You Can’t Hold the Torch

~ Recording by Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey Black

Annotation

Contains a scratched, uncredited sample of the "I write rhymes, I write checks" vocal from Bad Boy for Life.

Annotation last modified on 2009-11-24 03:14 UTC.

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes feat. Chauncey Black & Q‐TipThe Big BangBusta RhymesAlbum
  • XW2006-01-01
Aftermath Records (US rap)
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
  • XE2006-06-12
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)0602498784365
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
  • US2006-06-13
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)B0006748-02
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes feat. Q‐Tip & Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
  • CA2006-06-13
Aftermath Records (US rap)
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
  • JP2006-06-14
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Interscope RecordsUICS-1113
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)B000674802
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)0602498784365
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Interscope Records0602498784365
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)B0006748-01, B0006748-01LP
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Flipmode Entertainment (1994-2011), Interscope Records, Violator9878436
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Flipmode Entertainment (1994-2011), Interscope Records, Violator06024 987 843-6
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big BangBusta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)02517-01260
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (explicit)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Flipmode Entertainment (1994-2011), Interscope RecordsB0006944-10, INTR-11827-9
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (clean)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Flipmode Entertainment (1994-2011), Interscope Records, ViolatorB0006749-02
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big BangBusta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Interscope Records460502600856
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch?:??Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (clean)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Universal Music Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysian subsidiary of Universal Music Group)602517012608
Promotion
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch3:39Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big BangBusta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap), Flipmode Entertainment (1994-2011), Interscope Records, Violator[none]
1.8You Can’t Hold the Torch?:??Busta Rhymes featuring Q‐Tip and Chauncey BlackThe Big Bang (Exclusive) (clean)Busta RhymesAlbum
Aftermath Entertainment (US rap)INTF11829-1
Bootleg
1.8You Can’t Hold a Torch3:29Busta Rhymes feat. Q‐Tip & Chauncey BlackAbstract RevelationsA Tribe Called QuestAlbum + Compilation

Relationships

additional recording engineer:Robert “Roomio” Reyes
recording engineer:Mauricio “Veto” Iragorri
Darren Rapp
engineer:Mauricio “Veto” Iragorri
producer:J Dilla (US producer and rapper aka Jay Dee)
mixer:Dr. Dre (Andre Young, rap producer)
additional keyboard:Dawaun Parker
turntable [scratching]:Busta Rhymes
guest vocals:Chauncey Black
Q‐Tip (American rapper)
vocals:Busta Rhymes
produced for:PayJay Productions (J Dilla’s production company)
recorded at:Buzz Soundwerks, NYC (recording studio in NYC) in New York, New York, United States
Record One Studios in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States
mixed at:Record One Studios in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States
engineered at:Buzz Soundwerks, NYC (recording studio in NYC) in New York, New York, United States
samples:Bad Boy for Life by P. Diddy (Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, P. Diddy), Black Rob & Mark Curry (rapper)
Inside My Love by Minnie Riperton
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/5So0O3EZlHcxLC5RTGDrzZ [info]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y00WvMnMHtw [info]
other databases:https://www.whosampled.com/Busta-Rhymes/You-Can't-Hold-the-Torch/ [info]
recording of:You Can’t Hold the Torch

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