Over the weekend hip hop veteran, Busta Rhymes learned that Instagram is NOT his friend, especially when you’re lying to get out of a gig booked!

Read on and see how Busta Rhymes got caugh lying through his teeth about an arrest warrant…

Celebes, this is actually funny and sad all at the same time because Busta Rhymes is clueless to think that he wouldn’t get caught by a promoter in New Jersey!

The crazier part is that the New Jersey promoters 800 Entertainment is demanding via lawsuit that Busta Rhymes pays him $2 million for damages, defamation of character and credability after Busta pulled a noshow.

PageSix has the tea spilling:

In the state civil-court lawsuit filed Friday, promotions company 800 Entertainment says it booked the rapper, whose real name is Trevor Smith, to perform at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Somerset, NJ, on April 21.

What is worse is that the company agreed to pay the “Touch It” artist $17,000 to perform just two to three verses from three of his songs. But two weeks before the scheduled appearance, Busta Rhymes said he “couldn’t make the event because he had to be in court that day to answer a child-support warrant,” according to the lawsuit, which is seeking $2.1 million in damages.

The promotions company said it suspected that the rapper was lying about the warrant because he had been scheduled to perform for it on a Saturday — “and no federal courts are open on weekends.”

It confirmed its suspicions when company officials saw a flier the rapper promoted on Instagram touting a performance he was scheduled to do — the same night — at the International Boutique Nightclub in Scottsdale, Ariz., according to the lawsuit, which attached a copy of the Instagram post.

The company says Busta Rhymes repaid them his $17,000 performance fee but claims that he owes them $100,000 for breach of contract, $500,000 for lost revenue, $500,000 for emotional distress and $1 million for “punitive damages for willful breach” of contract.

Here is the post that got his BUSTED: