Busta Rhymes: Back on My B.S.

Busta Rhymes manages to surpass Walter Murphy’s “A 5th of Beethoven” as the most terrible use of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in recorded history with “Wheel of Fortune,” the lead-off song on Back on My B.S. Unfortunately, this is the cultural high-water mark; from there things devolve. The patently tasteless becomes xenophobic and insulting by the seventh track, “Arab Money.” The album on a whole contains predictable, profanity-laced, auto-tuned rap. At a certain point the list of guest stars itself is distracting, and none of the big names on the roster seem all that intent on making the record any good.

Rating: *

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