Didn't I call this weeks ago? Busta Rhymes' recent run-ins with the law don't mean he has suddenly become a criminal after all of these years. He's just having a pre-midlife crisis! We should cut the guy a break. Getting old ain't easy.

The rapper celebrated his 35th birthday last weekend at Suite in Miami where, spies told The Post's Marianne Garvey, "he acted miserable and no one in his entourage spoke to him all night. Busta just stood in a corner alone with his bodyguard. When one of the waitresses brought him a bottle of Cristal with a lit sparkler sticking out of the cork, he claimed he never wanted it and ordered her to send it back." Rhymes then complained that he wasn't paying for the liquor and spent the rest of the night mouthing the words to his own songs that the deejay played for him.

Police are so heartless. Busta doesn't need to be cuffed and taken to jail when he commits criminal acts. If his behavior at his birthday party taught us anything, it's that he just needs a hug.

[NYP]