "backup" one - for a few reasons. Even if you don't read music, that's okay, because I'll break it down for you:įollowing along, you can see that Busta has set up two levels of music: one in the foreground, and one in the background. The top line is the Busta-rapper that's in the front, and the bottom line is the Busta-backup that's in the background. To visualize what's happening, check out the transcription of this part of the song. They're also doubled many times, so that it sound like a whole choir of Bustas whispering "Come here, ma."But that Busta rapper in the front? He's actually dead-center, mixed way more quietly, and there's just one of him. It happens at 0:35 in the song, when Busta raps the words "Come here, ma," right after spilling, "Tell me what you really want to do." We know that the words "Come here ma" come from their own separate Busta instrument, and aren't just a continuation of the words "Tell me what you really want to do," because of how they're placed in your headphones: they're super loud, and panned out to the far left and far right. In the first bar of the first verse, Busta-the-rapper introduces us to his good friend behind him in the background: we'll call him Busta the backup. And we hear the two Bustas on this song, right from the very start of verse 1. There are actually 2 Bustas on this song, and their back-and-forth interplay is exactly what makes Busta rap's sound fresh and new, even 20 years after this song came out. That's because, if you thought that there was just one Busta Rhymes rapping on this song.well, you'd be wrong. But outside of all those fast fireworks (which we'll get to later), this song is a perfect example of how rappers' are at the forefront of music today. Dre's love of simple drum beats under mazy minor scales perfectly supports Busta's ultra-quick, super-complex flow on this song. Dre is on the beat, and "Break Ya Neck" is no different. The answer lies in a few musical techniques that the song "Break Ya Neck" shows off braggadociously: vocal layering, and call-and-response musical formats.Īny true Busta head knows that Bussa Bus always shows up most when his old friend Dr. But how is this possible, when humans can only speak one-word at a time?

From "Break Ya Neck"to "Get You Some," and from "Truck Volume" to "Tear Da Roof Off," Busta always makes his voice way more than a voice: he makes it an orchestra - a diverse group of complementary sounds that together create something greater than the sum of their parts.