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Busta Rhymes settles lawsuit | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: Hey, really quick, because we spent some time last week
Speaker 1: on the show talking about the Buster Rhymes thing, and
Speaker 1: I referenced it earlier. So Buster Rhymes, I have some
Speaker 1: more details about that that I want to just hit
Speaker 1: before we run out of time on today's show. This
Speaker 1: is from USA, Harold. It says Busser Rhymes folds aging
Speaker 1: rapper quietly settles lawsuit I'm sorry, settles assault and workplace
Speaker 1: abuse case before jury could deliver verdict. So when we
Speaker 1: last left off, we were talking on the show last
Speaker 1: week about Buster Rhymes. His former assistant was suing him
Speaker 1: for assault and battery. Because Buster Rhymes, again apparently if
Speaker 1: you are working for him as a personal assistant and
Speaker 1: you upset him, he might punch you in the face.
Speaker 1: You better make sure that he gets his dinner on
Speaker 1: time and things like that. So difficult to work for
Speaker 1: a lot of famous people tend to be. But apparently
Speaker 1: there was a violent assault involved, and so we talked
Speaker 1: about that last week on the show. So it has
Speaker 1: been settled and that's it. That's the end of that.
Speaker 1: But this article does have some details that were missing
Speaker 1: from the other article that we were looking at because
Speaker 1: the other article was focused mainly on what was happening
Speaker 1: in court on their way to settling. But this not
Speaker 1: only updates that the settlement is final and everybody can
Speaker 1: move on, but just some interesting details about exactly what
Speaker 1: happened here. So again this is from us A Herald.
Speaker 1: It was a confrontation that started with a text message.
Speaker 1: So rewind to January twenty twenty five. Gables that was
Speaker 1: his name, Dash Gables, the assistant. Gables is unloading luggage
Speaker 1: at Busta's luxury Brooklyn high rise when his daughter calls
Speaker 1: his phone. He doesn't answer, he texts her back, a
Speaker 1: simple human moment between a father and his child. According
Speaker 1: to Gables, that text cost him his face. He alleged
Speaker 1: Busta flew into a rage and punched him multiple times
Speaker 1: in the lobby of the upscale building. Gables was hospitalized.
Speaker 1: He filed a police report. Prosecutors, however, declined to bring
Speaker 1: criminal charge, leaving Gables with one path to accountability civil court.
Speaker 1: Why obvious question, but why did prosecutors decline to bring
Speaker 1: criminal charges? What's going on there? You know, did bust
Speaker 1: Or Rhymes pay them? I mean, you know, are they
Speaker 1: just big Buster Rhymes fans? You know what is going
Speaker 1: on there? Why Why would prosecutors not bring charges? That's bizarre.
Speaker 1: So because they didn't bring charges, Gables had to sue. So,
Speaker 1: getting back to the article from us A Herald, when
Speaker 1: he filed suit in August of twenty twenty five, the
Speaker 1: allegations exploded. Beyond the punches. Gables painted a portrait of
Speaker 1: systematic workplace abuse, a hostile environment where he claimed Buster
Speaker 1: forced him to unclog a toilet with his bare hand
Speaker 1: and later retaliated against him for going to police, allegedly
Speaker 1: using his industry influence to blacklist gables future work. The
Speaker 1: price tag on that destruction at least six million dollars
Speaker 1: in damages sought for assault, wage violations, and career annihilation.
Speaker 1: By the way, so for anyone who thinks, wait, he
Speaker 1: made him unclog a toilet with his bare hands, that's
Speaker 1: just inhumane. Yeah, but think about it, that's what happens.
Speaker 1: This is not unusual to hear stories about people who
Speaker 1: become very famous and very wealthy who also for some
Speaker 1: reason or maybe it was always in them, but for
Speaker 1: some reason, also are very cruel and they have this
Speaker 1: power thing. So, I mean, anybody who watched the Diddy
Speaker 1: documentary series Knows, and Jenny and I Binge watched that.
Speaker 1: We we were just captivated by it. But you know,
Speaker 1: this is just something that happens to some people. They
Speaker 1: become rich and famous and powerful, and then they decide
Speaker 1: to also be evil on top of it all. It's
Speaker 1: not you know, so on one hand, it's shocking that
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes would make his assistant do that, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like, hmm, but actually it's not
Speaker 1: that shocking because that's just something a rich, wealthy person
Speaker 1: who's probably so rich and I'm sorry rich wealthy, I
Speaker 1: mean rich and famous, rich and wealthy, that's redundant. A
Speaker 1: rich and famous person who's probably so rich and so famous,
Speaker 1: they've also probably become severely mentally ill in some way. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, that's something that a wealthy, famous, mentally ill
Speaker 1: person would do, is make their just for the hell
Speaker 1: of it, make their assistant on clogging toilet with their
Speaker 1: bare hands, just saying. I mean, it's something that's it's
Speaker 1: I really do think that's part of the human condition. Obviously,
Speaker 1: not everyone who is wealthy and famous is a psychopath.
Speaker 1: Becomes a psychopath, or maybe they already were, but now
Speaker 1: their wealth and their fame enables them to really activate
Speaker 1: their their worst impulses. But you know, but again, to
Speaker 1: see something like that, it's shocking, but it's not shocking
Speaker 1: at the same time. The entertainment industry is replete with
Speaker 1: stories like that anyway. So it says here Busta came
Speaker 1: out swinging, then settled again. This is from USA Herald
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes didn't take it lying down. His legal team
Speaker 1: fired back with everything they had, calling the lawsuit a calculated,
Speaker 1: attempted shakedown by a disgruntled former employee who fabricated the
Speaker 1: entire story for a payday. Bust A countersuit for defamation.
Speaker 1: That's always the move, by the way, countersuit for defamation,
Speaker 1: that's always the move. Bust A countersuit for defamation, claiming
Speaker 1: gables public allegations cost him two major advertising contracts and
Speaker 1: torched his reputation. For a moment, it looked like this
Speaker 1: was headed toward a dramatic courtroom showdown, but it was not.
Speaker 1: By January twenty twenty six, both sides agreed to pause
Speaker 1: proceedings and intermediation. Eighteen months of legal combat, police reports, countersuits,
Speaker 1: public allegations, and reputation warfare collapsed into a private agreement
Speaker 1: that neither side will discuss publicly, and that's it. That's
Speaker 1: the end of that that's the end of that article,
Speaker 1: and apparently that's the end of that story.
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