Hip-Hop star Busta Rhymes has taken a step towards independence via a new worldwide deal with independent publisher Kobalt Music Group.

 According to the terms of the deal, Kobalt will administer 27 of Busta Rhymes tracks, including all songs on Back on My B.S., which contained the hit single “Arab Money.”

 In July of 2010, Kobalt will begin administering over 150 of Rhymes tracks, which are currently being handled by Warner Chappell.

 ”We are thrilled to conclude this deal with Busta Rhymes which also includes synch licensing and creative services for film, TV, games, ringtones and other media,” said Willard Ahdritz, CEO and Founder of Kobalt. “He is truly one of the most influential artists in Hip-Hop history and we look forward to working closely with him.”

 Busta Rhymes, born Trevor Smith, started his career as a member of the pioneering Hip-Hop group Leaders of the New School in 1989.

In 1996 Busta Rhymes began a successful solo career on the strength of his breakout single “Woo Hah!! Got You In All In Check,” taken from the album The Coming.

 He has enjoyed numerous hit singles like “It‘s A Party” featuring Zhane, “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See,” “Gimme Some More,” “Break Ya Neck,” “What’s It Gonna Be” featuring Janet Jackson “Make It Clap,” “Touch It,” “I Love My B**ch” and numerous others.

 ”We chose Kobalt not only for their competitive deal structure and fully transparent, online accounting system, but also because the team at Kobalt is knowledgeable, experienced and extremely involved and aggressive — all the key elements we were looking for in our publisher. We’re very happy to be here,” added Mona Scott-Young, manager of Busta Rhymes.

 Busta Rhymes’ latest album Back On My B.S. debuted at #5 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart upon its release in May of 2009.

This is the remix to “Kill Dem” from Busta Rhymes, the original is on Busta’s latest album “Back On My B.S.”,  but this one just dropped today and it’s a kool joint featuring Mavado and Bounty Killer.

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UP CLOSE & PERSONAL - JOE BUDDEN from Executive Nick on Vimeo.

In the 1st Episode of the Up Close & Personal series Created & Directed by Executive Nick, Joe Budden sits down with Nick and gives us his views on rival Mc’s.

Directed & Interviewed by : Executive Nick
Edited by : Frederick Orozco
Filmed Exclusively at Fight Klub Studios

Special Thanks to Minya Oh & the staff at missinfo.tv

In this exclusive interview done by Executive Nick, Joe Budden speaks on the faith he has as a rapper and being considered the “bad guy” of rap. Responds to Method Man and Busta Rhymes about the comments they made on the radio towards him. Now this is a very intresting interview, as you can see Joe Budden is not done and says he has a response to a certain rapper that would make him put his hands on Jump-Off Joey. I can see that this is getting very intresting as thier is a Part 2 coming real soon!!! WaLL-DoE?

Eminem remains on top of the billboard charts for two consecutive weeks with his latest album Relapse. After his peformance and controversial conflict at the 2009 MTV Movie awards Em managed to sell around 211,000 copies this week, as he gets closer to platnuim status. Method Man and Redman’s latest album Blackout 2, sold an approximate 20,ooo units and came in at #18 in the charts. In its second week,  Busta Rhymes latest effort  ”Back on my BS” sells around 17,000 copies bringing is approximate total to 76,000. Camron and Jadakiss continue to sell with thier latest albums, after his long hiatus from the game Camron sells close to 8,000 copies with “Crime Pays” and his total units sold in four weeks 66,000 and Jadakiss sells about 7,800 copies for the week with his album “The Last Kiss” close to the 300,000  mark.