Busta Rhymes Pays Tribute to D’Angelo With New Song ‘Magic’
Busta Rhymes paid homage to his longtime friend D’Angelo with a new song called “Magic,” which finds Busta rapping over the R&B singer’s 2000 track “One Mo’Gin.”
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In an interview with OkayPlayer, Busta Rhymes spoke lovingly about his longtime friend, and said they originally met through Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad while at a Tribe Called Quest studio session back in 1990.
“It wasn’t too far from around the timeframe that we were working on ‘Scenario,’” Busta said. “When I met him, it was just a good, beautiful energy with the bro. D’Angelo’s personality speaks volumes because of how reserved he was. When it was time for him to actually speak – when you heard him sing or play the keyboard — it magnified the polar opposite of how quiet he was.”
After elaborating on their unbelievable kinship, he said knowing D’Angelo for 34 years was an unbelievable experience.
“I feel like the Earth shifted when D came to do music. He was the embodiment of some s—t that was a complete balance of what our ancestors created, to where he took it,” the rapper said. “There’s nothing under the sun that hasn’t already been done. But it’s a whole other thing to make it your own and combine what has already been done with what hasn’t been done yet. There have been a lot of soulful artists who played and sang that came before him and came after him. But the impact was nowhere near the level that he was able to do it on just three albums across 34 years.”
D’Angelo died on Oct. 14 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer, with artists continuing to come out in support of the late singer.
Check out Busta Rhymes new song “Magic” below:
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