Rapper Busta Rhymes has been arrested and charged with assault, police said Sunday.
Few details about the arrest and the attack that prompted it were immediately available, although police Officer Martin Speechley said they occurred about a week apart.

Police have been wanting to interview Rhymes since the February shooting death of one of his bodyguards, Israel Ramirez. Ramirez, 29, was killed outside a Brooklyn studio where Rhymes was recording a music video.

I was hoping they would arrest him for squandering his advance on dookie chains. I bet he'll start snitching now.

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The effort is part of MTV's ongoing mission to educate and empower young people about global issues as well as get them involved.

Jay-Z's experiences as he witnesses the human impact of the water crisis will be documented by the network. Information on the documentary and companion initiatives will also be announced.

According to recently released statistics, more than one billion people across the globe lack access to safe drinking water and water-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the world and is responsible for 80% of all sickness in the world.

"From what I understand, the beat was originally made for Foxy Brown with Slim [already on the hook]," Pusha T said, sitting next to his brother, Malice, in New York's Battery Studio. "Then Foxy's hearing problem kicked in. After that happened, Pharrell and Jay-Z had a conversation — I wasn't there — they basically said she was counted out. We liked the beat. It was passed over."

Pusha said once Foxy's hearing was restored, Def Jam asked to have the beat back. "Jay-Z supposedly came like, 'Oh, she's back. Let's get that beat back.' That's where all the discrepancy came from."

"With us, it ain't no controversy," Malice added. "We followed the same protocol we would with any other beat. We hear it, we like it, we get it from Pharrell. We ain't go behind nobody's back to get this beat.