The Coming＜Red Effect Vinyl＞

バスタ・ライムスのデビュー・アルバム『THE COMING』の2LPがRED EFFECT COLORED VINYLで登場!!

アルバムでは、イージー・モー・ビー、DJスクラッチ、Q・ティップ、J・ディラらがビート/トラックを手掛けている。1996年のBillboard Hot 100チャートで8位となったデビュー・シングル「Woo Hah!! (Got You All in Check)」をはじめ、「Everything Remains Raw」、「Abandon Ship」、「Still Shining」、「Ill Vibe」といった曲はどれも『The Coming』の傑出したトラックとして際立っている。1997年のグラミー賞では最優秀ラップ・ソロ・パフォーマンスにノミネートされ、バスタ・ライムスは『The Coming』によって批評的にも商業的にも成功を収めた。

Busta Rhymes delivered his debut album, The Coming, three years after the Leaders of the New School unofficially disbanded, and it reflects the change in hip-hop between 1993 and 1996. The Coming is indebted to the slow, spare, and quietly menacing funk and soundscapes of the Wu-Tang Clan -- in fact, Ol' Dirty Bastard appears on one of the album's most infectious tracks, the single "Woo Ha!! Got You All in Check." Busta Rhymes, like Ol' Dirty, is a surreal, inspired rapper, but his skills are on a whole different level. Though his talents were evident on the Leaders of the New School records, Busta Rhymes has never had such an impressive showcase for his rhymes as he does on The Coming. Busta doesn't have a deep message in his raps, but he twists words and phrases around with an insane, invigorating flair. Like many hip-hop albums of the mid-'90s, The Coming is padded with too much material, but Busta Rhymes' brilliant raps keep the record from sinking during its monotonous passages. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine