Interview: Busta Rhymes

by Dewey Hammond

This originally appeared in Playboy magazine in September 2003.

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On tour with Jay-Z and 50 Cent in support of his sixth solo album, Busta tries to keep it real during the dog days of summer.

Backstage antics: "I've seen three or four girls puttin' it on one dude. You know, a lot of f******, a lot of s******. All that. But I don't really gamble with random chicks the way I used to. Them b*tches get you in trouble."

Getting high: "I gotta roll my own blunts. Other people don't roll it the way I like to smoke it."

His work ethic: "This music shit is something I love, so I ain't got no problem giving it 95 percent of my time. Success feels cool. You get to shut a lot of mouths that spoke against your movement."

The Oval Office: "I just want to see the right person there for a change. There's a difference between a president and the right president. It could be a Chinese man."

On privacy: "If y'all don't already know about it, that means it ain't none of y'alls business."