Lance Rivera believes Jay-Z‘s alleged treatment of Dame Dash since their fallout is “some sucker shit.”
“I think was some sucker shit when they excluded him from the history of who he is and Roc-A-Fella and that Brooklyn Museum shit,” Rivera said. “I think it was unjust.”
Rivera appears to be referencing the “Book of Hov” exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library in which the late Irv Gotti spoke about the alleged absence of anything related to Dame Dash in his Drink Champs interview. Gotti took it a step further, justifying the alleged omission by arguing that the success of Roc-A-Fella “was all Hov,” adding, “Dame was along for the ride.”
“Yeah, Dame got his money,” Rivera continued. “He probably did some things that he did with his money that was, you know what I’m saying—but nah, he not supposed to be in the situation that he’s in.”
Dash’s financial woes primarily stem from back taxes, including $8.7 million to the state of New York. According to the New York Post, the state government spent $1 million for a 33.3 percent stake of Roc-A-Fella Records in an effort to recoup some of the money he owed.
Jay intervened with a court filing because the label owned the rights to his debut album Reasonable Doubt until 2031, when it would go back to him. The rapper wanted to ensure that the outcome of the auction would not put his eventual ownership in jeopardy.
Dame also owes more than $800,000 to filmmaker Josh Webber as part of a copyright infringement and defamation lawsuit.
Even though Jay has helped Lil Wayne with his taxes and offered a “lifeline” to Scarface during his health scare, Rivera takes issue with the Roc-A-Fella co-foundrer’s unwillingness to give Dame millions of dollars to get him out of his financial hole.
Rivera also revisited the claim that Jay stabbed him at New York City’s Kit Kat Club in 1999, calling back to his Vlad TV interview where he stated that was false.
Rivera acknowledged that there was confrontation over a number of issues, but it never led to a stabbing.
“I ended up getting surrounded by a bunch of people. It was probably 10 knives that I knew of, and I ended up getting stabbed at the Kit Kat Club,” he recalled, per Vibe.
“No. Jay-Z was not the guy that actually stabbed me that night,” he said, despite the rapper being arrested and charged over the incident.
Rivera said if Jay were actually the person who stabbed him, there would have never been The Black Album because “I’m an eye-for-an-eye type of guy.”
