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Busta Rhymes - E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front

'E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front' is a hip hop album by Busta Rhymes, released in December 1998. 'Extinction Level Event' peaked at #2 and #12 on Billboard's Top Hip Hop/R&B Albums and the Billboard 200 charts.

The album is widely considered Busta's best effort for its cohesive sequencing and quality material of every sort. It presented some of his biggest singles to date, including the classic DJ Scratch produced, 'Gimme Some More.'

The album contains three classic skits, one involving a boy who is being criticized by his parents for listening to such explicit music, one involving a young man trying to pick up a young woman at the mall by exaggerating his financial and social status - 'Oprah does my laundry' - , and one concerning a group of campers who insist that their leader play a Busta Rhymes song at the campfire, pushing him to the breaking point.

In the first two skits, songs from Busta's previous 1997 album, 'When Disaster Strikes,' can be heard in the background. 'Get High Tonight' and 'So Hardcore,' respectively. 'Extinction Level Event' is the first album by Busta Rhymes to feature production by Swizz Beats, as well as no contribution from longtime collaborator Jay Dee.

The album's cover art, portraying New York having an 'extinction level event' of sorts, was considered controversial by some in 2001, when two planes infamously crashed into Manhattan's World Trade Center.