Busta Rhymes recalls making Gucci Mane jump on a New York-style beat on "Make It Look Easy."
Back in August, Busta Rhymes surprised his fans by linking up with Gucci Mane for the song "Make It Look Easy" off his Year of the Dragon album. Now, in a recent editorial for SOHH, Bussa Bus explains his decision to collaborate with the Atlanta emcee.
Busta recalled that after having seen many New York artists jump on
Southern-style productions in the past years, he wanted to flip the
script and make a Southern rapper tackle an East Coast beat. With that
concept in mind, Busta immediately looked to Gucci to join him on the
record.
"My thing is we've heard a lot of artists jump on Southern
productions and I thought it would be interesting if we have a South
artist jump on a classic New York production," he explained. "Gucci Mane
is a dope motherfucker to me. I can speak from a personal experience
because I've seen the brother work in the studio. I've seen how hard he
works and you can go to a Gucci Mane concert and see how talented this
artist is. Getting with Gucci fit with what I was trying to do with this
record. I wanted to hear him rock on a record like that. I felt it
would be something that's interesting, entertaining and intelligent for
us at the same time because that's what we're supposed to do. We're
supposed to challenge each other to bring out the best in each other."
