Charli Baltimore is drawing a hard line between defending her legacy and getting caught up in a decades-old beef that has nothing to do with her.
The legendary rapper sat down with “The Art Of Dialogue” to address Dame Dash’s repeated claims about her relationships with Jay-Z and Lance “Un” Rivera following Biggie’s death in 1997, and she’s making it clear that she’s tired of being used as ammunition in someone else’s war. Now Dame Dash has resurrected these claims, particularly after Jay-Z’s Roots Picnic freestyle on May 30, 2026, where Hov appeared to take shots at his former Roc-A-Fella partner.
The whole situation traces back to 1999 when Jay-Z stabbed Un at the Kit Kat Club, but the real origin story goes deeper. When Charli was signed to Un’s Untertainment Records for her debut album, Ice, in 1997, she became associated with a narrative that would haunt her for decades. Cam’ron famously claimed in 2006 that the stabbing wasn’t about bootleg CDs like people thought, but about Charli Baltimore herself, even rapping about it on his diss track “You Gotta Love It.”