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Track Listing
1. Intro-There's Only One Year Left!!!
2. Everybody Rise
3. Where We Are About to Take It
4. Extinction Level Event (The Song of Salvation)
5. Tear da Roof Off
6. Against All Odds - (featuring The Flipmode Squad)
7. Just Give It to Me Raw
8. Do It to Death
9. Keepin It Tight
10. Gimme Some More
11. Iz They Wildin Wit Us & Gettin Rowdy Wit Us? - (featuring Mystikal)
12. Party Is Goin' on Over Here
13. Do the Bus a Bus
14. Take It Off
15. What's It Gonna Be?! - (featuring Janet Jackson)
16. Hot Shit Makin' Ya Bounce
17. What the Fuck You Want!!
18. This Means War!! - (featuring Ozzy Osbourne)
19. Burial Song, The (Outro)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Busta Rhymes, Flipmode Squad, Jay-Z, Mystikal (rap vocals); Ozzy Osbourne (vocals); Darrell Delite Allamby (various instruments); Kenny Dickerson (percussion); Delite, Kenny Flav (programming); Janet Jackson, Antoinette Roberson (background vocals).
The Lordz Of Brooklyn: Adam McLeer, Joe Conoscenti, Eric Anderson, Adam Meyer (various intruments).
Producers include: Busta Rhymes, Rockwilder, Da Beatminerz, DJ Scratch, Tony Touch.
E.L.E. (THE FINAL WORLD FRONT) was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. "Gimme Some More" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. "What's It Gonna Be?!" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By Duo Or Group.
Personnel: Busta Rhymes, Flipmode Squad, Jay-Z, Mystikal (rap vocals); Ozzy Osbourne (vocals); Darrell Delite Allamby (various instruments); Kenny Dickerson (percussion); Delite, Kenny Flav (programming); Janet Jackson, Antoinette Roberson (background vocals).
The Lordz Of Brooklyn: Adam McLeer, Joe Conoscenti, Eric Anderson, Adam Meyer (various instruments).
Producers include: Busta Rhymes, Rockwilder, D.J. Scratch, Nottz, Swizz Beatz.
Engineers include: Vinny Nicoletti, Robert Burnette, Ben Arrindell.
E.L.E. (THE FINAL WORLD FRONT) was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. "Gimme Some More" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. "What's It Gonna Be?!" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By Duo Or Group.
The full title of this album, EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT, gives one a good idea of the themes contained herein. The album kicks off with a spoken word piece setting a scene of apocalypse and the end of civilization as we know it. This rather fatalistic prediction is given life on the title tune, but many of the songs here are concerned with less weighty topics. Janet Jackson guests on the propulsive, sexy "What's It Gonna Be," a tune with more carnal concerns. Ozzy Osbourne even turns up for the rallying battle cry of "This Means War!," which is based around Black Sabbath's classic "Iron Man." As always, Busta knocks out some impressively tongue-twisting rhymes over unpredictable, off-kilter beats, in his patented, unrelenting style. Both fearsome and fun, E.L.E. is prime Busta.
Industry Reviews
3 1/2 (out of 5) ... Hard, gut-punching beats anchor the disc. Electro bleeps, computer-game effects, a harpsichord, Asian-music flourishes, thick and funky bass lines, and string-laded samples from old movies are sparingly, precisely doled out on top...
Rolling Stone (01/21/1999)
...EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT is the product of an artist who has mastered his medium and taken us a little closer to a new reality...
The Source (03/01/1999)
...With full control of his artistic devices and inspired by the acclaim garnered for his explosive lyrics...Busta landed feet first into the cameo king slot....Busta's latest...relies on the promise that Earth will soon shatter to bloody bits...
Vibe (02/01/1999)
Rhymes continues to be the Jackie Chan of hip-hop, karate-chopping up mountains of rhymes with a maniacal fervor (and a charming, cartoonish persona). He may be one of the few rappers who can make tall tales of sex and success seem funny... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (01/15/1999)
4 out of 4 - ...impressively tongue-twisting rhymes over unpredictable but body-grabbing beats....fearsome and off the hook, E.L.E. is Busta Rhymes at his best.
Urban Latino (02/01/1999)
4 out of 5 - ...Busta, rasping like only he can, takes beats which owe much to the cut-ups of jungle and layers them with the rhymes which walk on the dark side...
Mixmag (01/01/1999)
Rhymes continues to be the Jackie Chan of hip-hop, karate-chopping up mountains of rhymes with a maniacal fervor (and a charming, cartoonish persona). He may be one of the few rappers who can make tall tales of sex and success seem funny... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (01/15/1999)
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