Charli Baltimore has had enough of Damon Dash dragging her name into his long-standing beef with Jay-Z, particularly concerning rumors that have circulated for nearly three decades. The veteran rapper sat down with "The Art Of Dialogue" to put an end to Dash's repeated claims about her alleged past connections to both Jay-Z and the late Lance “Un” Rivera, making it crystal clear she’s weary of being weaponized in someone else’s war.
Dash has recently reignited these controversial narratives, especially in the wake of Jay-Z's freestyle at the Roots Picnic on May 30, 2026, where many interpreted some bars as direct shots at his former Roc-A-Fella partner. Baltimore finds Dash's persistent references to be escalating and confusing, questioning his motives and whether he's simply trolling. "I just feel like every time he said it, the story kind of gets wilder and wilder. I don’t know if Dame is trolling. I don’t really know what he’s doing," she stated in the interview.
The origins of this decades-old drama trace back to 1999 when Jay-Z allegedly stabbed Un Rivera at the Kit Kat Club. However, the narrative Charli Baltimore finds herself entangled in began earlier, specifically in 1997 when she was signed to Un’s Untertainment Records for her debut album, 'Ice.' This association inadvertently placed her within a storyline that has continued to haunt her career.
Further complicating matters, rapper Cam'ron famously claimed in 2006 that the stabbing wasn't about bootleg CDs as widely believed, but rather about Charli Baltimore herself. He even included these assertions in his diss track "You Gotta Love It." Baltimore distinguishes between Dash's right to recount Roc-A-Fella's history and his decision to involve her in what she views as baseless gossip.
"I have an issue with men gossiping about other men, but that’s just how I feel about it. I have an issue with that. He literally could go on podcast and talk about Roc-A-Fella all day long because that’s his that’s his legacy. You know, he put that together. He was a trailblazer. The gossip? I don’t get that," she explained, emphasizing her frustration with men engaging in such talk.
Baltimore argues that she has become unintended collateral damage in a feud between two men. She feels that Dash does not have the right to tell her story or use it as ammunition. "I just don’t feel like I should be collateral damage in it. That’s not your story to tell. That’s gossip. I honestly don’t think that he’s saying it to be malicious towards me. I just feel like he’s talking and he has no filter," she elaborated. She pointed out the impropriety of such gossip, given that Jay-Z is now a married man with children, stating, "I mean this is a whole married man with kids. These shots are all aimed at Jay, but I’m catching strays and I’m like I don’t want to be a part of this."
Crucially, Baltimore highlighted the complete lack of evidence supporting Dash's claims. "There’s no wins in the situation. You feel me? But me just being the type of person I am, I look at it from the latter, which is Un is doing whatever Un is doing. Jay is a married man. Why am I getting thrown up in these stories?" she questioned. According to Lance Rivera himself, Charli has legitimate grounds to pursue legal action against Dash for defamation, adding legal weight to her claims that Dash's statements are unsubstantiated and damaging.
The bottom line: Charli Baltimore is taking direct aim at Dame Dash, calling him out for spreading unproven claims and using her as bait in his never-ending battle with Jay-Z. At this point, it's a relic of hip-hop's past being dragged into the present, and Charli is rightly pushing back, emphasizing that she’s not here to be collateral damage in a beef that’s nearly 30 years old. While Dash has the right to tell his side of the Roc-A-Fella story, Baltimore insists he needs to leave the gossip and the rumors about her out of it, especially considering Jay-Z is now a married father. With Lance Rivera reportedly backing her stance, this could get dicey. It's a veteran MC standing up for her legacy, and that's a move Plugged Soundz respects.
