Born Reyano Gordon, Busy was the first young gunner to put a face and a sound to the name Alliance and in the last year or so, his grimy and lyrical tunes like Curphew and These Are the Days have been played on almost every radio station as if it were the soundtrack of disc jockeys. Unknown Number with its "gangsta nah answer no private call" catchphrases (You number block, no badda caaall mi/ Cause mi nah go answer even if a mi mommy) is the ubiquitous ringtone, perfectly capturing the paranoia beneath the relative quiet.

On Pon the Edge, a fast tune that held at number one on a preponderance of dancehall charts throughout the spring, fitting somewhere between Dutty Wine and Hot Wuk. This phenomenal run of hits is a surprise comeback for Busy, who mysteriously dropped out of the juggling for an almost yearlong silence after making noise in 2006 with the signature tunes Step Out and Not Going Down. "We never quiet," he says. "We always be voicing songs, but at those times nobody beef of 2006 and 2007 began, and it isn't necessarily productive to do." Suffice to say it had its root in the mother of all Dancehall clashes, the never ending c****at between Beenie Man and Bounty Killer that stretches back to the early '90s.

It's almost impossible to separate his own powerful musical appeal from the violence in which he sees in the society like in the track No Escape. On it, Busy launches into a hyper-fast, arrhythmic narrative in dense patois, detailing betrayal and police roadblocks en route to an informer's hiding place, only to break into chilling singsong a minute twenty into the track with "Mr. Death comes knocking at your door" "No escape!" Seen from his point of view, Busy has taken the struggle and stress of garrison life and transformed them into a museum piece of cinematic wordplay.