Founding member of The Roots Malik B unexpectedly passed away last week at the age of 47, which was apparently the key to unlocking Jaguar Wright’s vault of secrets.
On Monday (August 3), a video clip of the Philly singer accusing Common of once sexually assaulting her started making the rounds. Wright, who has appeared on songs with JAY-Z, The Roots and Blackalicious, among others, was nearly enraged as she spoke about her disdain for the typically celebrated MC.
“God damn Common, next thing I know we go to bed and he like, ‘Come on Jag,'” she began. “‘Nah, nah I’m tired nigga. I was on stage all night and I wanna lay down.’ I lay down on the bed with all my clothes on — I’m a rape survivor. I know how to buy myself a little time just in case a nigga try to get out of hand. You gotta pull my pants down and by the time you get my pants down, I promise you I’m booking off in your jaw.
“The next thing I know I’m waking up in the morning and I feel something poking in my face and shit … I open my mouth and this nigga tried to stick his dick in my mouth while I’m asleep. Lonnie fucking Lynn, Rashid, Common — whatever the fuck you want to call yourself. That’s why I stopped fuckin’ with him, because nigga if you gonna try to stick your dick in my mouth while I’m asleep, there ain’t nothing you won’t do.”
Wright added, “He ain’t been right since Lauryn Hill left him anyway. Then he got with Erykah [Badu] after I fucking spurned him. He hated my ex-husband for I don’t know how long … real bitch shit. Then Erykah was jealous as fuck of me. That song ‘Booty’ on that second album, that shit was about me.”
The Okayplayer member also called out Black Thought, Questlove and Erykah Badu in the wake of Malik’s death. In an Instagram video posted to her account on Friday (July 31), the 43-year-old tearfully recounted her experience with Malik and what it was like watching him battle addiction. She then dug into the perceived mistreatment and disrespect Malik allegedly received from members of The Roots.
“I’ve been carrying around 20 years of lies for someone else’s benefit and not for my own,” she said. “The lies that I’ve been carrying are to my own detriment. They have not been to help me nor have they helped anyone else … They’ve only helped a certain small group of people. I’m gonna say it right now — Phrenology, that song ‘Water,’ I had a problem when it was recorded in the studio and I definitely got a problem with it now.
“How do you go from singing ‘never do what they do’ to sitting there lightweight throwing your brother under the bus on a record to make money, to make it seem like it was heartfelt? How many times did you write him off? How many times did you not want to deal with him? But you wanna write a song about it? Was you out there in them streets? Or was you worried about wearing Polo Ralph Lauren? Was you worried about wearing designer clothes? I don’t wanna hear nothing from nobody that ain’t really step in.”
However, Wright wasn’t even close to done there. Several people speculated Malik’s death was caused by a drug overdose considering he’d battled addiction for most of his adult life. But she explained there’s a difference between a drug addict and someone who “suffered from addiction.” To illustrate her point, she used a line from the Mac Miller tribute “Cheers” by Anderson .Paak in which he sings, “How do you tell a nigga slow it down when you livin’ just as fast as ’em?”
“If you drinking, if you smokin’, if you getting high every day — nigga, I’ve heard about you,” she said. “I’ve heard about you getting mad at your wife — you working on television, everything’s supposed to be great. You got drunk, you got high and you broke your arm — all of that’s record on TV when your arm was broken.
“I know for a fact because I found out from your minion who don’t talk to me no more I guess because he’s not allowed to funnel me any information about what’s going on because I might do something like this. I might just blow. I might just pop. I might just put it out all there. How you gonna tell him not to get high and you gettin’ high? You ain’t got the right to say nothing.”
Black Thought's Eulogy For Ex-Roots Member Malik B Reads Like Poetry
Then she went in on Questlove’s tribute post to Malik, which was evidently what set her off in the first place.
“I’m a little disappointed about that post Questlove put up too,” she added. “I’m just gonna keep it a bean. That’s what drove me crazy, sitting here holding all these lies and I don’t know why I’m holding these lies anymore. You wrote a sonnet about him and oils, talking about a ‘lighter side of Malik.’ What do you mean a lighter side of Malik?
“How are you not talking about his brilliance? How are you not talking about being grateful for the fact that his ability to forsee Hip Hop the way he did put you in the position to be on television right now … you’re sitting on television because of his efforts. And you wanna talk about oils!?”
Elsewhere in the nearly hour-long video, Wright blasts Badu for not posting a single thing about Malik, claiming the late MC was the “only one” who gave her respect when she came to Philly. She also set her crosshairs on Jill Scott, Talib Kweli and more.
Check out Wright’s full video above and Questlove’s Instagram post below.
Black women: Not good.
Y’all hate us. It shows in in your words and actions on a daily basis. We got us.
Check the interracial violence stats- it’s pretty clear you’re not a fan of whites. No problem. Just do us all a favor and beat it, you tramp 🙂
Sweet Justice, as a Latina I don’t blame anyone for hating “y’all” at this point. You’ve been exposed as a bunch of bigots who are demanding special treatment over some bullshit made up systemic racism. We all got along fine for a while there until your lot let the divide and conquer agenda run your lives. Have fun backing up thugs like George Floyd for the rest of your lives.
As a “latina” whether you call yourself Daily Reminder or whatever the fuck, you and your whole race can fuck off, you funky illegal alien bitch, that’s assuming you’re not some nasty-ass white bitch pretending. This is about Jaguar Wright, not George Floyd. So fuck you and the Taco you rode in on. Keep deporting these fuckers and Build That Wall, bitch.
