22 years after Jay-Z pleaded responsible to stabbing him, Lance 'Un' Rivera says the rapper is harmless

• Lance “Un” Rivera has mentioned that it was not Jay-Z who infamously stabbed him in 1999.
• Jay-Z pleaded responsible and was sentenced to 3 years probation for the assault in 2001.
• “I do not know the place folks acquired Jay-Z stabbed me from,” mentioned the previous music government.

Former music government and file producer Lance “Un” Rivera has gone on the file to say that it was not Jay-Z who infamously stabbed him in 1999.

Rivera, as soon as the enterprise associate of The Infamous B.I.G., was stabbed within the abdomen and shoulder in December ’99 on the now-closed Package Kat Membership in New York Metropolis.

The stabbing is alleged to have occurred after Jay confronted Rivera over studies that he had leaked his third studio album, “Vol. 3… Life and Occasions of S. Carter,” earlier than its launch.

The “Large Pimpin'” rapper was subsequently charged in reference to the assault and turned himself in to the police the next day. After initially pleading not responsible and denying any wrongdoing, in October 2001, he pleaded responsible to third-degree assault and was sentenced to 3 years probation.

“I stabbed Lance Rivera,” Jay mentioned throughout his court docket look on the time, in keeping with the BBC.

In an interview with DJ Vlad printed on Sunday, Rivera recalled his model of what went down on the evening.

“Jay, a bunch of us is in there,” mentioned Rivera. “I ended up getting surrounded by a bunch of individuals. It was most likely 10 knives that I knew of, and I ended up getting stabbed.”

“Me and Jay-Z had a dialog proper earlier than I acquired hit within the head with a champagne bottle,” he added. “It was a quick dialog and I used to be taking a look at him like, ‘What are you speaking about? You understand you fucking the cash up proper now.'”

Requested if it was Jay who stabbed him, Rivera replied: “No. Jay-Z was not the man that truly stabbed me that evening.”

“I do not 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 mentioned. “He is 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 would not have gotten ‘The Black Album’ as a result of, by means of my complete historical past, I am an eye-for-an-eye kind of man,” he concluded.

Representatives for Jay-Z didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.