In a latest interview, Lance “Un” Rivera mentioned that Jay-Z wasn’t the one that stabbed him at a membership in 1999.
In a DJ Vlad interview, which premiered on Saturday (Might 20) on YouTube, Lance “Un” Rivera was requested to recall the occasions that led as much as his near-fatal stabbing on the now-defunct Package Kat Membership in December 1999. In keeping with studies, Jay-Z was upset that his third album Vol. 3… Life and Instances of S. Carter fell sufferer to rampant bootlegging earlier than its official launch. The rap rumor mill purported it was producer Lance Rivera who was chargeable for the leak.
On that fateful night time, Rivera attended a launch get together for Q-Tip’s Amplified album on the Package Kat Membership when he was stabbed with an eight or nine-inch blade allegedly by the fingers of Jay-Z and his entourage.
Jay-Z reportedly was additionally in attendance and was allegedly close by when the incident occurred. The Brooklyn rhymer was later accused of stabbing Rivera and turned himself in to police. After a two-year authorized battle, Jay-Z was sentenced to a few years of probation.
“What occurred that night time…I confirmed as much as assist [Q-Tip]. Jay, a bunch of us is in there. I ended up getting surrounded by a bunch of individuals. It was in all probability 10 knives that I knew of, and I ended up getting stabbed on the Package Kat Membership,” Rivera recalled on the three minute-mark within the video beneath.
When requested if Jay-Z was the one that stabbed him, Rivera empathically mentioned, “No. Jay-Z was not the man that really stabbed me that night time.”
Nonetheless, Rivera talked about that he and Hov had a dialog earlier than he was assaulted. The previous file government claimed that Jay stored repeating to him, “you broke my coronary heart, you broke my coronary heart.”
“Me and Jay-Z had a dialog proper earlier than I acquired hit within the head with a champagne bottle,” he detailed. “It was a short dialog and I used to be taking a look at him like, ‘What are you speaking about? You already know you f**king the cash up proper now.'”
Rivera mentioned that he does not know the way the story of Jay-Z stabbing him got here into existence. The filmmaker had solely sort phrases to share concerning the Roc Nation co-founder.
“I don’t know the place folks acquired Jay-Z stabbed me from as a result of if anyone is aware of Jay-Z, Jay-Z’s a pleasant man,” he attested. “He’s an artist, he is a poet, he is gifted and it is by no means been his historical past.”
“If Jay-Z had stabbed me, y’all wouldn’t have gotten The Black Album as a result of via my complete historical past, I’m an eye-for-an-eye kind of man,” he continued.
Rivera added that he was stabbed within the again close to his shoulder and never within the stomach and shoulder as earlier media retailers reported in 1999.
