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.

“I mean, that’s not the first time he said it. 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. All the interactions I’ve ever had with Dame, Dame was always on super CEO boss mode. But at the end of the day I feel like it’s stories and it’s gossip,” Charli explained during her recent interview.

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.”

She made a crucial distinction between Dame’s right to tell Roc-A-Fella’s history and his choice to drag her into 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 said.

The real problem, according to Charli, is that she’s become collateral damage in a conflict between two men.

“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 explained. She emphasized that Jay-Z is now a married man with children, making the entire situation even more inappropriate. “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,” Charli stated.

What’s most telling is that there’s literally no evidence supporting any of these 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 asked.

According to Lance Rivera himself, Charli has legitimate grounds to pursue legal action against Dash for defamation.