The Coming

Busta Rhymes

1996

Busta Rhymes warns on The Coming about The End of the world coming with the New Millennium. Filled with doom-laden imagery, it’s a record that fuses New York City street smarts with Jamaican toasting to warn hip-hop heads of a coming apocalypse. With lyrical references to Armageddon and the impending destruction of society, The Coming painted a vivid and unsettling picture of a world on the brink of disaster.

As if reciting from the Book Of Revelation on the album’s opening track, The Coming (Intro) (“There’s only four years left”), and reveling in wanton doom-mongering on its penultimate cut, The Finish Line, Busta delivered an hour-long sermon that was exhilarating and unnerving in equal measure