A little-known rapper from Chicago's North Side,
Mr. Lee specialized in a style known as "hip-house" -- the art of rapping to dance-oriented house-music tracks. Hardcore rappers have tended to dismiss hip-house much as they would dismiss pop-rap, but in dance clubs, the style enjoyed a lot of exposure in the late 1980s and early to mid-'90s. Though it underscores hip-house's obvious limitations (the style tends to be very cliched and one-dimensional),
Get Busy isn't without its pleasures. Highly danceable club songs like "Pump That Body," "Move It" and "Break Out" are, in fact, catchy and fairly enjoyable.
Lee does get away from the hip-house groove on occasion, three examples being "I Like the Girls" (which isn't unlike something
Young MC would do), the jazz-influenced instrumental "Jazzy Lee," and the slow-burner "That's Bad." But most of the time, he's quite predictable. ~ Alex Henderson