Your Mammy’s not good either.
Damn!! She trying to burn the whole shit down but if ANY of it’s true…they deserve worse…
People suffering from addiction are a nigthmare to deal with, no matter how much you love them, so I wouldn’t blame the Roots members that much, but if that Common story is real I’m dead, x_x
Good gracious!!!
This beezy crazy
Common always been soft as shit
Never listen to his hippy back pack shit
What you wanna be a thug, a hippy a player?
Common was and always will be dog shit
Common has some fucking explaining to do. Black Thought, Questove, Jill Scott, Badu, Common…shame on all of you if this stuff from Jaguar Wright is true.
Fug outta here with your cancel culture crabs in a barrel ass. You prolly just wanna snif this bum hoes couch cushions or somethin
Common don’t have to force himself on an uggggo stop it
Keep victim shaming… It’s a great look dick head. Most men in power don’t have to force themselves, yet far too many of them are rapists.
I dont believe this shit for one minute, more metoo smearing of a real niggas name
Ice Cube is a hoe-ass bitch studio gangster from Encino. The only thing more bitchmade than Ice Cube are his hoe-ass fans.
Now Jaguar says that Common did what he did, BUT LEAVES OUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE GOING TOGETHER, if just for a hot minute. Still doesn’t make it right for Common to do that, but it changes the context completely. She’s mad that he dumped her for Erykah Badu, but she admits that she was fucking around with 2 other dudes, and a female and says Common was too “clingy”.
How she gonna get mad about Common creeping with Badu, when she was creeping with 3 DIFFERENT PEOPLE herself?
Damn, I thought the Soulquarians were untouchable. I guess not. I guess they’re canceled now. So much for Common’s EGOT.
The coldest part she said The Roots had a 65yr old hip-hop granny groupie,that’s nasty
I’M 65, WHAT’S SO “NASTY” ABOUT A “HIP HOP. zeroGRANNIE GROUPIE?!?!?!”
I invite u 2 view my profile; I AM THE NEW 45!!!
What’s “NASTY” about a 65yo “HIP Hop Granny Groupie?!?!?!
I welcome u 2 my profile, I’m 65 & the NEW 45!!! And all I wear r lashes/lipstick w/gloas!
Sound like some private circle shit that she’s airing out because her guy is dead from being a dopehead. Malik B. ain’t got nobody else to blame but himself if he couldn’t put the drugs down and didn’t want to get help for it. Airing people’s dirty laundry isn’t going to change that or bring him back.
Not sure I believe this, but Common is a self righteous idiot. He deserves this. LOL
Oooh WHEEEEEE!!!!!
Sounds like he’s just a funny guy, so basically he was trying to get some and she wasn’t in the mood, dude didn’t force anything he just tried and not with some stranget but with his actual girlfriend, so basically anytime a dude is trying to have sex with his girl and she’s not in the mood its gonna be sexual assault now? Foh
Yes. That’s basically what it is. Tf.
EXACTLY! They WERE dating! She is trying to rewrite history! He wasn’t just going around trying to stick his penis in her mouth AND the post she sent to Tiffany Haddish about Common was revealing! She put a hashtag in there – “IUsedToLoveHimToo”. That tells you ALL you need to know! The girl has issues!
If you don’t get this angry bulldagger dyke & Mike looking ass bitch the fuck outta here.. And to think I was gonna give her 99 cent goodwill discount clearance bin album a listen… These hoes are some cancerous bottom of the barrel crab ass bishes… She need to put a needle to her arm and join malik since she’s so miserable with life that she has to air out family business like this.. Like bitch go ahead and commit that and go to the next realm.. Earth got no more use for u and your angry stank pussy vibes
Questlove is that u?
U know what? Disregarding what I said earlier, Imma let this chick breathe.. 2020 is the year of the death of celebrities.. Everybody egos getting deaded.. As foul as she is for airing shit out in this manner, she might be a necessary evil.. If Them roots nagas was really out here running trains on 65 year old groupie grandmamas then I can’t defend that shit.. As far as that common shit, I think that shit is a stretch..
I have to say this. I have known Jaguar Wright for many years. I met her back when she was just making waves in Philly. She is talented, BUT she is the lesser version of Azealia Banks! Something is NOT right there! She has what I consider to be mental issues! She has never lived up to her potential and there is a reason. It is NOT because the girl isn’t talented. She, like Azealia Banks, is extremely talented, BUT she is missing a few screws! She just is, in my opinion! She was messing around with Common! He wasn’t just some guy from the streets trying to have sex with her! They DATED! They were in a relationship for a bit! A guy trying to have sex with you, who is DATING you, is a lot different than a guy just randomly going around trying to stick his penis in various mouths! Don’t people who date sometimes wake their partners up by trying to have sex? I wasn’t there in that moment with those two, but they were in a relationship for a hot minute and they were physical with each other. For her to come out and say NOW that he assaulted her in some way back then is OUTRAGEOUS and I think that people who were around during that time would stand up for him if he ever decided to sue her! You can’t recreate history just because you are now doing bad! I wish Jaguar the best. Sadly, I always thought her ego was bigger than her talent – which is REALLY saying something! If you watch her recent videos where she talks about her past and see how she behaves now, it should be clear that she isn’t right with her. She wasn’t right years ago and it looks like, to me at least, that she has only gotten worse. I hate when people have personal issues that overshadow their God-given talent! Jaguar certainly falls into that category to me! I think she needs professional help.