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Trevor Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972), better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American hip hop musician.

Of Jamaican heritage, Busta Rhymes was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Uniondale, New York. At 12 his family moved to Long Island where he met up with other MCs from the growing New York hip hop community.

Smith is well-known throughout the hip hop community with the release of his debut solo album on Elektra Records, The Coming, in 1996 (1996 in music) after leaving the Leaders of the New School. The album\'s mix of ragga and hip hop made it a marginal success, and it included the US and UK top 10 single \'Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check\'. The follow-up, When Disaster Strikes... was less successful in the US but sold well overseas. The album did, however, produce two hugely popular singles and videos in America, \'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See\' and \'Dangerous\'. The third single, \'Turn It Up/Fire It Up\' was less popular, but only just failed to top the UK charts and was a top 10 hit in Germany, establishing Rhymes as an international star.