The assault looks unprovoked as HOVA walks into what looks like a backstage area of a concert venue.Īs Mr. Again, the footage was shared with sensational claims about what it showed, yet provided little in the way of context:Īpparently Jay-Z had a problem with a female in a shocking video that was pulled out of the archives of the Backstage DVD by HipHopDX.Īs of this time I have yet to hear from my numerous contacts at Roc-A-Fella in regards to Jay-Z’s side to this affair.īut, if pictures speak louder than words then Jigga-man has some explaining to do. This clip first appeared in a 2000 documentary called Backstage about Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Life Tour, but it didn’t start creating controversy until it was picked up by music gossip web sites in 2004. When we searched for more information about this clip, we found that the person in the video was an adult, not a child, that they were an old friend and employee, not a fan, and that all parties involved said that the altercation was friendly in nature.

Of course, that’s problematic as we never actually get a good look at the “victim” in this video, and its limited runtime provides little to no context about the encounter. The provided details also change with each posting: Is the girl 12? Is she a teenager? Did she try to hug Jay-Z or take his picture? Whatever the situation, it’s difficult to verify based solely on the images in this 3-second clip.

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