Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged<\/a> with assault regarding an altercation with former assistant Dahsiel Gabels. Gables has since filed a lawsuit against his former employer, alleging \u201cwage and hour violations, assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress,\u201d per <\/a>The Guardian<\/a>. Rhymes (real name Trevor Smith), who can currently be seen in the summer comedy The Naked Gun and was recently awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is refuting the claims made in the suit, going with that classic reverse accusation, \u201can attempted shake-down.\u201d<\/p>\n Specifically, Rhymes said in a statement to The Guardian, \u201cI have been made aware of the claims made by Dashiel Gables, and I completely and categorically deny these allegations. For a very brief period, Dashiel assisted me, but it did not work out. Apparently, Dashiel has decided to respond to being let go by manufacturing claims against me in an attempt to attack and damage my reputation. I look forward to proving these allegations false, and am preparing a countersuit, which I am confident will expose this for what it is\u2014an attempted shake-down by a disgruntled former assistant. Ultimately, I am certain the truth will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n In Gables\u2019 suit, he claims he was hired to assist Rhymes for $200 a day in 2024, at which time he was subjected to an intensely hostile work environment where he\u2019d often work 18-hour days with no overtime. He asserts that in January 2025, he was arguing with Rhymes in the lobby of the rapper\u2019s residence when his daughter called; Gables didn\u2019t answer, but sent her a text message, and Rhymes reacted by screaming at him and punching him twice. Gables was hospitalized and filed a police report. \u201cWhile plaintiff tolerated a great deal of abuse while working for Busta Rhymes, he could not tolerate the repeated physical assault and was unable to return to work,\u201d the lawsuit reads. Gables also claims he was \u201cfrozen out of the hip-hop music industry\u201d and faces \u201csubstantial future lost wage damages\u201d as a result.<\/p>\n Busta Rhymes charged with assault after Brooklyn incident<\/a>Future generations ponder a revolution and Busta Rhymes in Hulu’s Utopia Falls trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste Earlier this year, Busta Rhymes was arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-52833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}