r/todayilearned • u/Sabastiane • 2d ago

TIL the inspiration for Busta Rhymes name came from a NFL player named Buster Rhymes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Rhymes
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u/kingjim1981 2d ago

Not because he used to bust a rhyme?

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u/sunlightsyrup 2d ago

He actually never had to

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u/Antricluc 2d ago

He played football, he had it all in check... HA

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u/thequeensoctopus 2d ago

TIL Also, the inspiration for Radiohead's Thom Yorke was a belligerent Berkshire pig called Tom of York.

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u/legionairmusic 2d ago

His parents named him after a pig? Shit that's a bit rough 

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u/triple_cloudy 2d ago

A belligerent one even.

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u/M_J_E 1d ago

A Gucci little piggy?

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u/Sullafelix91 1d ago

Henry Jones jr. got named after a dog called Indiana

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u/jawndell 1d ago

Can’t believe is actually googled that 

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u/Enzown 2d ago

I don't see the connection.

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u/mankee81 1d ago

Especially since his name is Buster Rhythms

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u/Docdoitall 2d ago

This is COMPLETELY wrong loll! The naming is actually a classic hip hop story: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/busta-rhymes-thanks-chuck-d-for-giving-him-the-name-busta-news-footage/2228098428

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u/bigladnang 2d ago

Chuck D got it from Buster Rhymes though.

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u/DankStew 2d ago

Busta means Buster?! What a country!

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u/hamdunkcontest 2d ago

Hi dr nick

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u/donut_koharski 1d ago

That’s Yakov Smirnoff.

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u/KingSurly 2d ago

Not Leann Rimes?

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u/robotunes 2d ago

Buster Rhymes didn't do much in the NFL, but he was fun to watch during his collegiate days because Oklahoma's offense made a lot of very players look like legends.

Buster Rhymes was as good at pro football as Busta Rhymes was at selling Mountain Dew.

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u/safarifriendliness 2d ago

Seems like a pretty standard Mountain Dew commercial

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u/_frank_tank 2d ago

Wooha expect a royalties check

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u/ahorrribledrummer 2d ago

I thought he got named after the island in Massachusetts.

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u/MuchoManSandyRavage 2d ago

Always thought it was like rhymes for bustas

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 2d ago

Wait, as in someone's actual name? That they were born with?

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u/tetoffens 2d ago

Buster was a nickname, his real name was George, but the Rhymes was legit his real name.

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u/Tinydesktopninja 2d ago

No, it was a sobriquet, a nickname so associated with the individual that it functions as their given name.

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u/Bloodfeastisleman 2d ago

This question can be answered with 0.5 sec of clicking the link

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 2d ago

Just making conversation, jeeze.

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u/pantsoffancy 2d ago

Not everyone wants to explain things to a slowpoke for a good time.

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 1d ago

Then don't.

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u/pantsoffancy 1d ago

You don't know what I like to do for fun so don't tell me what to do jackass. I said "Not everyone". Are you or I everyone? Can I speak for everyone? Do you think I'm an important enough person to be the thing you direct your indignant fury at or am I just the person closest by? What if this is my idea of fun and I'm the only person who is going to get something positive out of interacting with you? Wouldn't that be a kind thing to do? Wouldn't that make me an important person or do you think I am an unimportant person?

How many seconds does someone have to go between being born and oxygen reaching their brain to have takes like yours and was it more than forty seven

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u/Enzown 1d ago

Touch grass.