The partnership between the NFL and Jay-Z and his leisure firm, Roc Nation, gained’t change regardless of a girl accusing the rapper and enterprise mogul of raping her when she was 13 years previous, league commissioner Roger Goodell stated Wednesday.
Jay-Z, whose actual title is Shawn Carter, was added as a defendant Sunday to a civil lawsuit filed in opposition to fellow hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs in U.S. District Court in New York. The criticism, initially filed in October, now alleges that the 2 males raped the 13-year-old at a celebration after the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
Combs and Jay-Z have denied the accusations, with the latter issuing a prolonged assertion Sunday vowing to battle the “idiotic” costs.
Goodell addressed the difficulty with reporters following the conclusion of the NFL homeowners conferences in Irving, Texas.
“We’re conscious of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s actually robust response to that,” Goodell stated. “And we all know clearly the litigation’s taking place now. And from our standpoint, our relationship just isn’t altering with them, together with our preparations for the subsequent Super Bowl.”
In 2019, Roc Nation signed a cope with the NFL to seek the advice of on stay music leisure and social justice points. The partnership has resulted in a number of well-received Super Bowl halftime reveals — together with performances by the Weeknd, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez as co-headliners, Rihanna and a West Coast hip-hip lineup that featured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and extra — and was renewed in October.
Kendrick Lamar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper who had three Billboard No. 1 hits in 2024, would be the halftime performer at Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Music celebrity Beyoncé, who’s Jay-Z’s spouse, will carry out throughout halftime of the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans recreation on Christmas Day on Netflix.
“I feel they’re getting extremely comfy with not simply the Super Bowl however different occasions they’ve suggested us on, helped us with,” Goodell stated of Roc Nation. “They’ve been useful within the social justice space to us on many events. They’ve been nice companions which have offered loads of nice worth for us.”
Combs has been charged by federal prosecutors with crimes together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering. No co-conspirators have been named, however the prosecutors have acknowledged their investigation is ongoing.
