This album is not getting the promotion it deserves but is definelty worth every Busta Rhyme fan's attention. Once again he laid us out with lots of tracks with a few filler ones in between. One thing about Busta Rhymes that makes him my favortie is he has a style all his own and is always through with his lyrics and creativity. With this one he goes in a slightly different direction than "Geneis" but follows that busta formula with the funny skits and "off the wall" beats. So unto the tracks.....whats good?

*It aint safe no more
*What do you do when your branded? -- intresting song and beat...tight!
*Call the Ambulance -- the neptunes help to blaze this track once again.
*What up?
*Turn me up some
*Make it Clap
*I know what you want -- Nice collabo with mariah.
*Riot
*Together
*The Struggle will be lost
*Make it Clap Remix -- Sean paul makes it so much better.

Overall Busta came strong once again but the one thing keeping me from giving him more stars is the filler. If it wasent for some songs he woudl have 5 stars easy. Overall it is still worth hip-hop fans and busta fans money.

get it!!

1.(Intro) - A funny intro, kind of hard to hear the so called "kid."

2.(It Ain't Safe No More) - The lyrics are superb, the beat will have to take some getting used to. 3/5

3.(What Can You Do When Your Branded) - Good lyrics, good chorus, good beat. 5/5

4.(Call the Ambulance) - The beat is something your can bob your head too, good flows by Busta and other guy, I don't know who he is. 5/5

5.(We Goin to Do It to Ya) - Good beat, good flows, good chorus.
5/5

6.(What Up) - Hmm....., this one here has a beat that you would get tired of, even though it's lets than 3 minutes, but again Busta has good lyrics, bad beat, ok chorus. 2.5/5

7.(Turn Me Up Some) - Mellow beat, has Redman in the background, but Busta raps in an annoying way, you might get tired of it, but agian, good lyrics, an ok beat, chorus hmmm..... 2.5/5

8.(Make It Clap) - I dont even need to expalin this, good song, Spliff Star shuts this s**t down also. 5/5

9.(Take It Off Part 2) - If your like me, then you will also be tired of a lot of rappers using "Indian" style beats, but it's tight, tight lyrics, tight song. 3.5/5

10.(Taste It) - Good beat, kind of a vulgar song, but who cares,
good lyrics, good beat. 4.5/5

11.(Hey Ladies) - This song is also one of the best, good beat, excellent lyrics, a chorus that'll get stuck in your head, good song. 5/5

12.(I Know What You Want) - Some guys might think this is one of the weakest songs on here, buts it's not. It's a pretty good song features the Flipmode Squad and Mariah Carey, good beat, good lyrics, good song. 4.5/5

13.(Riot) - This song was a let down, the name makes you think of something wild and crazy, but it's not, beat is boo-boo, lyrics help this song a lot. 2.5/5

14.(Hop) - This song is a excellent, I think it should be his next single, it does wanna make you wanna hop, good beat, good lyrics, good song. 5/5

15.(Together) - This song is tight, not bad, not the best, but one you could listen too. 3.5/5

16.(Struttin Like a G.O.D.) - This beat is sweet as hell, the lyirics are good, just a plain good song. 4/5

17.(Struggle Will Be Lost) - The chorus is way too long and tedious, but the the beat is not that bad, lyrics again help this song. 3.5/5

18.(Till It's Gone) - Well this is just me, I don't like songs about rappers and other artists singing about their early life (Except Eminem, he does it the best), but this beat is ugh, lyrics can't help it, it is probably the worst song on here.
1/5

19.(Make I Clap Remix) - This is just as good as the first, except Sean Paul f**ked this s**t up, if he was only in the chorus it would have been better than the first, but nooooo, he had to have a verse to "rap" his lyrics you can't understand. But again Spliff Star, in my opinion, did better in this one than the original. 5/5

All in all Busta Rhymes has another platinum CD coming, go and buy this today, it is worth your precious time and money.

I've read some of the reviews on this album. And sorry, but i DISAGREE.

Firstly; I am a huge Busta fan. I aint gonna sit here and rap on bout how many albums i have or how much irrelevant information i have about him. The fact is this album is a big STEP BACK from his last album: Genesis.

