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Ever wonder what really happens backstage at major hip-hop concerts? The recent Summer Jam Hot 97 event became a hotbed of controversy when footage emerged showing an altercation between C-Black and members of Meek Mill's Dream Chasers crew. Now, for the first time, the young cameraman who captured that viral moment speaks out.

In this raw and unfiltered conversation, 20-year-old content creator MP takes us behind the scenes of Summer Jam, revealing how C-Black invited him backstage to network and build his brand. With remarkable candor, MP describes meeting hip-hop heavyweights like Jim Jones, Meek Mill, and Jadakiss before witnessing the confrontation that would soon dominate social media feeds across the culture.

MP dismantles several widely-circulated claims about the incident. According to his firsthand account, C-Black wasn't overwhelmed by thirty attackers but actually "gave them niggas so much of their money" in the fight. He categorically denies reports that C-Black had dreads pulled out during the altercation, calling those statements "all cap." Most surprisingly, MP reveals he never intended to share the footage publicly—it was accidentally sent while exchanging texts about Summer Jam content.

Throughout our conversation, MP's remorse is palpable as he repeatedly apologizes to C-Black and takes "full accountability" for his role in the footage becoming public. Despite the fallout, he expresses continued respect for C-Black and even recounts how simply mentioning C-Black's name had opened doors for him with other artists just days before the incident. The interview provides crucial context to a viral moment that had previously been shaped primarily by speculation and secondhand accounts.

Want the real story behind hip-hop's most talked-about recent incident? Listen to our exclusive interview with the man whose camera captured it all, and decide for yourself what really went down at Summer Jam.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Reporting live from the gutters, your boy Elliot
Carter.
I'm here with the cameramanthat was backstage at Summer Jam
Hot 97, with the Dream Chasersand C-Black, and you know he's
the one that actually recordedthe incident and sent it to me.
Go ahead and introduce yourself, brother.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
My name is MP.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
What's your Instagram ?
Tell them how they can followyou.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
MP underscore the darn all right.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
So how'd you get invited to summer jam?
How'd you end up at summer jamin the first place?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
because c black invited me and my other friend
because we both mad cool withhim.
He's a rapper and we do contentstuff like that.
So he did.
He birthed him to the room tolike network and to get content
to help us with.
So he did.
He birthed him to the room tolike network and to get content
to help us with our brand Like,to help us you know what I'm
saying To help us out more.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
To help y'all create content and get backstage.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
So he could help y'all create content and get
backstage.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay and uh.
How was your first Summer Jamoverall?
Did you get to create somecontent?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hell yeah Overall, besides the incident, that shit
was mad lit bro.
I got to meet all my favoriterappers, I got to network, I got
to meet this person, thatperson, I met a whole bunch of
people Pictures like this one.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Besides the incident, this shit was the most fun.
Who would you say is thebiggest three names that you met
at this summer jam?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Natalie done okay.
Cash Cobain.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Jim Jones and Meek Millen All right, that's what's
up.
So you was happy with yeah,Howie and Jadakiss.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, you was happy with the celebrities you got to
meet and the content you got tosee, absolutely, and I met way
more than that, but that wasjust the biggest though.
Okay, cool.
So tell me a little bit aboutyour backstage experience.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
It was all right, so it was mad lit.
We started off in the lounge atfirst.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
We started off in the lounge.
At first I met with rappers andshit like that, and then we got
backstage and started seeingmore rappers and stuff like that
.
Black started introducing us topeople.
I ain't going to lie to you.
I was so shocked that Blackknew all these people and he had
the power to get us back there,and to not only get us back

(02:40):
there but to introduce us tothem and they know him.
People in Staten Island don'treally have it like that, bro.
That was not only to get usback to you but to introduce us
to him and they know him.
Yeah, like like people inStaten Island people in Staten
Island don't really have it likethat, bro.
Like that was indifferent, likeyou know what I'm saying.
Like that showed that Black isthat nigga for real.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, definitely.
Oh yeah, so that took placewith the Dream Chasers and you
know exactly what happened andwho was involved.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Alright, so C-Black, me, c-black and Roddy Redwood
and etc.
It's all in the hallway andshit like that you heard.
So the nigga Black asked me toput his phone on the charger and
shit like that you heard.
So I put it on the charger andstarted using the bathroom and
shit, you heard After that whathappened After that?

(03:29):
Right, we just chilling, etcetera.
I'm just going back and forthseeing what's going on, checking
the scenery, just trying to seeeverything you heard.
As I walked towards that wayagain, I hear Black's phone
ringing and then I told Blackthat his phone was ringing and
shit, he went in the bathroomyou know what I'm saying and he
went in.
I think after that nigga Travand Meek Millinord and niggas

(03:52):
start walking in and shit, youheard, I think Trav was trying
to clear it out, some shit likethat.
I think Trav was trying toclear it out and shit like that
you heard, and I asked Trav tosay it her, and that's travis
saying that the nigga black axetrap like yo, what's up man, yo,
what's up man, and travel somelike shit, like he basically

