Busta Rhymes has launched defamation counterclaims against a former assistant who accused the veteran rapper of punching him in the face for using his phone on the job.

Rhymes (Trevor Smith Jr.) was hit with a lawsuit this summer from Dashiel Gables, who worked as the rapper’s personal assistant for roughly six months starting in July 2024. Gables alleges Rhymes routinely abused employees and that the rapper physically assaulted him in the lobby of a Brooklyn luxury high-rise last January.

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At the time the lawsuit was filed, Rhymes called it “an attem

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