Busta Rhymes out of his spot of bother
Words Jeremy Allen
Trevor Smith, as he’s known to his dentist, his mum and the American judiciary system, has got himself out of a sticky situation, and a lot of bird. Busta Rhymes, who distinctively was the last person to make a record involving Mariah Carey that anybody listened to, narrowly escaped a lengthy jail sentence recently.
He pleaded guilty to two charges of assault. The first was against a fan, who apparently spat on him. It’s not quite Mark Chapman behaviour but you can sort of excuse the assailant. As Jackie Charlton once said about Frank Rijkaard spitting on Rudi Voller: “He spit on him. Then he spit on him again. If he’d spit on me I would have chinned him”.
The other haymaker was delivered to his driver, who we’re presuming got lost. Or it might have involved pistol whipping or something. Busta, who was strangely one of the cleanest living hip hop superstars around, has had a chequered last half decade. In fact his newfound bad boy image seemed to coincide with taunts of gayness, All alleged of course, though such speculation is wholly acceptable if you drop it on a mixtape.
In 2003 Trev famously had his SUV peppered with bullets in New York. And then he started going mental. Even his samples took their toll - in the fact Rhymes did the theme from Knight Rider and consequently David Hasselhoff was caught on YouTube eating a burger and pissing himself. By his children. The moral of this story is never have children. Or own a gun. Or hit anyone. Unless they deserve it.
“I just want to say that I’m very grateful to the judge, and I’m very grateful to the system.
“I believe in the system,” Rhymes said as he left court.
