Total Devastation: The Best of Busta Rhymes
compilation album by Busta Rhymes
Total Devastation: The Best of Busta Rhymes is a greatest hits album by American hip-hop artist Busta Rhymes. It received a score of five out of five from Allmusic. It includes songs from his four platinum albums, "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" and two songs from the 1991 LP A Future Without a Past recorded with his hip-hop group Leaders of the New School. The compilation in this form is a US exclusive; in the rest of the world (namely Europe, Germany and Australia), it was released in altered form by Warner Music Group and re-titled Turn It Up! The Very Best of Busta Rhymes.
Track listings
Total Devastation
Turn It Up!
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