N.O.R.E. Arrested, Feuds With Perez Hilton

02/24/09 1:41pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Rapper N.O.R.E. has been charged with simple battery and disorderly conduct following a skuffle at a South Beach, Fla. Fatburger restaurant on Sunday.

Police told MTV News that the rapper formerly known as Noreaga was arrested after they received a call that N.O.R.E. (real name Victor Santiago Jr.) and three other people were causing a disturbance at the restaurant. Police say N.O.R.E. threw "yellow liquid" before he allegedly vandalized a flower bouquet, punched a man in the face and yelled, "Do you know who I am?"

N.O.R.E. was taken to Miami-Dade County Jail and has since been released.

N.O.R.E. told XXLmag.com that he "really didn't do nothing" in the incident, which he says started after a man provoked him by asking him to have a drink.

"Now this coward tells me to have a drink with him," N.O.R.E. told the website. "And I kept telling him I don't drink [alcohol] and when I do drink, I don't drink this shit what you're drinking...

"He kept offering us, 'have a drink with me, have a drink with me,' somebody wound up throwing whatever he had offered to drink on him. I don't know if it was me, I don't know who it was, but I know this guy got something thrown on him."

N.O.R.E. says no flowers were involved, either.

"But, there were NO FLOWERS involved!!!" he wrote on his Twitter page on Monday. "Repeat- NO FLOWERS involved!!!"

What's probably more amusing than a 90-kilogram rapper being arrested at a Fatburger after allegedly throwing flowers is the resulting fight between N.O.R.E. and Perez Hilton on their Twitter pages.

Hilton posted about N.O.R.E.'s arrest on his website on Monday.

"Bitch, you think really highly of yourself," Hilton wrote.

"Get over it, queen!"

N.O.R.E. responded by putting a picture of Hilton with a black eye on his own blog. The post is titled "Perez Hilton Was N.O.R.E.'s Victim in Fatburger Attack...LOL."

If you're going to say you did nothing in an alleged incident for which you were arrested, blogging saying you attacked someone — even if it's a joke — probably isn't the best idea.

"Perez Hilton is a douchebag...lol..." N.O.R.E. wrote on his Twitter page.

Hilton responded on his Twitter page by saying, "At least you know who I am, bitch! xoxo"

N.O.R.E. then responded by calling Hilton a "dirty mud butt!!

"u must know who I am cause u on my twitter but my twitter is for st8 people that don't wear wigs."

In another tweet, N.O.R.E. called Hilton "a homo" who was "foul," which prompted Hilton to tweet asking why N.O.R.E. wasn't openly gay.

We won't post the rest. You can read the hilarity yourself. But N.O.R.E. posted this video of a fake Hilton robbing him: