Back Pecking Order
Chapters (37)
  1. Cover
  2. Colophon
  3. ALSO BY OMAR TYREE
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I
  9. One
  10. Two
  11. Three
  12. Part II
  13. Four
  14. Five
  15. Six
  16. Part III
  17. Seven
  18. Eight
  19. Nine
  20. Part IV
  21. Ten
  22. Eleven
  23. Twelve
  24. Part V
  25. Thirteen
  26. Fourteen
  27. Fifteen
  28. Part VI
  29. Sixteen
  30. Seventeen
  31. Eighteen
  32. Part VII
  33. Nineteen
  34. Twenty
  35. Twenty-one
  36. Closing Interview:
  37. About the Author

The photographer jumped right in to get the pictures. “Can I get you two guys shaking hands again?” Busta and Ivan posed for the picture. “Now can I get you standing out in front of the cars with some of your guys around?”

The crew seemed to move a little too slowly.

Busta told them, “Come on, y’all, this is for the website. We gotta make sure everybody knows that we were here. Let’s just get it and get on up in the party.”

Finally, some of the guys surrounded Busta and Ivan, with a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a Bentley, and a Maybach Benz parked against the curb in the background. Ivan chose to stand in front of the Rolls-Royce Phantom.

He looked over at the cars and said, “Y’all rolled up in style.”

The parking spaces had been reserved for them.

“Come on, dude, you know how we do it. It’s rock star status over here.”

Finally, Busta posed for a few snapshots with the anxious female fans he had left standing by.

“Come on, Ivan, get up in here,” Busta commanded. He spoke to Ivan as if he had known him for years already.

Ivan walked into the picture and posed for a few photos with Busta and his eager female fans. Then they headed inside the club.

The security cleared a pathway for them to enter, led by Lucina’s girls.

Ivan stopped by the front door with Maya and Daphne on his way in. He said, “All right, forty dollars to get in, or they go home. So let the security know. Either they’re coming in for forty or we’re closing the doors.”

Maya and Daphne looked at each other and said, “Okay.” The boss had spoken.

Once Busta and his crew walked in, Red Face Lion immediately began spinning classic Busta Rhymes songs.

The crowd sang along with them line for line: “If you really wanna party with me/…Put all your hands where my eyes can see…”

Busta Rhymes walked through the crowd, bobbing and weaving to his music on his way to the VIP section. The crowd was ecstatic at his presence.

“BUSTA, WE LOVE YOUUU!” a group of three girls screamed out at the top of their lungs.

“And I love you right back!” Busta shouted in their direction.

The security guards and Busta’s crew had to push women back in order for them to walk.

Yeah, this is crazy, Ivan mused, following behind them. The Chargers football players definitely created a crowd, but they never caused this much delirium.

Eve and Lucina watched it all from the VIP section.

Eve turned to Lucina and said, “You see what I mean? That’s all day, every day.”