Oop! O.J. Simpson is finally breaking his silence over a line JAY-Z rapped about him on his track “The Story of O.J.,’ via his Grammy-nominated album ‘4:44.‘ The famed football player claims Hov got it all wrong, and misquoted him.
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O.J. Simpson Breaks Silence & Calls Out JAY-Z Over “The Story Of O.J.” Line: ‘F**k Being Black, This Is Me, It’s About O.J.’
As mentioned, JAY dropped a song back in 2017 called “The Story of O.J.,” and on the track, Hov notoriously rapped, “I’m not Black, I’m O.J. …okay.”
Well, six years later, the NFL Hall of Famer is breaking his silence on the infamous lyric, and is calling out the New York rapper for misquoting him, actually.
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On Friday April 7, artist and fashion designer Augustus Lymon shared a video on his clothing Instagram account, rareclothapparel. Lymon’s video featured him running up to O.J. Simpson and having a conversation with him on the fly.
While gifting the former NFL baller with some merchandise from his brand, Lymon goes on to ask O.J. about JAY-Z’s song about him. Needless to say, O.J. was quick to clear things up, noting that he wasn’t talking about race when he made the initial comment that JAY was referencing on the track.
O.J. explained, “Well, first of all, [JAY-Z] didn’t say it right. When Johnnie [Cochran] was talking to me about it, and all that was going on was ‘Black, Black, Black,’ I said man, f**k being Black, this is me. This is about O.J. You know?”
O.J. goes on to further clarify, “It wasn’t about Black or White. It was about, ‘These guys were after me.’ So, that’s how that was expressed. It wasn’t about, you know, ‘I’m not Black.’ It was about, ‘This ain’t about being Black, this is about me.'”
As O.J. mentioned, Hov was referencing a conversation O.J. had with Johnnie Cochran, who was a defense attorney in his 1995 murder trial — in which O.J. was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman a year prior.
During said murder trial, aside from Cochran, O.J. was also being represented by Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, F. Lee Bailey, Carl Douglas, and more, that made up his infamous “Dream Team” — who eventually got him acquitted of the double murder charges by a jury.
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