When Disaster Strikes

When Disaster Strikes is the second solo album by American rapper Busta Rhymes. It was released on 23 September 1997 on Flipmode Records and Elektra Records. Three singles were released to album release. These are Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See, Dangerous, and the double -single Turn It Up (Remix) / Fire It Up.

Production

The majority of the production work was done by DJ Scratch and Busta Rhymes himself. DJ Scratch has produced the beats of the songs Intro, The Whole World Looking At Me, When Disaster Strikes, Get High Tonight, We Could Take It Outside, Get Off My Block and Outro ( Preparation For The Final World Front). Busta Rhymes has been involved in the production of intro and furthermore contributed the musical accompaniment to Turn It Up And There's Not A Problem My Squad Can not Fix at. Other producers who are brought in at the making of the album The Ummah (So Hardcore), Epitome, Buddah and Shamello (Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See ) Latief ( It's All Good ), Rashad Smith ( Rhymes Galore and Dangerous ), Easy Mo Bee ( Things We Be Doin ' For Money Part 1), 8 -Off and Clarence Dorsey ( Things We Be Doin' For Money Part 2) and Rockwilder ( One). The Puff Daddy became known as hip- hop musician Sean Combs has also produced the play The Body Rock.

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Reception

Charts

When Disaster Strikes could reach # 3 on the U.S. charts. Overall, the recordings remained 44 weeks on the Billboard 200 In Germany, the album initially debuted at 70 Place and later reached rank 62 over a period of eleven weeks When Disaster Strikes was represented in the German charts. In the Netherlands, the album was certified with position 73 placement in the album charts.

Criticism

Entertainment Weekly evaluated Rhymes second album with a grade of "B". Busta Rhymes remain despite the help by Puff Daddy and Erykah Badu, the original voice of hip-hop ( " Busta Rhymes [ ... ] remains hip -hop 's most original voice; still, Despite help from Puffy Combs and Erykah Badu "). From the perspective of the editors When Disaster Strikes but does not look like a cohesive album ( "this comes off more like a free - associative collision of skits and verbal pyrotechnics than a coherent album ").

Steve Huey wrote a review for All Music Guide, in which he described the two singles compilations taken Dangerous and Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See as great. The second half of the album could because of the numerous guest musicians who can not replace Busta Rhymes and mostly are rather boring, unconvincing ( "The second half of the album slows down the momentum somewhat, with a bevy of guests, collaborations, and posse cuts, a few offer some welcome variety, but Often They Do not replace Rhymes ' manic energy with anything quite as exciting " ). .

Credentials

The Coming (1996 ) | When Disaster Strikes (1997 ) | ELE ( Extinction Level Event ): The Final World Front ( 1998) | Anarchy (2000 ) | Genesis (2001) | It Is not Safe No More (2002 ) | The Big Bang (2006 ) | Back on My BS ( 2009) | Year of the Dragon (2012 )

• Busta Rhymes album
• Album 1997
• Album ( Hip- Hop )