For his new LP, “The Big Bang”, Busta Rhymes shunned his usual one album a year routine and instead took three years to make an album with a number of artists and producers contributing.

Busta says that his time spent with Dr. Dre made him “approach the game in a new and different way.” He had three years to brainstorm and condition himself. “Patience was my best weapon this time around, because I was able to have some things fall in my lap. I don’t think dudes is really gonna be able to compete with me this time around.”

Busta said the album title is “the perfect definition of just how big I’m gonna bang the street. It’s gonna bang everything so big.”

Busta has some tracks produced by Dre as well as Timbaland, the Neptunes, Scott Storch, Erick Sermon and Swizz Beatz. Dre also drops 24 bars for Busta on the album. Other guests on the album include Rick James, Stevie Wonder, ODB, Eminem, and others from the Aftermath roster.

Big Bang is due in March.