Overview

• Dame Dash asserts the nightclub incident was driven primarily by a personal dispute involving Charli Baltimore.
• He relayed the claim in a new interview with The Art of Dialogue, saying talk of alleged bootlegging came up weeks later.
• The long-accepted narrative has focused on Rivera allegedly pirating Jay‑Z’s Vol. 3 album, which Dash downplays in this account.
• The legal record stands unchanged, with Jay‑Z’s 2001 guilty plea to third‑degree assault and a three‑year probation sentence.
• Conflicting stories persist, as Rivera said in a 2023 VladTV interview that Jay‑Z was not the stabber, while Cam’ron has long linked the dispute to Baltimore.