Get Busy

"Get Busy" is a 2003 dancehall song by Jamaican dancehall reggae toaster Sean Paul, from his album Dutty Rock. The song was one of the many hits from the jumpy handclap riddim known as the Diwali Riddim, produced by then-newcomer Steven "Lenky" Marsden, and was the only song that never made the "Diwali" rhythm album on Greensleeves Records as it was more than likely a late entry.

Paul described it as "...mainly a party song. It's not all about smoking weed." "Get Busy" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks from 10 May 2003, preceded by "In Da Club" by 50 Cent and replaced by "21 Questions" by 50 Cent featuring Nate Dogg. It was performed live on Saturday Night Live in May 2003.

Remix

The official remix, "Get Busy (Clap Your Hands Now Remix)", features rapper Fatman Scoop and The Crooklyn Clan, the remix uses the instrumental of Sean Paul's previous single,"Gimme the Light", on the near end of the song.

Music video

The video for "Get Busy" (directed by Little X) was shot in Woodbridge, Ontario, and released in February 2003. The video was also nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Dance Video and Best New Artist in 2003. At the end of the video Paul's brother Jason introduces a song, noting it as a brand new single, and Paul then sings part of "Like Glue". Kardinal Offishall makes a cameo appearance in the video.

Mr. Lee (rapper)

Mr. Lee (born Leroy Haggard Jr. in 1968), sometimes credited as Lee Haggard or Mr. Lee & Kompany, is an American DJ, producer and hip-house rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He is known in the Chicago house music scene as one of the pioneers who brought hip hop to the genre, which would later be coined as hip house.

Mr. Lee charted three times on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Get Busy" (#2, 1989), "Pump That Body" (#1, 1990) and "Get Off" (#32, 1992). His tracks "Pump Up London" (#64, 1988) and "Get Busy" (#41, 1989) featured in the UK Singles Chart. Mr. Lee released two albums, Get Busy in 1990 and I Wanna Rock Right Now in 1992.

Discography

Albums

  • Get Busy (1990)
  • I Wanna Rock Right Now (1992)
  • Singles

    See also

  • List of number-one dance hits (United States)
  • List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
  • References

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Get Busy

    by: Marco Polo

    [Verse 1:]
    Ladies and gentlemen, you ain't gotta stay in your element
    My staff chuckles while brass knuckles scraping your melanin
    You're claiming it was an accident, pay me the settlement
    You saying you wasn't having it, I gave it, you yelling, "Quit! "
    Oh, it's on the low though? I stuff cigars with stuff from jars
    Above the stars?
    I shoot my load ten feet and they asking if I ever thought I'd come this far
    Yeah I knew I'd do it, the question is who was stupid to mess with this
    Who was losing a second, this music scooped?
    To his crew and the message is, "Don't push me."
    You're so pussy that you're oozing with estrogen
    Straightjacket tightened by my psycho ward
    And he straight up forgot to lace up my Michael Jordans
    I don't write no chorus, no alter ego writes those for us
    Fuck a tree dog, I like whole forests
    I've got the flows to toast most approachers
    And got the? so foes don't approach us
    Nah?, brough the shotty and the case, check it
    Look it, we'll make em drop shells quicker than Jay records
    And the crowd's mine, I'll outline your hood
    I'm outside with about nine guys it's good
    While you peasants cry by my foot?
    But that's saying they're trying to get outshined like Suge
    Look, you pussies either roll eight on one
    Trying to jump me but still can't, they hate on son
    They'll get their money jacked, see me in the span of a few years
    Do shit till they see me off? and a few beers
    ? Big L, Big Pun, and Biggie, with an attitude like Jay so if you come and get me
    There'll be eight people with a spiked bat and a gun to kill me
    And if I got you for money wait until I'm drunk to hit me, pussy
    Matter fact, you ain't even a pussy
    You're what bleeds when the summer's eve cleaning the pussy
    C.O.P. you freestyle to see no fee, I am the C.O.
    Bringing it to you COD, cash on delivery, and no one can do it better, shit
    I'm the D-O-C with OCD, spit heat like a Creole feast
    That's why they be on beats, and stick to the point, I don't see my own feet
    [Chorus:]
    I can introduce you to your maker
    You got a problem with me homeboy, step to me
    Strap you down and slap you round
    Yeah I said it
    [Verse 2:]
    Star sprinter, run any track flash above par?
    Glue sniffer, jacking coke like a bartender
    Punchlines till your bar's tender so let's?
    And we're shooting stars like Hayley's Comet denting car fenders
    My car's bouncing, got hydraulics and metal toys
    Yours rides mind's playing tricks like the Ghetto Boyz
    Why am I lying? I ain't got the car and I'm unemployed
    My lunch during the day and on it I don't have butter?
    No pot to piss in or to cop a squat and drop my shit in
    Radio off so I can listen to my couch?
    I can sell to?
    It's simple waking up with a naked slut in my boxers
    Listen, hip hop is getting out of control
    Every power that flows is gangster till the powder's out of his nose
    Man in '95 I thought music was losing it's touch
    Compared to now it was a golden era, who would've thought?
    Now this shit is full of gimmicks, energy, cynics, and critics
    Hate one minute then the next wanna finish your sentence
    This fake game makes we want to take names
    With the chrome in hand and take aim like I own this, man
    But I'm not trying to spring life beneath dirt
    Or a Shyne and C-Murder
    I grind to these words
    In the mind of each person populating earth
    Cop the tape and stop the hatin jerk




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