Charli Baltimore claims in a new interview that music executive Lance “Un” Rivera told her decades ago that he had been stabbed by none other than JAY-Z. The only problem is, that’s not what Rivera says now.
Baltimore’s interview with DJ Vlad recounts the aftermath of Rivera’s stabbing, which took place in December 1999 at a Q-Tip album release party. JAY-Z’s then-upcoming Volume 3: The Life and Times of S. Carter album had been bootlegged, and rumors were swirling that Rivera was responsible.
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Baltimore recalls walking into the party immediately after the violent incident.
“I actually walked up, and Un was on the ground. And I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’ And he’s like, ‘I’m stabbed, I’m stabbed. Jay stabbed me.’ So I’m like, what. And he’s like, ‘Jay-Z stabbed me.’”
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You can see the clip below.
As Vlad lays out during the interview, there are multiple accounts of what happened at the party. Witnesses at the time fingered Hov for the assault. He initially pleaded not guilty, but he eventually changed his plea to guilty for a misdemeanor assault charge.
JAY stopped just short of admitting to the stabbing in his book Decoded.
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“Before I even realized what I was doing, I headed back over to [Rivera], but this time I was blacking out with anger,” he writes. “The next thing I knew, all hell had broken loose in the club.
“That night the guy went straight to the police and I was charged with assault.”
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In the years since, Hov has made light of the incident on songs.
“N-ggas back up, they know I’m not no fronter,” he rhymes on Memphis Bleek’s “Dear Summer.” “I don’t talk shit, I just flip it Un ya/Sorry Lance, I’m just trying to advance my quotes/I ain’t making you the butt of my jokes.”
Earlier this year, Rivera denied to Vlad that JAY was the stabber.
When asked point blank if Jay was the one who stabbed him, he replied with a laugh: “No. JAY-Z was not the guy that actually stabbed me that night.”
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When informed that Rivera said this, Baltimore responded, “I just know what he told me, and he kept saying it. He just kept saying it over and over and over again.”
“It’s like Unsolved Mysteries or something,” she added.
