Busta Rhymes settles lawsuit | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Hey, really quick, because we spent some time last week on the show talking about the Buster Rhymes thing, and I referenced it earlier. So Buster Rhymes, I have some more details about that that I want to just hit before we run out of time on today's show. This is from USA, Harold. It says Busser Rhymes folds aging rapper quietly settles lawsuit I'm sorry, settles assault and workplace abuse case before jury could deliver verdict. So when we last left off, we were talking on the show last week about Buster Rhymes.

0:31 His former assistant was suing him for assault and battery. Because Buster Rhymes, again apparently if you are working for him as a personal assistant and you upset him, he might punch you in the face. You better make sure that he gets his dinner on time and things like that. So difficult to work for a lot of famous people tend to be. But apparently there was a violent assault involved, and so we talked about that last week on the show. So it has been settled and that's it. That's the end of that.

0:58 But this article does have some details that were missing from the other article that we were looking at because the other article was focused mainly on what was happening in court on their way to settling. But this not only updates that the settlement is final and everybody can move on, but just some interesting details about exactly what happened here. So again this is from us A Herald. It was a confrontation that started with a text message. So rewind to January twenty twenty five. Gables that was his name, Dash Gables, the assistant.

1:29 Gables is unloading luggage at Busta's luxury Brooklyn high rise when his daughter calls his phone. He doesn't answer, he texts her back, a simple human moment between a father and his child. According to Gables, that text cost him his face. He alleged Busta flew into a rage and punched him multiple times in the lobby of the upscale building. Gables was hospitalized. He filed a police report. Prosecutors, however, declined to bring criminal charge, leaving Gables with one path to accountability civil court.

2:06 Why obvious question, but why did prosecutors decline to bring criminal charges? What's going on there? You know, did bust Or Rhymes pay them? I mean, you know, are they just big Buster Rhymes fans? You know what is going on there? Why Why would prosecutors not bring charges? That's bizarre. So because they didn't bring charges, Gables had to sue. So, getting back to the article from us A Herald, when he filed suit in August of twenty twenty five, the allegations exploded. Beyond the punches. Gables painted a portrait of systematic workplace abuse, a hostile environment where he claimed Buster forced him to unclog a toilet with his bare hand and later retaliated against him for going to police, allegedly using his industry influence to blacklist gables future work.

3:00 The price tag on that destruction at least six million dollars in damages sought for assault, wage violations, and career annihilation. By the way, so for anyone who thinks, wait, he made him unclog a toilet with his bare hands, that's just inhumane. Yeah, but think about it, that's what happens. This is not unusual to hear stories about people who become very famous and very wealthy who also for some reason or maybe it was always in them, but for some reason, also are very cruel and they have this power thing.

3:35 So, I mean, anybody who watched the Diddy documentary series Knows, and Jenny and I Binge watched that. We we were just captivated by it. But you know, this is just something that happens to some people. They become rich and famous and powerful, and then they decide to also be evil on top of it all. It's not you know, so on one hand, it's shocking that Buster Rhymes would make his assistant do that, But at the same time, it's like, hmm, but actually it's not that shocking because that's just something a rich, wealthy person who's probably so rich and I'm sorry rich wealthy, I mean rich and famous, rich and wealthy, that's redundant.

4:18 A rich and famous person who's probably so rich and so famous, they've also probably become severely mentally ill in some way. Uh. You know, that's something that a wealthy, famous, mentally ill person would do, is make their just for the hell of it, make their assistant on clogging toilet with their bare hands, just saying. I mean, it's something that's it's I really do think that's part of the human condition. Obviously, not everyone who is wealthy and famous is a psychopath. Becomes a psychopath, or maybe they already were, but now their wealth and their fame enables them to really activate their their worst impulses.

5:01 But you know, but again, to see something like that, it's shocking, but it's not shocking at the same time. The entertainment industry is replete with stories like that anyway. So it says here Busta came out swinging, then settled again. This is from USA Herald Buster Rhymes didn't take it lying down. His legal team fired back with everything they had, calling the lawsuit a calculated, attempted shakedown by a disgruntled former employee who fabricated the entire story for a payday. Bust A countersuit for defamation.

5:36 That's always the move, by the way, countersuit for defamation, that's always the move. Bust A countersuit for defamation, claiming gables public allegations cost him two major advertising contracts and torched his reputation. For a moment, it looked like this was headed toward a dramatic courtroom showdown, but it was not. By January twenty twenty six, both sides agreed to pause proceedings and intermediation. Eighteen months of legal combat, police reports, countersuits, public allegations, and reputation warfare collapsed into a private agreement that neither side will discuss publicly, and that's it.

6:17 That's the end of that that's the end of that article, and apparently that's the end of that story.