Busta Rhymes has been charged with assault after allegedly punching a person within the face in New York Metropolis.
TMZ and the New York Publish first reported that the rapper turned himself right into a police station in Brooklyn on Tuesday (January 14) and has since been charged with misdemeanour assault, tried assault and harassment.
Rhymes – actual title Trevor Smith Jr. – is now as a consequence of seem in a prison courtroom on February 3, with the New York Police Division stating that the case is “ongoing”.
In accordance with New York state regulation, a misdemeanour assault means an individual deliberately inflicts bodily harm, “recklessly causes bodily harm” or “causes bodily harm to a different particular person by way of a lethal weapon or a harmful instrument”.
The incident is believed to have occurred on January 10, with a 50-year-old man being punched within the face a number of occasions in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighbourhood.
The rap legend was not too long ago awarded with the International Icon Award on the MTV Europe Music Awards, with UK hip-hop star Little Simz presenting him with the prize.
In November, he additionally applauded GloRilla for her “unfiltered” authenticity, describing the 25-year-old as “a special kind of lovely”.
“What I like about GloRilla – and I hope that we will maintain on to this GloRilla so long as attainable earlier than she evolves to her Beyoncé stage – however the GloRilla that we love is the GloRilla that we see ourselves in,” he continued. “Like, we see [ourselves] in her. She is unfiltered, she just isn’t politically right and he or she is the reality. And the wonder is, when you’re untainted by the trade. Her music speaks to my soul like that.”
Busta Rhymes additionally appeared on the brand new album ‘THE FORCE’ by fellow New York rap veteran LL Cool J final yr, alongside the likes of Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Nas and Rick Ross.