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"Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" - Busta Rhymes

from the album When Disaster Strikes (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 12

 

Today's song of the day comes from Busta Rhymes, whose sophomore effort When Disaster Strikes had already scored a top ten pop single with "Dangerous", along with a big urban radio hit in "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See".  He also appeared on the top-40 pop hit from Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, "Victory". For the third release from Busta's record, Busta did a total revamp to a cut from the album, "Turn It Up". The original sampled Al Green's "Love and Happiness", and had a driving mid-tempo groove that rode on the horns in the sample and the march-like beat in the rhythm...

 For the remix, Green was swapped out with the theme from the TV show Knight Rider, giving Glen Larson and Stu Phillips their second writing credit on a 1998 hit after Timbaland and Magoo's remix of their single "Clock Strikes". Newly-titled "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up", it was offered as a commercial single, enticing his fans with new material. The music video, as he's done in the past, teases with the B-sides track "Rhymes Galore" before turning into a dystopian action film with Busta and his crew toppling the 1984-like hierarchy...

The "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" single became Busta's third top ten pop hit in May of 1998. The song rose to #7 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, and spent four weeks at #1 on their Rap Singles list. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in the UK (#2, his biggest lead artist hit there), Finland (#2), the Netherlands (#3), Switzerland (#4), Germany (#7), and got all the way to #1 in New Zealand for three weeks.

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Here's Busta appearing live performing the remix at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1998....

Up tomorrow: Dawson's Creek singer is all about herself now.