(04:12):
moving like hollywood.
I'm saying like on some shitlike yo, what you mean, what's
up that?
I'm saying like I'm saying,like basically, like he don't
know, black, like he's, you know, bought some shit like that, he
basically he moved kind ofstandoffish, though you know
know what I'm saying.
So as that's happening, thenigga Black says yo, you don't
fuck with me, no more, you don'tremember me.
I don't remember every littlething that was said because it

(04:34):
was so much transpiring fast andshit in a moment.
So I pulled my phone out youfeel me?
Just to get some content.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm a content creator.
You know what I'm saying.
I didn't know nothing was goingto go.
I didn't know nothing was goingto like get out of it.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, you didn't think things would get out of
hand how they would?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I don't know.
I see Meek Mill's rap.
I see Meek Mill coming in andout the spot.
The nigga Ray Ray comes in.
He tries like like break it upand he doesn't realize he did
that cause more commotion, youheard it made it bigger than it
was you talking about thecomedian Ray Ray?

(05:13):
yeah, yeah, comedian Ray Rayfacts okay, and then, as like
nigga, they still talking andshit, nigga Trav sees my phone,
you know, yeah, he's trying tolike sees my phone, you know,
yeah, he's trying to like pushmy phone away.
He basically grabbed in my handlike he ain't smacking like,
pushed it down, like what youdoing?
Da-da-da-da-da.
Black Tom, chill, chill, chill,relax, relax.

(05:35):
What you doing?
Da-da-da-da-da?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Why he was upset that you was recording.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I think so.
I think it was set down andrecorded.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
So Black was trying to stick up for me and et cetera
.
So I think I don't know who, Idon't remember who really, who
really swung on first,da-da-da-da, but I know where
they started fighting and shitlike that.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
It was a lot of niggas, bro, in the video it
wasn't 30 niggas on him, so howmany niggas would you say was on
him in in general?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
it was a lot.
I I don't have, I don't have aspecific number, but there was a
lot of niggas.
It didn't show in the video buttrust, I was there.
You know I'm saying my eyesbetter than the camera.
I just know that.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
So how did the fight take place?
Like did they get the best ofBlack?
What happened?
Explain to me what happened.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm going to keep it 100 with you.
Black was giving them niggas somuch of their money I didn't
even know how to react.
I'm like, oh shit, like thisnigga was like on some hoax.
He was smashing them niggas.
The way he got through thatwhole way was punching them
niggas.
It was like a fucking moviescene, my nigga.
It didn't seem realistic, bro.
That scene was some shit yousee out of a movie or some shit

(06:58):
like that.
That nigga Black is as strongas a fucking ox.
That nigga's a different breed.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
When they say that they knocked his hat off.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Hat off, you know, I'm saying he was punching him
mad, fucking hard, bro.
Of course his head is gonnafall off, nigga, of course,
after all that shit was done,nigga, I gave him his hat back.
I gave all that shit fallingoff.
I gave him his hat back, I gavehim his full, I gave him his
phone back, the nigga shoes, theentire shit, nigga.
Of course his nigga's gonnafall and shit like that.

(07:29):
I gave him everything back.
You feel me, I gave himeverything back, bro, because he
was fighting.
He was fighting his ass.
So he was fighting like therewas no tomorrow, bro, he wasn't
getting his ass.
I'm telling you he wasn't, bro.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
So you're saying he was holding his?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
hell yeah, nigga hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
So when they say that they pulled out five of his
dreads, did you see dreads onthe floor?
Did you see?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
bro.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
No bro, that's all lies, bro, all cap bro and who
was the one that gave him backhis sneaker?
Nigga me, cause when I spoke toTrav, trav said he gave him
back his sneaker.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Nigga me Because when I spoke to Trav, Trav said he
gave him back his sneaker.
Bro, Trav is a liar bro,Everything that.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Black had.
I gave back to him, bro.
What happened after the fighttook place and how did the fight
end?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I think the security started coming in and the boys
came in.
They kind of removed Black andme from that certain spot and
shit.
But, believe it or not, wedidn't get kicked out of the
building, black didn't getkicked out of the building and I
didn't get kicked out of thebuilding.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
So where'd y'all go afterwards?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
We were just chilling in the lobby.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I need like, not far like right near the stage for
real.
So what did you do after thefight took place?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
First thing.
First, you was texting me andshit like that.
Honestly speaking, this is afact.
I didn't even mean to send youthat shit, bro, it was just.
I used to write texts.
I'm like, oh shit, I said giveme a second, this nigga is full.
I didn't even mean to send youthat shit, bro, it was just.
I used to write texts.
I'm like, oh shit, I said giveme a second.
The nigga, meek Mill, thisnigga is his fault.
You feel me?
I remember he was texting me.
Yo, give me some footage andshit for the summer jam and shit
like that, because it's like apost shot.
Like you was trying to show uslove.

(09:18):
Could we backstage at did that?
I didn't mean to do that shitpurposely.
I made a mistake.
It is what it is.
But listen, I was not trying toget C Black in, no fucking
trouble.
I wasn't trying to get him in,no shit bro.
Why would I do that if hebrought me to Summer Jam?
He tried to do my copy creatorshit.
I was in.

