In my earliest days of music enjoyment, I was listening to Dookie and "Woo-Hah!!" The two classic pieces of music were my very first moments of fanatical listening, and probably a good indication of how I formed my eclectic taste. Accordingly, this new track (the album is due out May 16) gives me the exact feeling I get listening to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." Busta, Billie Joe, why the fuck do you insist on stealing my childhood from me? About 50% of this track, without exaggeration, is shout-outs to New York hip hop icons; what little rapping there is is incredibly half-assed, light years away from anything even on E.L.E. Also, Swizz Beatz does the hook: why? Fucking stop that. Why am I even bothering posting this at all? It's all about the beat. DJ Scratch (who I believe used to go by the name DJ Skratchator, unless that's a different guy, though he was the Flipmode producer-in-residence) laces Bus-a-Bus with one of the most epically classic, sweeping beats I've heard since "Encore" or something else off The Black Album. These hugely orchestrated sounds are what I truly love about New York hip hop. Though, now that I'm researching it, it turns out this beat is wholly jacked from Diamond D's "I Went For Mine." So fuck this track, entirely.
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