‘Masked Singer’ Dragon Was Not a Dragon Just Because He Spits Fire

(Spoiler alert: Do not learn this put up if you don’t want to know what Dragon-outfitted celeb was eradicated on the Season 4 premiere of Fox’s “The Masked Singer.”)

The Season 4 premiere of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” unveiled the fire-breathing Dragon to be fire-spitting rapper Busta Rhymes.

Beyond the semi-obvious reference to his scorching bars on hits like “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check,” “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See” and “Break Ya Neck,” Rhymes’ alternative of getup on the foolish singing competitors goes a bit deeper, he advised TheWrap.

“As a child, the dragon was one thing I fully recognized with once I went to my first karate film in a theater with my father,” the 48-year-old emcee stated.

The means Bruce Lee “was whooping everyone’s ass” — and doing it with “charisma,” in Busta’s phrases — in “Enter the Dragon” by no means left the impressionable boy’s thoughts.

“The vitality and the facility and the energy and the main target and the arrogance and simply the fervour that he had for what he did– it was one thing that I used to be in a position to fully determine with, even earlier than I used to be sufficiently old to know how my figuring out with him would actually have an eternal impression on my life and simply my means general of pondering,” Rhymes, the son of Jamaican immigrants, stated.

Right across the similar age, Trevor Smith Jr., who fondly recalled his days being babysat by the mom of a neighborhood graffiti artist, realized he needed in on hip-hop. However, his device wouldn’t be a sprig paint can and his canvas not Brooklyn’s 2 and 4 trains: Smith Jr. needed to bust a rhyme.

And he needed to do it with “the fervour and the energy and the resilience and the charisma and the showmanship that Bruce Lee had,” Busta Rhymes stated.

An estimated 9 million albums-sold later, examine and examine.

Despite tonight’s consequence, Rhymes did Lee’s entire method justice on Wednesday’s “Masked Singer,” performing LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out.” Unfortunately, Dragon was knocked out of the Fox competitors by a pair of Snow Owls. We’d say “solely in America,” however “The Masked Singer” is a South Korean import — sure, one other Western adoption of Asian tradition to assist piece collectively this story.

Anyone who follows rap music is aware of that it’s unattainable to overstate the impression Lee and martial arts have had on hip-hop tradition. Need extra proof? Check out something Wu-Tang Clan associated.

“The Masked Singer” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Fox.