U.S. rapper Busta Rhymes has been arrested in Manhattan yesterday and charged with driving under the influence after he was pulled over by officers who said they smelled alcohol on his breath.

Police officers stopped the rapper, whose real name is Trevor Smith, at around 12:48 a.m. near the corner of 51st Street and 11th Avenue because the tint on the windows of his $225,000 armored Yukon Denali was too dark, in violation of city law.

Police said that when he was asked for his papers, he reportedly dropped his wallet, and officers detected a strong alcohol smell on his breath.

"I don't have my license on me," the 34-year-old rapper told cops. "I had one shot of Hennessy about an hour and a half ago."

He was taken into custody and released on a $7,500 bail.

Police said Rhymes, of Long Island, blew 0.147 at the scene, but that reading fell to 0.067 - below the legal intoxication limit of 0.08 - during a generally more reliable followup test at a police station.

"According to the complaint, he blew a .067 BAC at the station [and] .08 BAC is legally drunk in New York," Rhymes' attorney Scott Leemon told AllHipHop.com.

"His license was not suspended and he was immediately released on an agreed upon bail of $7,500 cash."

This has been Rhymes’ fourth run-in with the law in the last ten months. He is scheduled to appear in state supreme court on Tuesday when a judge is expected to decide whether the four charges will be consolidated or whether he will be tried on each separately.

Earlier this year, he was arrested for driving with a suspended license, and in 2006, he was arrested for two separate assault charges.