Busta Rhymes credits hip-hop for helping him to become a man

Busta Rhymes has explained how hip-hop and becoming a father helped him become a man.

During an interview with Men’s Health, the 51-year-old rapper opened up about how hip-hop, as well as becoming a father, “forced” him into “becoming a man”.

“I was the youngest in Leaders to have a child,” the rapper said, referring to the New York-based hip-hop group Leaders of the New School, which he joined in 1986. “That forced me to understand the seriousness of what becoming a man was.”

The musician welcomed his first son, T’Ziah, now 30, in 1993 with his ex-girlfriend Joanne Wood. Since then, he has had four more children; Mariah, 25, T’Khi, 24, Cacie, 24, and Trillian, 22.