The famous American rapper Busta Rhymes finds that he’s considered more infamous than famous by the British law servers.  Immigration officials stopped Rhymes on Thursday at London City Airport and detained him for nearly 12 hours. They wanted to put Busta, whose real name is Trevor George Smith Jr., on a plane to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and have him signed, sealed and delivered back to the United States.

The 36-year-old rapper couldn't gain entry because he had "unresolved convictions" in the United States, the officials said, most probably referring to Rhymes’ string of arrests over the past two years. No further than a few months ago, he was offered a sentence which included five days of community service, two weeks of youth lectures and six months of anger management classes, as well as probation time, if he chose to plead guilty for beating a fan who spat on his car in August 2006 and assaulting his driver that December. He was later sentenced by a New York judge to 3 years probation, 10 days community service, $1250 in fines (plus court costs), and enrollment  in a drunken driving program.

The district attorney's office attempted to amend previous charges against him to include weapons possession for a machete found in his car, but the judge refused to add the charge and adjourned the case. Even so, the British have much to fear when it comes to Busta Rhymes.

Legal issues aside, Busta Rhymes still has a lot of fans and he came to the UK especially for 5,000 of them, a group of young people who put in four hours of their time to volunteer work and got tickets to the rapper’s concert, so there was no way he was going to go back home and leave the crowds disappointed.

 A day after he was denied entry into the country and only two hours before the concert held at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Busta Rhymes has won a ruling from Britain's High Court allowing him to remain in town to perform at the event organized by the charity group Orange RockCorps.

"We are over the moon that Busta Rhymes will be able to play the Orange Rockcorps show tonight as planned in front of 5,000 young people who have volunteered four hours of their time to community projects," said a spokeswoman for the organizing group.

High Court Justice Nicholas Stadlen, who allowed the rapper to remain in the country for the show said he only did so for the 5,000 people and not for Busta: "What weighs in the balance is not just what effect that would have on Mr. Smith, to which I pay considerably less regard than the effect on the 5,000 volunteers who would be disappointed if he didn't perform this evening," Stadlen said, making it clear for Rhymes that the British authorities don’t fancy his quick temper and that the arm of the law is so long, it even follows you across the ocean.