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"Gimme Some More" is a song by American rapper
Busta Rhymes Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972), known professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper, singer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the moniker Busta Rhymes, after National Football League, NFL and Canadian Football Lea ...
. It was released as the second single from his third studio album '' Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front'' on October 26, 1998, by Flipmode Entertainment and
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. The song was written by Rhymes and its producer
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. The violin riffs that accompany the main beat are sampled from the opening theme to
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's 1960 film '' Psycho,'' composed by Bernard Herrmann. It is often considered to be the very summit of Busta's complex, breathless, high-speed rhyming delivery, which was most prominent in his early work. In 2000, it was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the
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, but it lost to
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's " My Name Is." Rhymes first performed the song live with The Roots on ''
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'' with "Tear da Roof Off" on February 13, 1999. He also performed the song live in 1999 at MTV Spring Break, the 1999 Soul Train Music Awards, at the Knitting Factory
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in 2008, and at The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival in 2012.


Composition

"Gimme Some More" was composed in time and the key of
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, with a
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of 137 beats per minute. It has a duration of two minutes and thirty-nine seconds.


Music video

The music video for "Gimme Some More" was directed by
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along with Busta Rhymes himself, credited there as Busta Remo. Like many of Busta's earlier music videos, it is shot through
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in fast motion and is largely absurdist in nature. Opening up with a ''
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''-like intro, the video begins with Busta Rhymes narrating in the background, recalling how he once bumped his head as a child. A little boy portraying Busta as a child acts this out. A woman runs out of house to the aid of him. Suddenly, the child turns into a hideous, little blue monster with big yellow eyes and sharp teeth, and chases the woman around and throughout the house. The story is intercut with scenes of Busta Rhymes and other members of Flip Mode Squad in various random costumes and situations. Busta is seen as a boxer, stock broker, police officer, miner, pistol-toting, Yosemite Sam-like Texan, body builder, pimp and a person tied up about to get run over by a train a la '' The Perils of Pauline.'' The video ends on an unresolved
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, with the woman trapped on top of a refrigerator and the monster climbing closer and closer towards her. It was nominated for Breakthrough Video at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. A VHS tape of the music video came free with a purchase of the album '' E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front''.


Track listing


CD single

#"Gimme Some More" (Clean Version) #"Gimme Some More" (Dirty Version) #"Do It Like Never Before"


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References

{{Authority control 1998 singles Busta Rhymes songs Music videos directed by Hype Williams Songs written by Busta Rhymes Patter songs Psycho (franchise) Comedy hip-hop songs Songs written by DJ Scratch