Busta Rhymes has a long and venerable rapping career spanning more than two decades, but that hasn’t stopped one Polish rapper from calling him out on YouTube for what he says is Busta Rhymes’s career “going down the drain.”
In a video titled “Faster than Busta Rhymes – MC Silk From Poland!,” MC Silk proceeds to rap, rapidly in Polish next to a cow, inside a wooden cabin, and at one point wearing a sausage necklace. The three-minute song even has an interlude with classical instruments and some traditional Polish dancing. (Subtitles in English are provided as video annotations.)
Uploaded onto YouTube on April 8, MC Silk’s video has already gathered more than one million views, with the majority of those coming from the United States, Australia, Poland, and Russia.
MC Silk “used to be a huge fan of Busta in the 90’s,” he writes at the end of his rap shout-out but has grown disillusioned with the American rapper over the years. Specifically, MC Silk accuses Busta of “helping corporations to inject their bullshit into the pop culture and minds of young people, slowing down the [development] of …original artists.” (MC Silk seems particularly upset with Busta Rhymes Christmas collaboration with Justin Beiber.)
“GIVE THIS MAN A FUCKING MEDAL!” wrote Liarman93 in a top comment on YouTube.
Others took the time to defend Busta Rhymes against MC Silk’s accusations. “I agree Busta has taken the money, but it’s evolve or die in America’s music industry,” wrote qotsaandsoadfan1, “if you don’t appeal to the ipod generation then you must hitch a ride with those who currently do.”
MC Silk wrote on YouTube this was the only way he could get his message to Busta Rhymes. But so far, the rapper has yet to publicly acknowledge “the pale kid from Poland, MC Silk” or his now viral polish song.
