Busta Rhymes Gets in Street Altercation in Times Square on New Year’s

Busta Rhymes came pretty close to blows with a guy who was not down with Busta hitting on his wife per TMZ.

Witnesses at the scuffle tell TMZ ... the rapper was sitting in his car in Times Square in the wee hours of New Year's Day when a man and his wife walked by. We're told the wife said "hi" to Busta, but the husband didn't like Busta's response -- he allegedly invited her to hang with him in his ride.

See the footage below