Busta Rhymes received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 BET Awards.

During his passionate acceptance speech, he shared some sage advice on the rap game.

Busta said, “I’ma wear it on my sleeve: I do want to cry. I ain’t never wanted to be a solo MC.”

He continued, “I ain’t like the responsibility of making a full song. I’m good with getting to the 16 bars and busting everybody’s ass and getting up out of there.”

He added, “We gon’ stop these little petty beefs that we be doing in rap. Y’all messing up the bag, y’all messing up the energy. I don’t like when I talk to these dudes that run these streaming platforms and they be talking about we turning the consumer off … We gon’ stop that, we gon’ love each other and we gon’ get to this money.”