Speaker 1: On this particular day.
Speaker 2: We're gonna start with the whole jay Z thing, because
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm pissed off. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty pissed off at a lot of people. I'm pissed
Speaker 2: off at some folks in the public. I'm pissed off
Speaker 2: for some folks in my own damn family. I'm pissed
Speaker 2: off at folks on my staff. I'm pissed off at everybody. Okay,
Speaker 2: because I don't like to be misconstrued. It kind of
Speaker 2: gets on my last damn nerves. So we're gonna get
Speaker 2: started by touching on this subject and attacking it with
Speaker 2: the level of candor and clarity that I like. Okay,
Speaker 2: so there's no mimicking or muttering behind closed doors. All right,
Speaker 2: We're going to get started with the jay Z headlines,
Speaker 2: obviously for all of you who didn't know was sleeping.
Speaker 1: Under a rock.
Speaker 2: He was named in a lawsuit earlier this week alongside
Speaker 2: Sewan Diddy Coombs. The suit accuses both men of raping
Speaker 2: a thirteen year old girl more than twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: Jay Z came out swinging in his defense, calling out
Speaker 2: the attorney Tony Busby, who reportedly approached jay Z with
Speaker 2: a demand letter before attaching his name in the Diddy suit.
Speaker 2: Jay Z even called on Buzzby to file a criminal complaint.
Speaker 2: Here's the statement from jay Z and the immediate aftermath
Speaker 2: of the news breaking quote. These allegations are so heinous
Speaker 2: in nature that I employ you to file a criminal complaint,
Speaker 2: not a civil one. Whomever would commit such a crime
Speaker 2: against the minor should be locked away. Would you not
Speaker 2: agree these alleged victims would deserve real justice.
Speaker 1: If that were the case. End quote.
Speaker 2: In the aftermath of the many have wondered what impact
Speaker 2: the allegations would have on jay Z and his businesses.
Speaker 2: His company, Rock Nation has a partnership deal with the
Speaker 2: National Football League to produce the Super Bowl half Tom
Speaker 2: shil Here's what Commissioner Roger Goodell of the NFL had
Speaker 2: to say this week when asked about the suit.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: We are aware of the civil allegations and jay Z's
Speaker 2: really strong response to that. We know obviously that litigation
Speaker 2: is happening, but from our standpoint, our relationship is not
Speaker 2: changing with them, including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: End quote. One could easily.
Speaker 2: Surmize that saying innocence until proven guilty. But we won't
Speaker 2: even go there. We won't even go there, and any
Speaker 2: interest to full disclosure. When I say family, I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about immediate family. You talk about cousins and aunts
Speaker 2: and people like that. You're talking about people who you
Speaker 2: consider family. You're talking about people that you work with
Speaker 2: every day, colleagues and all of this other stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, I have tremendous people that work for me.
Speaker 2: I'm very proud of myself, and even though I'm getting
Speaker 2: the ass a lot of times when especially when they
Speaker 2: get on my last damn nerves as they have done today. Okay,
Speaker 2: in the end, I want to preface my comments about
Speaker 2: them and anybody who.
Speaker 1: Thinks like them, some of them.
Speaker 2: I want to preface my comments by saying, I know
Speaker 2: they're doing it to look out for me, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. But I can appreciate you looking out for
Speaker 2: me and still be annoyed as shit at you. Because
Speaker 2: That's where I'm going here, And the reason why I'm
Speaker 2: going in this direction, ladies and gentlemen, is because I
Speaker 2: want you to understand something. When I spoke about jay
Speaker 2: Z and I saw my comments all over social media,
Speaker 2: and I saw it everywhere. You didn't hear me I
Speaker 2: had knowledge of the case. You didn't hear me saying
Speaker 2: I had knowledge of who Jane Doe is. You didn't
Speaker 2: hear me say that I knew a sentilla of what
Speaker 2: the hell these allegations entail. Other than what all of
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know anything. I'm not espousing innocence
Speaker 2: or guilt from a literal perspective. But what I'm saying
Speaker 2: to you, to all of yours in America, in the
Speaker 2: Baya and Abu Dhabi, where I just came from, to Africa,
Speaker 2: to England and France, and everywhere in between, what I'm
Speaker 2: saying to you is this, If you're known somebody for
Speaker 2: twenty five years, do you not have the right to
Speaker 2: say I've known that person for twenty five years. I
Speaker 2: can't see that. I can't see that happening. Do you
Speaker 2: know how I would feel? I have somebody that works
Speaker 2: for me, Mama Rashan. I got my man Galen that
Speaker 2: I've known for twenty five years, both of them, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five years. I've got people in the industry that
Speaker 2: are my friends and my kind, not just my colleagues
Speaker 2: and temporaries.
Speaker 1: My friends they've known me for decades. Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith gets accused of rape. Y'all got nothing to say nothing.
Speaker 2: You're just gonna sit there and have nothing to say,
Speaker 2: Just gonna let me hang out there. If you believe
Speaker 2: in your heart, damn, I've known her for twenty five years.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine him being guilty of such a thing.
Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna say that. Nobody. There's nobody in this world
Speaker 2: that you say that about. If that's your answer, I
Speaker 2: feel sorry for you, because that means you don't believe
Speaker 2: in anybody. You don't have a heart and a soul
Speaker 2: enough inside of you to imagine that somebody's core decency
Speaker 2: is just too much to think that they would do
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: That is a generic statement. That is not impuning.
