Busy Bee Starski

• Name — Busy Bee • Birth Name — David James Parker • Alias — * Chief Rocker Busy Bee • Busy Bee Starski • Busy B • Born — 26 October 1962 • Birthplace — The Bronx, New York City, U.S. • Origin — Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. • Genre — Old school hip hop • Occupation — Rapper • Years Active — 1977–present • Label — * Strong City • Uni • MCA • Pandisc

After being inspired by Kidd Creole, Melle Mel, and Keef Cowboy Busy Bee decided he wanted to be a rapper. He initially hooked up with Disco King Mario of the Black Spades from the Bronxdale Houses. According to Busy Bee Disco king Mario had the sound system and told Busy Bee he would make him a star. Known for his comedic rhymes, Busy Bee originally gained a large following through MC rap battles in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. He was famously roasted by Kool Moe Dee at Harlem World in Manhattan, NY, December 1981, in one of the earliest documented rap battles. In 1985, he won the New Music Seminar's MC World Supremacy Belt. In the early 1980s Afrika Bambaataa asked Busy to join his Zulu Nation where the young MC would DJ for Bambaataa's Zulu Nation parties. Busy Bee continues to rhyme today, most recently appearing on KRS-One and Marley Marl's collaborative 2007 album Hip Hop Lives. Busy Bee was featured in the 1983 film Wild Style, billed as the first hip-hop motion picture, directed by Charlie Ahearn. More recently, he played himself in the 2002 inner-city drama Paid in Full. In 2007, he was included in the video documentary Hip Hop Legends. Thirty years after the song's initial release, in 2018 Robert Rippberger directed the official music video for “Suicide” by Busy Bee, the single off his gold album Running Thangs. The video features a cameo by artist Ice-T.

He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Michelle, his wife of over 20 years. He has two daughters.

• Year — Song — Artist — Album • 1982 — "MC Battle" "Street Rap" "Chief Rocker Busy Bee & DJ AJ At The Amphitheatre" — V/A — Wild Style OST • 1985 — "Vice" — V/A — Miami Vice Soundtrack • 1989 — "Ndodemnyama (Free South Africa)" — V/A — Hip Hop Artist Against Apartheid • 1991 — "First Black History Jam Live At The Bronx River Centre" — V/A — Afrika Bambaataa & The Universal Zulu Nation In Conjunction With Music Of Life Presents Hip Hop Funk Dance Classics Volume 2 • 1992 — "First Black History Jam Live At The Bronx River Centre (Part 2)" — V/A — Hip Hop Funk Dance Classics Volume 2 • "Hip Hop Throwdown" — V/A — Afrika Bambaataa & The Universal Zulu Nation In Conjunction With Music Of Life Presents Hip Hop Funk Dance Classics Volume 3 • 1994 — "Real" — V/A — Raiders of the Lost Art... • 1998 — "Freestyle" — Funkmaster Flex — The Mix Tape Volume III: 60 Minutes Of Funk • 2000 — "Words From The Chief Rocker" — De La Soul — Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump • 2002 — "Make It Hot" — V/A — Legends Of Hip Hop • 2007 — "House of Hits" — KRS-One & Marley Marl — Hip Hop Lives • 2008 — "Busy Bee Shout Out" — KRS-One — Maximum Strength • 2009 — "Intro" "Dance Sucka (Interlude)" "Hip Hop Is Something We Live (Interlude)" "Kickin' Flava (Interlude)" "We'll Be Here Forever (Interlude)" — V/A — Wilshire District Music Presents: Miracle Mile Volume One • 2010 — "Married Girl 3462" — Greenie — It's All Good