Word: busta
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rather than waiting around for the temperamental rapper, I exploited my early arrival and claimed my preferred spot—front row and center. Once Busta arrived on the stage, I realized it was going to be a long night: the myriad elbows attached to gyrating ladies started banging against my arm. In their excitement, female fans pressed their breasts against my back (a gay man’s nightmare) and left me wishing I had parked it in the back...
...somehow managed to get Busta’s sidekick to throw her his towel. As she wiped the sweat off of her body with his sweaty towel, I broke for the door determined to conduct my damn interview. Alas, by the time I made it out of the crowd, Busta had disappeared into the Hip Hop sunset...
...final attempt to force myself upon celebrity, I decided to 411 “The Palace”—the place Busta announced he was heading at the concert’s end. Did anyone answer? Of course not. Rather than getting discouraged, I 411-ed Rio Club, where—according to 98.5 FM advertisements—Busta was headed to “chill.” The club wasn’t listed. Go figure...
...corporate sponsorship can’t be found—which is unlikely. Other events, like the unpopular yet enduring Fallfest, which cost $11,000 last year, remain as edifices to the council’s disconnect with students. And some projects, though well-attended, like the recent Busta Rhymes concert (2,700 attendees), require massive expenditures—a total of $40,000 from the council and other sources...
...council does get the money it seeks, nothing revolutionary is scheduled. Instead of one council-funded hypnotist show, there will be two. Busta Rhymes might be displaced by an artist still enjoying the limelight. Stand-up comedy routines would grace Fallfest...