There is definately something missing in the production of this album. It feels RUSHED. so many of the tracks could have been huge had there been a little extra bass, a better vocal, a tighter beat, etc. Never has a rapper of such quality been made to look so ordinary by an album.

It has its moments. 'Make it clap' will be tearing up clubs for a long time. As will 'I know what you want', which is a great track featuring Mariah Carey. 'Hop' and 'Hey Ladies' are also good tunes. But the rest, i am sorry to say, is well BELOW BUSTAS STANDARDS.

I am totally open to other peoples views on music, and i can understand when some1 disagrees with me. Thats their opinion.

But how can you listen to this album and not be disapointed! The Beats are average and BASIC! Listen to tracks 2, 5, 7, 10, 13 and 16. listen to Genesis. Now tell me these beats aint fraud!

I aint no producer, but compare this album to the other new hip hop albums out. eg. Eveolution, paid tha cost to be da bo$$, God's Son, under construction, get rich or die trying, etc. This album can't step to any of these albums. Busta should be destroyin these acts man. He is way better than this. I know Busta is known for breaking boundaries, but DIFFERENT AINT ALWAYS A GOOD THING.

What makes this album such a letdown is the fact that it had so much potential. It was gonna send out a warning to the hip hop world- 'it aint safe no more'. 2 b honest, i am much more convinced when Snoop Dogg says on his new album 'I aint takin' no orders no more'. At least the quality of his album backs him up.

The album gets 1 star for the few tunes that were up 2 Bustas standards. And it gets a second star cos i know he can still spit. Busta is one of the greatest rappers of all time. The quality of his rapping on the album is still high. But the production is so poor that whatever Busta does on the mic is irrelevant.

If the album is to go platinum, it'll be cos of the name on the package. If it was some1 else, it wouldnt make s%£t.

My advice- clearly the album is popular judging by what peeps r saying on the site. But listen to the whole album before you buy. I wish I had.

It's disappointing to report, but, for possibly the first time in his career, Trevor "Busta Rhymes" Smith might have overstepped his mark.

Less than a year since his first record for J, 'Genesis', posited a rebirth, 'It Ain't Safe No More' feels rushed. Busta's sixth LP since his pioneering but under appreciated group Leaders of the New School broke up doesn't start where 'Genesis' left off. Rather, Busta seems to be taking some steps backwards.

The constant round of cameo appearances he made in the dying days of his relationship with Elektra had seemed to dilute his larger-than-life essence, commodifying and de-valuing a vocalist whose talents always seemed more suited to the short sharp shock of singles than the longer-form hard work of albums. But 'Genesis', arguably his best LP, changed all that, and saw Busta focussing on his strengths - an angular, spittle-flecked flow, and an immaculate choice in beats that would stretch him, and hip hop itself.

By contrast, 'It Ain't Safe No More', despite the title, seems to be Busta on autopilot, operating at well within his own considerable parameters. The Gothic scores and baroque flourishes that flesh out 'What Do You Do When You're Branded' are tricks he's used in the past; 'We Goin' To Do It To Ya' is a retread of the genuinely different, next-level 'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See', while 'Taste It' cribs from the Knight Rider-sampling 'Turn It Up/Fire It Up'. Where the production is more conventional, Busta begins to sound like the competition, notably Redman on the partially effective title track.

That said, this is a far from bad LP. But Busta is becoming a hostage to his own fortune, a victim of his own success. The fact that experimental, abstract beats have become so popular is partly down to him, but now that everybody's doing it, he has to do it more, or better, or different. Whatever, it means that an OK album just isn't good enough any more.

