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'I was levitating': Rapper Busta Rhymes on his show-stopping Grammys performance

Busta Rhymes walks the red carpet at the official grand opening party for Mohegan Sun's new ultra-lounge, novelle, on June 22, 2019, in Uncasville, Connecticut.

The Grammys honored 50 years of hip-hop on Sunday with a medley from dozens of stars past and present, ranging from Grandmaster Flash to Lil Uzi Vert. But it was a 50-year-old, Brooklyn's Busta Rhymes, who stole the show.

About two-thirds of the way through the 13-minute medley, Rhymes, dressed in a fire-engine-red pea coat, roared into his hook from the 1997 MTV staple "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See," then vaulted into a torrent of bars

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