Boxing day is traditionally a day for spending time with your family and eating so many Ferrero Rocher that your wee starts to smell like Nutella, but for Busta Rhymes it's a day of allegedly beating in the heads of employees he apparently hasn't paid.
Eddie Hatchett, one of Busta Rhymes' drivers, claims that a December 26 visit to the rapper's office to get 19 days worth of unpaid invoices ended up with him on the sticky end of a Busta Rhymes smackdown, and now police are thought to be planning to charge Busta Rhymes with assault. As yet Busta Rhymes hasn't given his version of events, but our state-of-the-art computer prediction unit has calculated that any statement Rhymes gives will be said too fast to properly understand, except for the word "flipmode" which Busta Rhymes will shout 972 times within the space of 20 seconds.
Just because it's been Christmas, the world doesn't stop turning. Especially the borderline special needs world of hip-hop. While you were all eating turkey and becoming slowly depressed by the Christmas day episode of Eastenders, hip-hop was busy ghostriding the whip – where you drive a car, get out while it's still moving and dance on the bonnet while a man films you and says "ghostride the whip, ghostride the whip" over and over – and allegedly beating the living crap out of its employees.
The latter is what Busta Rhymes has supposedly been getting up to. A driver of Busta's by the name of Eddie Hatchett has filed an assault complaint against the rapper after a payment visit went awry, as the New York Post reports:
The bust-up allegedly took place Dec. 26 in Rhymes' office at 84 W. Broadway near City Hall. Eddie Hatchett, 39, who worked as one of Rhymes' drivers, filed a police complaint saying he went to see the rapper at 7 p.m. to collect money he was owed, the sources said. Instead of taking out his wallet, the rapper put up his fists, Hatchett claimed. Rhymes landed a number of punches, including one that struck Hatchett's face and caused a laceration, the driver said… Cops plan to charge him with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor. Hatchett initially declined to discuss the case last night. Then he said, "I'm just an average Joe trying to support my family."
Quite right too – you have to watch out for these drivers, or else they'll start injecting you with poison in your sleep like Yoko Ono's driver possibly says he did. But this is just the latest turn in a long line of troublesome events that Busta Rhymes has been a part of; last year Busta's bodyguard was shot dead and he refused to take part in any police investigation, then he was sued by a fan who says Busta Rhymes beat him up when he asked for an autograph, and then he was charged with assault for allegedly beating up someone else in August.
In all, that means Busta Rhymes is now alienating the police, his fans, employees, average Joes trying to support their families and, er, people who spit at his car. At this rate it'll be interesting to see who'll be left to support Busta Rhymes should he make another album, especially since we thought he was pushing it when he ripped off Mr & Mrs Smith for that Black Eyed Peas B-side he called a single last year.
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kirk says
now now, we’ve all beaten up a driver at some point, don’t be so judgemental…