About “Calm Down”

Busta Rhymes and Eminem come together for “Calm Down,” their third collaboration after their first in 2006 on Busta’s “I’ll Hurt You” and second later that year on Busta’s “Touch It (Remix 2.0).” In an interview with Rolling Stone, Busta described the track:

It’s a bare bones hip-hop, fundamental, boom-bap record. It’s samples, hard kicks, hard snares and a whole lot of fucking bars of rapping with both metaphors and punchlines. It’s a friendly reminder to today’s generation of what this whole thing is based on.

Busta went in-depth with HipHopDX and Complex about the process of making the song, which he says initially was a solo record but he wanted Eminem on the track, leading to approximately seven months of waiting and back-and-forth adjustments before the song was completed.

The trailer for “Calm Down”:



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