(09:39):
I was really waiting.
I was recording to wait to seeMeek Mill come inside.
I was really trying to get Meekin the video, bro.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
So did you get to chop it up with Meek or say
what's up to Meek after?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Nah, I just seen him, though, bro.
Nah, I didn't get to talk tohim.
That's why I'm really tightLike damn.
That shit went completely left.
That wasn't supposed to go downlike that, bro.
Yeah, I really apologize toBlacks.
That was not my intentions, bro.
That's not what I was trying todo.
I was just trying to do content, bro.
I'm not into.

(10:16):
I don't be on that tape or tellme, bro, you feel me, I'm not
going to destroy you withgrimy-ass.
I know Blacks since I was 15years old.
You know what I'm saying.
I old.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm 20 years old.
I know people keep on sayingI'm 16.
I'm 20 years old and it's notwhat I was meaning to do.
I came to have a good time anddo content.

(10:37):
So how'd you?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
get back home from the event.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I spent the night in my grandmother's house because
she lived in Elizabeth.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
How did Black leave the event?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I think Black drove home, or he got in a Black truck
home, I don't know for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Okay, so overall, how was your first summer jam?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Movie.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Would you go back with Black next year?
You want me to keep it a buck?
Yeah, keep it a buck.
Yeah, you would go back andpartake in the backstage
activities with C-Black again.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Absolutely.
I'll tell you what I wouldn'tdo, though I would have tried
harder to break it up.
And I ain't going to lie to you.
If I could go back in time, Iwould have gone between them.
Niggas like yo, bro, black weout.
Bro, I don't care.
Black well me up.
My nigga.
I already did try to save hislife.
He would have to be mad at methen, bro god, because for me
black is my man.
I should, shouldn't have wentdown like that.
But I feel like like you knowI'm saying like I feel like I

(11:43):
could have done way.
I did bad, but, bro, I didhorrible.
Bro.
I feel like I could have didway better and held my big bro
down better than I did.
Bro, I ain't going to keep iton you, with you, bro.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I respect that.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I definitely respect that.
I ain't going to lie.
I sincerely apologize toC-Black.
I apologize to my friends andmy family.
I don't want to make somethingI sold out now because I didn't.
Bro Trav was begging for thatvideo.
I ain't sending him shit, bro.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
When you say Trav, who's Trav, the nigga that black
fork?
The member of Meek's entourage?
Yeah, and he was begging youfor the video when at Not really
begging, but he kept asking meshit for it.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I told him no on the gram.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Why was he asking for the video?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I think he was trying to see his point of view about
what happened.
He said he had the video, but Ijust didn't believe him.
I throw it to 48 because hedidn't have it, so niggas want
to send it to him.
So I thought he was trying toget it out of me.
I'm too small for that gang.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I feel you.
So you never sent it to him,hell no.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Allegedly he said he got all the footage.
If it is, then it's not mine.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
So what else did Trav say to you?
That was it.
You have a message for Trav andthe Dream Chasers.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
I ain't gonna lie to you, I ain't gonna love you, I
ain't gonna understand themniggas bro, I'm a regular nigga.
Them niggas got money bro.
I can't really say too much tothem niggas bro.
It was just.
It was just a misunderstandinggoing wrong, bro, respectfully
bro, and you have to go downlike that.
You know what I'm saying andyou have to go.

(13:33):
And I took it down like that.
I took a full accountabilityfor my, for my part, in that
incident.
It was very dangerous, somebodycould have got killed and I did
bad, bro, and I'll tell you, Iain't gonna lie, I fucked up bro
yeah, well, you owned up to itand that's, that's the most
important part.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Shout out to C Black forbringing you to Summer Jam and
bringing you backstage and youknow what I'm saying and showing
you a new perspective ofcreating content.
And shout out to the other sidetoo Trav and the Dream Chasers.
You know what I'm saying, forkeeping it P, I guess.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like this nigga Black .
He doesn't realize that.
He know that I met a lot ofpeople because I mentioned his
name Even the day he hit us.
Black doesn't even notice.
The day before that you heard Iwent to a 4-1 concert.
That nigga Touch of Mill 4-1'sme, me, you know 4-1.
And them niggas Kyle Rich andthem niggas yeah, damn manager.
I said yo, you know my big broC-Black, that's all I say.

(14:38):
Right.
He said, bro, give me a secondright.
He said, bro, welcome here,real quick, girl Kyle Rich and
them niggas come out the car andI got a picture, picture with
him Just over C Black's name.
For real, yeah, that's what'sup.
Like that nigga Black bro.
Like that nigga bro.
Like I know we're on the bestof turns right now, but I really

(15:00):
appreciate what you did and hedoes other shit to me.
I'm not gonna speak on his shit.
Like that Black is a real nigga, though yo, he ain't deserve to
go out like that.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, that's a fact Shout out to.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
C Black.
He ain't deserve to go out likethat.
Bro, I fucked up.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
bro, I ain't gonna front and we'll end it at that
man.
Lftg signing out.
I appreciate you voicing youropinion on this platform.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
No problem bro.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
You're ready.
One.
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