Put Your Mask Where My Eyes Could See It: Busta Rhymes Goes Off on Masks and Government Lockdowns – The Root

:Busta Rhymes at the official grand opening party for Mohegan Suns new ultra-lounge, novelle, on Saturday, June 22, 2019, in Uncasville, Connecticut.Photo: Dave Kotinsky for Mohegan Sun (Getty Images)

Good evening and welcome to yet another episode of Celebrities Say the Dumbest Things! Im your host, One Tired Writer.

Amid the ever-growing bucket of famous people adding their two cents to the Piggy Bank of Pandemic Ignorance, our latest contributor is none other than hip hop icon Busta Rhymes.

In a recently resurfaced video posted to Twitter, the Whats It Gonna Be rapper can be seen going on a mini-rant over masks, government-mandates and lockdowns.

This is my second show in front of human life in the last 15 fucking months, COVID can suck a d-ck. All these little weird ass policies and mandates can suck a d-ck. They tryna take our civil liberties away. Feels good to be back outside. WE OUTSIDE FORREAL, Busta began.

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Umm, Im sorry butwhen have niggas not been outside during this pandemic? Folks have been traveling, going to Tulum, Santorini, the moon, and their neighbors backyard barbecues since last year. I mean, theyre even out here using milk crates as stair masters now because they just wanna be outside SO BAD. Folks have BEEN outside, okay? But I digress.

Instead, Id like to move onto a segment called Woo Hah! WTF Did He Just Say? How its gonna work is, when you hear something that doesnt make sense, cant believe or can easily be disprovedyou just blurt out Woo Hah! Got it?

Lets try it out with more of what Busta said:

Its called the God-given right to freedom, right? No human being supposed to tell you you cant even breathe freely. Fuck your mask.

WOO HAH!

Im sayin, some of yall might feel differently. Fuck your mask. I cant rhyme to you with a mask on. You cant eat food with a fucking mask on. You cant even see each others smile with a mask on. Damn, yo.

WOO HAH!

I come from a time to where before I even used to wanna holla at a chick, I used to have to do shit with my face to let her know Im into her.

WOO HAH!

Alright! It looks like you got the hang of it! Lets move on to my favorite part of the show now, Hip Hop Hotep. This is where we like to find different members of the hip hop community and blast them for their hotepian-esque beliefs and downright ignorant ass comments. Luckily for us, Busta also gave us some fodder to work with on that front, too:

All of that energy gets blocked when your mask is on. Energy is important and we are all conductors of good fucking energy. We also gotta be clear when a mothafucka tryna give you BAD ENERGY. You can tell from only the expression on they face. I wanna see your face, fuck your mask. Im sorry I got a little political and shit, I miss my people. We gotta talk. We can party but we gotta talk. We gotta communicate, we gotta establish new understandings.

Fuck that, I aint going through that shit again. And make sure yall prepared too. Cuz if anything came outta this mothafucka was a lot of learning. I learned so much shit in this little time off. One thing that came good outta this fucking shutdown, I have become more empowered. And this energy right here is un-fuckwithable. They cant fuck with us when we together like this.

*inhales deeply*

Because I really feel like my explanation should be done in true Busta form, just imagine everything Im about to say said at like 5x the speed, okay?

I dont know when we as a society decided to look at celebrities as experts on everything but I really need us to stop it. Its already bad enough trying to convince the ones you actually know and love in real life to do whats right and whats best for everyone by wearing masks, socially distancing, GETTING THE VACCINE. And it doesnt help when someone with mega influence starts spewing more ignorance and discouraging people to do the very shit that can help us all get out of this hellhole.

I honestly dont get it. Busta and people like him are really out here trying to equate a piece of cloth to serious oppression or an infringement on rights. NO ONE is telling you you cant breathe freely. Literally, no one has said that. Were trying to minimize the spread of a fucking deadly virus that has killed over 630,000 people nationally in the last year. Thats it. How TF do you understand the importance of telling kids to cough in their elbow so they dont spread germs to others around them but not covering up your own mouth to keep from doing the same thing? Make. It. Make. Sense.

Because right now, no matter how you put it down, flip it and reverse it: it just doesnt. Continuing to be and spread this type of ignorance at a time when cases are steadily rising and children are dying is starting to become just as dangerous as the damn virus itself. And I dont know about you, but I, for one, would rather not fight two pandemics at the same time. This one is bad enough.

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Put Your Mask Where My Eyes Could See It: Busta Rhymes Goes Off on Masks and Government Lockdowns - The Root