“You just tinker around with the software and just figure it out - just mess with it. “At that time, there was no YouTube,” he said. For Bush, his love for creating hip-hop started with pirated software, “clunky” beats and his middle school rap group, Drop Squad. Jarius Bush, a local hip-hop artist known as J.Bu$h, generates income using his production and mixing skills to help other artists master their sound. Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2018 on “Vapors,” Markie said, “I always look at records like, if it has a good feeling, it’s gonna have a good feeling for a long time.Jarius Bush, left, works with rappers Terrence Price, aka TP, center, and Ashante Price, aka Swoo, during a recording session in the Good Guy Collective space at the Birdhouse in Knoxville, Tenn. Markie also featured on Beastie Boys’ cover of Elton John’s “ Bennie and the Jets,” the Avalanches’ “ The Noisy Eater,” Flaming Lips and Kesha’s “ 2012 (You Must Be Upgraded),” De La Soul’s “ Stone Age,” and Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist’s “ God Is Perfect.”
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While Markie would release only one more album during his lifetime - 2003’s Weekend Warrior - he remained a cultural mainstay thanks to appearances on comedy series ( In Living Color, Crank Yankers, Wild’n Out) children’s shows ( SpongeBob SquarePants and Yo Gabba Gabba, where Markie was also a member of the touring unit) “as himself” cameos ( Black-ish, Empire, Hip-Hop Squares) and countless VH1 “ I Love the …” specials. The Clown Prince of Hip-Hop took the ruling in stride and channeled the incident into his 1993 album, All Samples Cleared, which lampooned the court case by using a sample of five different renditions of the same song, Allen Toussaint’s “Get Out of My Life Woman.” wasn’t the first sampling lawsuit, its judgment had a landmark impact on hip-hop: Following the judge’s ruling - which, according to NPR, included a $250,000 fine, a halt on sales of I Need a Haircut, and, most bewildering, the recommendation that Markie face criminal charges for theft - record labels were forced to get clearance on all samples by the original copyright holders.
Markie subsequently released I Need a Haircut in 1991, though his career hit a litigious stalling point due to his unauthorized use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan sample on the track “ Alone Again.” While the ensuing Grand Upright Music Ltd. Markie’s debut single, the Marl-produced “Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz” in 1986, showcased the “human beatbox” skills that would become a trademark throughout Markie’s career his beatboxing skills were so otherworldly, he was cast in a cameo role as a beatboxing, mail-sorting alien in 2002’s Men in Black II. Magic and Marley Marl, and featuring fellow rappers like Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Roxanne Shante, and Kool G Rap.
The Harlem-born, Long Island–raised MC was a member of the legendary Juice Crew, the Queensbridge collective assembled by DJ Mr. Although deemed one of hip-hop’s biggest one-hit wonders - VH1 placed his 1989 classic “Just a Friend” at Number 81 on its 2000 list of the greatest one-hit wonders of all time - the rapper’s impact extended far beyond hip-hop’s greatest friend-zone lament. Over the course of five albums - most notably 1988’s Goin’ Off and 1989’s The Biz Never Sleeps - the producer-MC, whose real name was Marcel Hall, developed his own style unlike any other rapper at the time: a mix of half-sung (and intentionally off-key) choruses, riveting beatboxing, and silly humor that would earn him the nickname the “Clown Prince of Hip-Hop” and pave the way for gloriously bizarre rappers like Ol’ Dirty Bastard. “Biz is still under medical care, surrounded by professionals who are working hard to provide the best health care possible,” Izumi wrote in a statement to Rolling Stone at the time. Although the rapper was rehabilitating, his condition continued to decline, leading to premature reports of Markie’s death in late June. In April 2020, he was hospitalized due to complications related to the disease, and later that year suffered a stroke. While a cause of death was not revealed, the rapper had struggled in recent years with health issues related to his decade-long battle with Type 2 diabetes.
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