Speaker 1: I want to follow up on a story we've been
Speaker 1: talking about on the podcast since last week and involves
Speaker 1: Jay Z. The One and Only JC, also known as
Speaker 1: Sean Carter, was attached to a civil lawsuit filed last
Speaker 1: week accusing him and Sean Diddy Combs of raping a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old more than twenty years ago. The alleged
Speaker 1: incident happened back in two thousand at an MTV Video
Speaker 1: Music Awards after party. Cardy immediately came out swinging to
Speaker 1: his defense, of course, saying criminal charges should be filed
Speaker 1: against anyone who would commit such a heinous crime. His
Speaker 1: defense attorneys also filed motions to name the victim, who
Speaker 1: is now thirty eight years old, or to drop the
Speaker 1: suit altogether. Meanwhile, Carter's lead attorney, Alex Spiro pointed out
Speaker 1: inconsistencies in the alleged victim story, who sat down with
Speaker 1: NBC News last week in an exclusive interview. Among the
Speaker 1: inconsistencies he noted were the following. Jane Doe's description of
Speaker 1: the home doesn't match any of Sean Combe's properties at
Speaker 1: the time. Spiro also says he ain't Dill claimed she
Speaker 1: snuck out the house to attend the VMA's and watched
Speaker 1: on a jumbo tron outside. Well, MTV did not construct
Speaker 1: the JumboTron for the two thousand VMAs. Again, this is
Speaker 1: all according to Jay Z's attorney, who spoke out today.
Speaker 1: Here's the point. What really really happened is that NBC
Speaker 1: News reported leading into the weekend that the alleged victim
Speaker 1: admitted inconsistencies with what she had initially said. Now, she
Speaker 1: didn't come out and say that mean that what happened
Speaker 1: to her didn't happen in fairness to her, but there
Speaker 1: are inconsistencies. And as I said before, I'm not here
Speaker 1: to cast the spurgs on her or anything like that.
Speaker 1: That would be irresponsible. Nor am I here to cast
Speaker 1: the spurss on the lawyer. I'll leave Jay Z and
Speaker 1: his team to do all of that. What I said
Speaker 1: to people is what I'll say one more time. I've
Speaker 1: known the man for twenty five years and I've never
Speaker 1: ever ever seen anything that would indicate that he would
Speaker 1: be guilty of such a thing. And some people are
Speaker 1: sitting up there saying, man, Stephen a full of it,
Speaker 1: which you mean you don't know me? All right? Fine,
Speaker 1: there are people that got family members that commit hainous
Speaker 1: acts and they would have never imagined it. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: But folks are sitting there and they're talking about well,
Speaker 1: you know, stephen A. You mean, who the hell is he?
Speaker 1: And you talk about a friend. What kind of friend
Speaker 1: are you really? I'm known for twenty five years. I
Speaker 1: know O g wan is right hand, just as long
Speaker 1: I've known Michael Kaiser, I've known my boy spank, Gary Stevens.
Speaker 1: I've known plenty of people who have been around and
Speaker 1: they are befriended them. We've all been around each other together.
Speaker 1: Not that I have to justify to anybody, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna set the reconstrator one damn thing once and for all.
Speaker 1: This is stephen A baby. I'm not somebody working, and
Speaker 1: not to discredit anybody that does. Don't do this becaus
Speaker 1: long as you earn an honest living. I got nothing
Speaker 1: but mad respect for you. But I love how people
Speaker 1: talk to me like, oh my lord, I must be
Speaker 1: jock sniffing, And you know, because of the stars. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: I am a star in this business. This is what
Speaker 1: I do and I'm not working some nine to five
Speaker 1: in the post office or somewhere elsewhere. I never get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to be around these people. These people had
Speaker 1: sports events all the time. I've gotten to know these
Speaker 1: people because they made it a priority to get to
Speaker 1: know me, because they love sports. I wouldn't accuse them
Speaker 1: of sniffing just because they wanted to get to know me.
Speaker 1: Just because you don't like my opinion or you might
Speaker 1: disagree with where I'm coming from, doesn't mean that I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell I'm talking about, or that
Speaker 1: I have no connections with people. I have a connection
Speaker 1: with lots of people because I'm stephen A. Because my
Speaker 1: day job involves me working for the world Wide Leader,
Speaker 1: which everyone happens to watch. You see these cats when
Speaker 1: they in concert, whether it's a rap artist, it's a comedian,
Speaker 1: You see sports figures when they're performing. You just happen
Speaker 1: to see me every weekday over the number one sports
Speaker 1: network in the world, which by the way, is the
Speaker 1: number one show for the last thirteen years. Coming this April,
Speaker 1: that would be me. So the next time y'all want
Speaker 1: to run your mouth and act like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what does he know? Does he know jay Z or whatever? Yes?
Speaker 1: I know him, Yes I do, forty forty I used
Speaker 1: to go there religiously just to walk up Steve go
Speaker 1: in the back and hang out with him and the
Speaker 1: crew to watch games. I've known him for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: and I don't believe that he's capable of something like this.
Speaker 1: That's all. I have no evidence. I'm not casting in
Speaker 1: these versions on the accuser or their lawyer or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just telling you I got a right
Speaker 1: to speak up for somebody that i've known that long
Speaker 1: to say that's not what I see when I see him.
Speaker 1: And I'm a repeating end here by saying what I
Speaker 1: said to y'all last week. If someone would have ever
Speaker 1: accused me of such a thing, I would hope that
Speaker 1: people who have known me for decades would sit up
Speaker 1: there and say, hell no, not stephen A. Because if
Speaker 1: they were quiet, it would hurt me. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: you have nothing to say in my defense, nothing, You
Speaker 1: just gonna leave me hanging like that. I'm not casting
Speaker 1: you the cast I'm not asking you the casters persons
Speaker 1: or anybody else. I'm simply saying, you just gonna leave
Speaker 1: me hanging like that. See, that's the punk ass world
Speaker 1: we live in now, where folks are literally scared to say. Remember,
Speaker 1: you're not casting. You're not sitting up there and saying
Speaker 1: somebody is innocent. You're not saying somebody else is lying.
Speaker 1: You're not doing anything like that. You're saying, that's a
Speaker 1: friend that I've known for X amount of years. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that's in them. You can't say that. That's
Speaker 1: the punk ass world we live in where people scared
Speaker 1: because they worried about their jobs and everything else to
Speaker 1: speak up for somebody. But then it was okay with
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, and then that's the Football League put out
Speaker 1: a statement saying they're aware of the allegations, but they're
Speaker 1: still moving forward. We're working with Rock Nation to Jay
Speaker 1: Z with the Super Bowl halftime show. Then it was okay,
Speaker 1: soory to conglomerate the big fish, the mammoth that is
Speaker 1: the National Football League. They could speak up, that's okay.
Speaker 1: They just started doing business with JJ a few years ago.
Speaker 1: But somebody that's been around it for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: can y'all full of it? Y'all are just full of it.