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Skip to main content Busta Rhymes at The Daily Front Row’s 12th Annual Fashion Media Awards held at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center on September 12, 2025 in New York, New York. John Nacion Trending on Billboard Busta Rhymes paid homage to his longtime friend D’Angelo with a new song called “Magic,” which finds Busta rapping over the R&B singer’s 2000 track “One Mo’Gin.” Busta Rhymes Countersues Ex-Assistant for ‘Fabricating’ Assault Lawsuit D’Angelo’s Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits Busta Rhymes Has Sage Advice For Young Rappers On Their Way Up: ‘Think About What Your Contribution Should Be’ In an interview with OkayPlayer, Busta Rhymes spoke lovingly about his longtime friend, and said they originally met through Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad while at a Tribe Called Quest studio session back in 1990. “It wasn’t too far from around the timeframe that we were working on ‘Scenario,'” Busta said. “When I met him, it was just a good, beautiful energy with the bro. D’Angelo’s personality speaks volumes because of how reserved he was. When it was time for him to actually speak – when you heard him sing or play the keyboard — it magnified the polar opposite of how quiet he was.” After elaborating on their unbelievable kinship, he said knowing D’Angelo for 34 years was an unbelievable experience. “I feel like the Earth shifted when D came to do music. He was the embodiment of some s—t that was a complete balance of what our ancestors created, to where he took it,” the rapper said. “There’s nothing under the sun that hasn’t already been done. But it’s a whole other thing to make it your own and combine what has already been done with what hasn’t been done yet. There have been a lot of soulful artists who played and sang that came before him and came after him. But the impact was nowhere near the level that he was able to do it on just three albums across 34 years.” D’Angelo died on Oct. 14 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer, with artists continuing to come out in support of the late singer. Check out Busta Rhymes new song “Magic” below: Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Want to know what everyone in the music business is talking about? Get in the know on Visit Billboard Pro for music business news Billboard is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Billboard Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Powered by WordPress.com VIP optional screen reader Manage Account Billboard Hot 100™ Billboard 200™ Hits Of The World™ Songs Of The Summer Year-End Charts Decade-End Charts R&B/Hip-Hop Business News Record Labels View All Pro Songwriters & Producers Artist Index Royalty Calculator Market Watch Industry Events Calendar Billboard Español Cultura y Entretenimiento Crossword Puzzle GET ACCESS TODAY
