By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter
Hip-hop’s first billionaire, Shawn Carter, popularly known by his stage name Jay-Z, vowed to show Texas trial lawyer Tony Buzbee that he is not a celebrity to be toyed with after being accused along with fellow rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in a civil lawsuit Sunday of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
“You have made a terrible error in judgement thinking that all ‘celebrities’ are the same. I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have very strict codes of honor. We protect children, you seem to exploit people for personal gain,” Carter, who is married to singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, said in a statement shared on Instagram by his recording company, Roc Nation, calling the allegations “a blackmail attempt.”
“Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics (sic), will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable. I look forward to showing you just how different I am.”