Ever since I heard him rap on "Case Of The PTA" back in his Leaders Of The New School days, I knew that Busta Rhymes was going to have a solo career. Everytime you heard a LONS song you were awaiting to hear what Busta would come up with next. He was hungry and he was trying to come up with innovative concepts to make him different from every other rapper than was in the game. His first solo CD, "The Coming" was unlike any other rap CD that you had heard at the time. Songs like "Woo Hah (Got You All In Check)", "Everything Remains Raw", "Ill Vibe" w/Q Tip and the memorable "Flipmode Squad Vs Def Squad" featuring Jamal, Redman, Keith Murray, Rampage, and the exiled Lord Have Mercy gave Bust Rhymes a fresh entry into the world of hip hop without LONS. On his next CD, "When Disaster Strikes" Busta created his most popular song of all time with "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See". Although he did make "It's A Party" with Zhane on his 1st CD, this was his first true anthem for the ladies and the clubs. On Busta's 3rd CD, "E.L.E.", Busta in an eerie way basically predicted what would eventually happen on 9/11/01. However, inbetween this concept Busta was still able to create the jams for the ladies and the clubs. "What's It Gonna Be" with Janet Jackson made "E.L.E" Busta's best selling CD of all time. However, his 4th release, "Anarchy" made Busta take a step backward. The material seemed rushed and although the CD was pretty good, it didn't compare with the previous 3 Busta CDs. This lead Busta to want to make a new start and he did so by signing with Clive Davis and J Records. His 1st release would be "Genesis". While this was far from Busta's best CD, the enlisting of some top notch producers like Dr. Dre, The Neptunes, Just Blaze and others gave Busta just the right buzz he needed to reclaim a top spot in the game, especially when the Neptunes produced remix of "Pass The Courvosier" was released with P Diddy & Pharrell. You would think this would be a good sign of things to come, but unfortunately this is not the case. First of all, "It Ain't Safe No More" was released basically a year later after "Genesis" which is too soon in my opinion. If your last CD was saved by a remix as far as sales are concerned, then you need to spend more time trying to create a new CD. The title track is actually the best song in my opinion. It creates a theme and a concept for a CD and while this song my take awhile to grow on true Busta fans, this definitely works for me. From there on, you get a heavy dose of the new and improved "Party" Busta, as I call him. "We Goin' To Do It To Ya", "Make It Clap", "Take It Off Part 2", "Taste It", Hey Ladies" and "I Know What You Want", featuring an out of place Mariah Carey on the vocals and Busta himself trying to sing like Ja Rule. Busta has overused the theme ladies and gentlemen. He's passed the courvosier, taken it off twice and made it clap twice if you include the version with Sean Paul. It seems to me that Busta is taking the easy way out and he no longer thrives for that creativity that once made him one of hip hop's best. Now don't get me wrong there are some songs that I enjoy on "It Ain't Safe No More" other than the title track: "What Do You Do When You're Branded" produced by DJ Scratch, takes you back to his 1st solo CD and will remind you of the times when Busta and Rampage made "Abandon Ship". The lone Neptunes contribution "Call The Ambulance" wins with me because of the beat and the fact that Busta and Rampage collaborate real well on the track, but the song lacks creativity. "Call an ambulance, come and pick up your people". I am sure Busta could have thought of something better than that. The Megahertz' produced "We Goin'To Do It To Ya" seems like something the Ewoks would dance to but the off balance track will still put you in the mode of "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See", which is a good thing. "Till It's Gone" has Busta reminiscing on the days when he was first starting to come up in the rap game. The Tru Master track and Busta's pure honesty on the track also makes this one a winner. Overall, this is not a wack CD, "It Ain't Safe No More" is just average because 1) you know Busta can do better and 2) you know that Busta can be more creative than this. The listener will be disappointed because at one moment he's telling you that God is still coming back (It Ain't Safe No More) and then the next moment he is trying to rap with a nasal sounding voice (Turn Me Up Some), where he wastes a nice beat by Dilla and a tight Redman sample. Busta I know you can do better and I will continue to support you but when I can listen to your highly creative tracks like your contributions on the original "Scenario", the remix to "Scenario", and "Everybody Rise to making a CD full of party tracks and taking old ODB quotes and turning them to a chorus on "Taste It", I have to start to wonder what you are thinking. We expect better from you Busta Rhymes. I understand that internet piracy and pressure to sell units has changed the way that some labels and hip hop artists think, but this shouldn't take away from the creativity of the artist.

James' Top 5

1) It Ain't Safe No More w/Meka
2) What Do You Do When You're Branded

3) Till It's Gone
4) Call The Ambulance
5) We Goin' To Do It To Ya