Former Wallabies wing Drew Mitchell has recalled how he mistook Busta Rhymes for Xzibit and got into an altercation with the American rapper after a heavy night out.

Mitchell was speaking on the Bloke In A Bar podcast, hosted by former NRL star Denan Kemp, this week ahead of the start of the new Super Rugby season.

Towards the end of the conversation, Mitchell told a story of a wild night out in the USA, after he ran the New York Marathon in 2018.

“So we’re there and we’re having a big night carrying on as if I’d won the marathon you know buying all the bottles and all that,” Mitchell said.

“I went to go and pay the bill at USD$5000 or so, stung me right? Yeah it kills me.

“It’s like five or six in the morning, I’m there, I’m just in a little blue sweater with like clear lens glasses looking like the Milky Bar Kid.

“Then Busta Rhymes walks past and I tapped his shoulder and he goes ‘don’t f***ing touch me bro’.

“I’m just like, ‘I’m a fan’. He’s like ‘f***  you’.  I’m just saying I’m a fan.”

Things then escalated when Busta used a racial slur on Mitchell, with the shocked rugby player saying: “Listen mate, you don’t f***ing speak to people like that.”

“He’s kind of summoned me outside I was like and I’ve never been in a fight in my life,” Mitchell continued. “I’ve never stood there and traded with anyone, but I’m like I’m gonna trade with Busta Rhymes.”

However, Mitchell was enjoying the confrontation and fired back at Busta: ‘All you’ve done is pump a few people’s rides’, a reference to another famous rapper Xzibit.

“So he came charging for me and a couple of these guys were holding him and then he’s grabbed me and I’ve grabbed him and then we’re like tripping over the garbage bags out in front of this nightclub,” he said.

Mitchell then realised he needed reinforcements, so got his mate to pay a nearby homeless man $300 to join their side in the melee.

“To back us up, you know for a bit of cash it’s like I’ll fight Busta Rhymes for $300. so there were three of us there and then the security jumped in.

“It was just a melee like there’s no like punches necessarily yeah like a bit of a stretched sweater and whatever.

“And then he got sort of like quickly put into one of his cars and left.”

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