Busta Rhymes settles lawsuit | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Hey, really quick, because we spent some time last week

0:05 Speaker 1: on the show talking about the Buster Rhymes thing, and

0:06 Speaker 1: I referenced it earlier. So Buster Rhymes, I have some

0:10 Speaker 1: more details about that that I want to just hit

0:13 Speaker 1: before we run out of time on today's show. This

0:15 Speaker 1: is from USA, Harold. It says Busser Rhymes folds aging

0:20 Speaker 1: rapper quietly settles lawsuit I'm sorry, settles assault and workplace

0:24 Speaker 1: abuse case before jury could deliver verdict. So when we

0:28 Speaker 1: last left off, we were talking on the show last

0:30 Speaker 1: week about Buster Rhymes. His former assistant was suing him

0:34 Speaker 1: for assault and battery. Because Buster Rhymes, again apparently if

0:38 Speaker 1: you are working for him as a personal assistant and

0:39 Speaker 1: you upset him, he might punch you in the face.

0:42 Speaker 1: You better make sure that he gets his dinner on

0:44 Speaker 1: time and things like that. So difficult to work for

0:46 Speaker 1: a lot of famous people tend to be. But apparently

0:49 Speaker 1: there was a violent assault involved, and so we talked

0:52 Speaker 1: about that last week on the show. So it has

0:54 Speaker 1: been settled and that's it. That's the end of that.

0:58 Speaker 1: But this article does have some details that were missing

1:01 Speaker 1: from the other article that we were looking at because

1:03 Speaker 1: the other article was focused mainly on what was happening

1:06 Speaker 1: in court on their way to settling. But this not

1:08 Speaker 1: only updates that the settlement is final and everybody can

1:11 Speaker 1: move on, but just some interesting details about exactly what

1:15 Speaker 1: happened here. So again this is from us A Herald.

1:19 Speaker 1: It was a confrontation that started with a text message.

1:23 Speaker 1: So rewind to January twenty twenty five. Gables that was

1:27 Speaker 1: his name, Dash Gables, the assistant. Gables is unloading luggage

1:31 Speaker 1: at Busta's luxury Brooklyn high rise when his daughter calls

1:36 Speaker 1: his phone. He doesn't answer, he texts her back, a

1:39 Speaker 1: simple human moment between a father and his child. According

1:43 Speaker 1: to Gables, that text cost him his face. He alleged

1:47 Speaker 1: Busta flew into a rage and punched him multiple times

1:51 Speaker 1: in the lobby of the upscale building. Gables was hospitalized.

1:56 Speaker 1: He filed a police report. Prosecutors, however, declined to bring

1:59 Speaker 1: criminal charge, leaving Gables with one path to accountability civil court.

2:06 Speaker 1: Why obvious question, but why did prosecutors decline to bring

2:12 Speaker 1: criminal charges? What's going on there? You know, did bust

2:17 Speaker 1: Or Rhymes pay them? I mean, you know, are they

2:20 Speaker 1: just big Buster Rhymes fans? You know what is going

2:24 Speaker 1: on there? Why Why would prosecutors not bring charges? That's bizarre.

2:29 Speaker 1: So because they didn't bring charges, Gables had to sue. So,

2:33 Speaker 1: getting back to the article from us A Herald, when

2:36 Speaker 1: he filed suit in August of twenty twenty five, the

2:39 Speaker 1: allegations exploded. Beyond the punches. Gables painted a portrait of

2:43 Speaker 1: systematic workplace abuse, a hostile environment where he claimed Buster

2:51 Speaker 1: forced him to unclog a toilet with his bare hand

2:54 Speaker 1: and later retaliated against him for going to police, allegedly

2:57 Speaker 1: using his industry influence to blacklist gables future work. The

3:01 Speaker 1: price tag on that destruction at least six million dollars

3:04 Speaker 1: in damages sought for assault, wage violations, and career annihilation.

3:08 Speaker 1: By the way, so for anyone who thinks, wait, he

3:10 Speaker 1: made him unclog a toilet with his bare hands, that's

3:13 Speaker 1: just inhumane. Yeah, but think about it, that's what happens.

3:18 Speaker 1: This is not unusual to hear stories about people who

3:22 Speaker 1: become very famous and very wealthy who also for some

3:26 Speaker 1: reason or maybe it was always in them, but for

3:29 Speaker 1: some reason, also are very cruel and they have this

3:34 Speaker 1: power thing. So, I mean, anybody who watched the Diddy

3:40 Speaker 1: documentary series Knows, and Jenny and I Binge watched that.

3:45 Speaker 1: We we were just captivated by it. But you know,

3:49 Speaker 1: this is just something that happens to some people. They

3:52 Speaker 1: become rich and famous and powerful, and then they decide

3:56 Speaker 1: to also be evil on top of it all. It's

3:59 Speaker 1: not you know, so on one hand, it's shocking that

4:03 Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes would make his assistant do that, But at

4:05 Speaker 1: the same time, it's like, hmm, but actually it's not

4:08 Speaker 1: that shocking because that's just something a rich, wealthy person

4:11 Speaker 1: who's probably so rich and I'm sorry rich wealthy, I

4:15 Speaker 1: mean rich and famous, rich and wealthy, that's redundant. A

4:18 Speaker 1: rich and famous person who's probably so rich and so famous,

4:21 Speaker 1: they've also probably become severely mentally ill in some way. Uh.

4:28 Speaker 1: You know, that's something that a wealthy, famous, mentally ill

4:33 Speaker 1: person would do, is make their just for the hell

4:36 Speaker 1: of it, make their assistant on clogging toilet with their

4:38 Speaker 1: bare hands, just saying. I mean, it's something that's it's

4:42 Speaker 1: I really do think that's part of the human condition. Obviously,

4:45 Speaker 1: not everyone who is wealthy and famous is a psychopath.

4:48 Speaker 1: Becomes a psychopath, or maybe they already were, but now

4:53 Speaker 1: their wealth and their fame enables them to really activate

4:57 Speaker 1: their their worst impulses. But you know, but again, to

5:05 Speaker 1: see something like that, it's shocking, but it's not shocking

5:07 Speaker 1: at the same time. The entertainment industry is replete with

5:11 Speaker 1: stories like that anyway. So it says here Busta came

5:14 Speaker 1: out swinging, then settled again. This is from USA Herald

5:19 Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes didn't take it lying down. His legal team

5:22 Speaker 1: fired back with everything they had, calling the lawsuit a calculated,

5:27 Speaker 1: attempted shakedown by a disgruntled former employee who fabricated the

5:32 Speaker 1: entire story for a payday. Bust A countersuit for defamation.

5:36 Speaker 1: That's always the move, by the way, countersuit for defamation,

5:39 Speaker 1: that's always the move. Bust A countersuit for defamation, claiming

5:43 Speaker 1: gables public allegations cost him two major advertising contracts and

5:49 Speaker 1: torched his reputation. For a moment, it looked like this

5:52 Speaker 1: was headed toward a dramatic courtroom showdown, but it was not.

5:57 Speaker 1: By January twenty twenty six, both sides agreed to pause

6:01 Speaker 1: proceedings and intermediation. Eighteen months of legal combat, police reports, countersuits,

6:07 Speaker 1: public allegations, and reputation warfare collapsed into a private agreement

6:12 Speaker 1: that neither side will discuss publicly, and that's it. That's

6:18 Speaker 1: the end of that that's the end of that article,

6:19 Speaker 1: and apparently that's the end of that story.