Extinction Level Event (Final World Front)

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E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
Studio album by Busta Rhymes
Released	December 8, 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	East coast Hip-Hop
Length	69:53
Label	Elektra Records
Busta Rhymes chronology
When Disaster Strikes (1997)	E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front (1998)	Anarchy (2000)

E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front is a hip hop album by Busta Rhymes, released on December 8, 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Extinction Level Event peaked at #2 and #12 on Billboard's Top Hip Hop/R&B Albums and the Billboard 200 charts.

The album is widely considered Busta's best effort for its cohesive sequencing and quality material of every sort. It presented some of his biggest singles to date, including the classic DJ Scratch produced, "Gimme Some More". The album contains three classic skits, one involving a boy who is being criticized by his parents for listening to such explicit music, one involving a young man trying to pick up a young woman at the mall by exaggerating his financial and social status - "Oprah does my laundry" - , and one concerning a group of campers who insist upon their leader to play a Busta Rhymes song at the campfire, pushing him to the breaking point. In the first two skits, songs from Busta's previous 1997 album, When Disaster Strikes, can be heard in the background. "Get High Tonight" produced by DJ Scratch, and "So Hardcore", produced by Jay Dee.

The album's cover art, portraying New York having an "extinction level event" of sorts, was considered controversial by some in 2001, when two planes, now infamously crashed into Manhattan's World Trade Center.

[edit] Track listing

1. "There's Only One Year Left!!! (Intro)"
2. "Everybody Rise"
3. "Where We Are About to Take It "
4. "Extinction Level Event (The Song of Salvation)"
5. "Tear da Roof Off"
6. "Against All Odds"
7. "Just Give It to Me Raw"
8. "Do It To Death"
9. "Keepin' It Tight"
10. "Gimme Some More"
11. "Iz They Wildin Wit Us & Gettin' Rowdy Wit Us?"
12. "Party Is Goin' on Over Here"
13. "Do The Bus a Bus"
14. "Take It Off"
15. "What's It Gonna Be?!"
16. "Hot Shit Makin' Ya Bounce"
17. "What The Fuck You Want!!"
18. "This Means War!! "
19. "The Burial Song (Outro)/Interlude #3"

[edit] Charting singles

Year	Single	Chart	Highest Rank
1999	What's It Gonna Be?!	The Billboard Hot 100	No. 3
1999	What's It Gonna Be?!	Hot Rap Singles	No. 1
1999	What's It Gonna Be?!	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	No. 1
1999	What's It Gonna Be?!	Rhythmic Top 40	No. 5
1999	What's It Gonna Be?!	Top 40 Mainstream	No. 40
1999	Gimme Some More	Rhythmic Top 40	No. 36
1999	Party Is Goin' on Over Here	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	No. 72