Speaker 2: The alleged accuser, the accuser. That is not impuning even
Speaker 2: the lawyer. We certainly wouldn't impune the courts. We wouldn't
Speaker 2: do that. But I would hope that if somebody knows
Speaker 2: you for twenty five years and you consider them a friend,
Speaker 2: that you can say.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't imagine that. I can never see
Speaker 1: them doing something like that. I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: You literally have people scurrying in this industry and advising
Speaker 2: other people. It's not just me, it's a whole bunch
Speaker 2: other people. Oh, don't say anything. Don't say anything. Oh,
Speaker 2: you can't say that. I can't say I know nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm not casting the supurses on anybody. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 2: The person that I have known for twenty five years.
Speaker 1: That I have seen.
Speaker 2: Around young ladies is not a person I could ever
Speaker 2: imagine doing something like that.
Speaker 1: I can't say that because that's all I said.
Speaker 2: Anything else to go any further would be irresponsible, It
Speaker 2: would be stupid.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe I'm either. So when people come
Speaker 1: and they want.
Speaker 2: You to be so ultra ultra, ultra careful, I understand
Speaker 2: the careful part.
Speaker 1: I understand it.
Speaker 2: But shouldn't you be careful enough to actually listen to
Speaker 2: my words? You see, this is the same platform where
Speaker 2: I was raked through the colds for months.
Speaker 1: Because I was accused of lumping.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and criminality in the black community. When I
Speaker 2: was asked a question about his direct supporters and how
Speaker 2: they felt about his assertions that there was relatability, that
Speaker 2: is the question I was answering. It didn't stop the
Speaker 2: NAACP from opening their mouth. It didn't stop colleagues and
Speaker 2: contemporary from opening their mouth. I had friends that I've
Speaker 2: known for decades that opened.
Speaker 1: Their mouth.
Speaker 2: And just jumped on the bandwagon along with everybody.
Speaker 1: Else and forgot who I was.
Speaker 2: How you think I feel about them now? Because all
Speaker 2: you have to do is listen to what I said
Speaker 2: and say, Yo, that's not what he said. Maybe he
Speaker 2: should have said something differently, or maybe he's wrong. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about it, but the casters versus on them. Why
Speaker 2: do you think I get pissed off when I see
Speaker 2: people on podcasts and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Talking shit all the time. It's never with people that
Speaker 1: don't know me, and if you're an enemy like a.
Speaker 2: Couple of people are, because it's just a couple, is
Speaker 2: really just one that makes up a couple. But I
Speaker 2: ain't gonna go there today. Outside of that, I don't
Speaker 2: sweat it.
Speaker 1: You have a right to your opinion whoever you are.
Speaker 2: Just contextualize it accurately and stick to the actual issue,
Speaker 2: as opposed to using something to branch.
Speaker 1: Out and castigate people's characters.
Speaker 2: My sympathy and my empathy is extreme when it comes
Speaker 2: to anybody that has been raped. Women are obviously far
Speaker 2: more often victims of such a heinous crime than men.
Speaker 2: I have friends who are Muslims, who are Christians, who
Speaker 2: are Jewish, who are Catholic.
Speaker 1: Hell I even know a couple of atheists.
Speaker 2: And the people that I know, when it comes to
Speaker 2: issues of rape, they consider that tantamount murder.
Speaker 1: It to rape a woman is to kill her, to
Speaker 1: kill a part of her. There is nothing outside of
Speaker 1: literally taking her life.
Speaker 2: That is what you have done to her. It's just
Speaker 2: that blood is still circulating through our body and she's
Speaker 2: still able to breathe, but she's dead. It should never
Speaker 2: be condoned ever, and anybody who's guilty of that, at
Speaker 2: the very least should be.
Speaker 1: Thrown under the damn jail. Fine.
Speaker 2: Outside of that, if somebody is accused and they adamantly
Speaker 2: deny it, and you believe their character is incapable of
Speaker 2: such a thing, it's not you okaying such a heinous act,
Speaker 2: it's you saying that act is so heinous. I don't
Speaker 2: believe that person is capable of that, based on the
Speaker 2: person that I've known for twenty five years. And if
Speaker 2: I were ever the found to be wrong, I'd be sick.
Speaker 2: To my stomach, as we all should be simple. Forget
Speaker 2: jay Z for a second. I've got plenty of First.
Speaker 2: I got cast. I grew up with my man Cardell,
Speaker 2: my man Mark, Polly.
Speaker 1: Spank Ski, Boris, the cast that I went to school with,
Speaker 1: the casts that I grew up with.
Speaker 2: You come to me and tell me, and remember, I
Speaker 2: grew up in Hollis Queens. I grew up around drug
Speaker 2: dealers and drug users and yes, murderous, there's a.
Speaker 1: Few cats that I grew up with. They in jail
Speaker 1: are dead.
Speaker 2: So you don't vouch for everybody in terms of what
Speaker 2: you believe. But what you can say is those who
Speaker 2: you do feel that way about, you can never imagine
Speaker 2: them doing that because you never consider them a friend.
Speaker 1: If you could imagine them doing that, that's all. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I wanted to say about it, nothing else.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why that's controversial when I know that thing,
Speaker 2: I wasn't there. I have no idea who to accuse it,
Speaker 2: I don't know anything. All I was saying is that
Speaker 2: I know the guy for twenty five years. It's hard
Speaker 2: for me to imagine he could ever be guilt. Not
Speaker 2: that guy that I've been around, I can't imagine it.
Speaker 2: That's all, nothing more than that, nothing more