News Summary

• Busta Rhymes is getting the inaugural Rock the Bells Visionary Award at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7.
• The Brooklyn native's now-grown kids were raised primarily out of the spotlight in respective households.
• "I'm looking at my kids, for the first time all together at such a prestigious moment in my life," Busta told Entertainment Tonight after he was honored for lifetime achievement at the June 2023 BET Awards.
• He missed some milestones when they were growing up, he acknowledged, and "I lived with that guilt for a long time"