David Parker (born October 26, 1962 in Bronx, New York), known by the stage name Busy Bee, is an old school hip hop musician, and MC. First coming on the New York City music scene in 1977, Busy Bee worked with many of hip-hop's founding fathers, including Melle Mel, Afrika Bambaataa, and Kool DJ AJ.
Career
Known for his comedic rhymes, Busy Bee originally gained a large following through MC rap battles in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. He was famously roasted by Kool Moe Dee at Harlem World in Manhattan, NY, December 1981, in one of the earliest documented rap battles. In 1985, he won the New Music Seminar's MC World Supremacy Belt. In the early 1980s Afrika Bambaataa asked Busy to join his Zulu Nation where the young MC would DJ for Bambaataa's Zulu Nation parties. Busy Bee continues to rhyme today, most recently appearing on KRS-One and Marley Marl's collaborative 2007 album, Hip-Hop Lives.
Busy Bee was featured in the 1983 film Wild Style, billed as the first hip-hop motion picture, directed by Charlie Ahern. More recently, he played himself in the 2002 inner-city drama Paid in Full. In 2007, he was included in the video documentary Hip Hop Legends.
I was walkin down a dark way, trouble had to find me The street corner shark was comin up behind me I grabbed my pistol, punk started to whistle Like you got a missile, boy, you know this'll Be fun, I put my hand up on my gun He tried to cut me on run, huh - but yo, I'm not the one Flexin up the trigger finger, a dead ringer I'm not a singer, and life just don't linger But I looked the boy in his eyes, and he almost cried But before he died In the first degree That's what you get when you're messin with the Busy Bee Yeah, murder You better write your will I'm Busy Bee, I pay the bills, dressed to kill Murder style Murder style A black guy on Howard Beach A boy lay bleedin from his head to his feet The police writin up his report Drinkin coffee from a cup and doin what he was taught At the academy, mistaken identity The boy was a friend of me, guess he wasn't meant to be Remedies, diagnosis or cure or a conclusion There's no confusion, it's just winnin and losin Hey, there's no pity or remorse There's no pause, cause what's lost is lost Huh, so throw his body in the bag And they'll say that he was high on crack But it's In the first degree That's what you get when you're messin with society Yeah, murder You better write your will I'm Busy Bee, I pay my bills, dressed to kill I'm talkin bout Girl named Patty drived a black Caddy The girl was so fine, I wanted to kiss her daddy Bring her mama out to dinner Bring Patty to the race track, then bring home a winner Buy her earrings and medaillons I got juice by the gallon But she got legs like a stallion Plus to be a cutie's her duty She got brains plus beauty Don't even think about the booty Bumpers, and she got no breaks So when she walks her shimmy'll shake Like??? from the earthquake, on the eaves she would drop She'd go on the horn and say "I can't stop" The way she move, the way she pose She knows how to put on - and even take off clothes I never leave her, I never desert her She so bad - the bitch was murder Yeah Dance, sucker This is murder A pretty good-lookin, fine young lady Drivin a Mercedes, soon to have a baby Three months gone, she's treated like a pawn And all the joyridin good times - all that was gone Her world changed, she was feelin strange Things was runnin through her brain, cravin, hunger pains And her friend, he stopped goin steady Then reality hit her - she realized she ain't ready So now she must proceed with caution And sneak to the clinic and gettin an abortion They're both foetal, the less is too evil It' still raw, but still legal It's murder In the first degree That's what you get when you're messin with society Yeah, it's murder You better write your will I'm Busy Bee, I pay the bills, I'm dressed to kill In Bed-Stuy It's do or die It's no why Why's a crooked letter Yes, let's go get her You better met my beretta (Why?) The song set her Don't do the crime If you can't do the time Do let her get away To pray you must lay Because if you get caught You get the time anyway A lotta guys went to jail who ain't ready The only thing worse than a criminal is one that's petty Go to jail to get large He's doin life - what's his charge? In the first degree That's what you get when you're messin with the Busy Bee Yeah, it's murder You better write your will I'm Busy Bee, I pay the bills, I'm dressed to kill Talkin bout
Ahearn found out that Lee was the same graf king whose work he admired while filming in LES... Other notable legends included Busy Bee Starski, graff legends Dondi, Zephyr, and Revolt, who designed the Wild Style logo and the FantasticFreaks ... .
They are particularly prominent in hip hop ... Megan Thee Stallion’s diss track, Hiss ... In 1985, Shanté battled with male New York rapper Busy Bee Starski to be crowned best freestyle rapper, a title that many fans argue she should have won ... Sign up here ... .
Patrick and Adryana from Lodger Films / Showtime...Sign up ... Biz fell in love with the new sound of hip-hop in the early 1980s — Afrika Bambaataa and the L-Brothers were favorites — and took his nickname from the rapper Busy Bee Starski ... Credit ... Ghost Dog.
Ahearn found out that Lee was the same graf king whose work he admired while filming in LES... Other notable legends included Busy Bee Starski, graf legends Dondi, Zephyr, and Revolt, who designed the Wild Style logo, and the FantasticFreaks ... .
Under his now-retired moniker Mos Def, Brooklyn native Bey broke into the underground scene on Rawkus Records’ influential 1997 compilation Soundbombing with a charismatic presence that recalled the early ‘80s chief rocker days of Busy Bee Starski.
