Rymir Satterthwaite insists he’s not after Jay-Z’s money or fame. He just wants answers.
The paternity lawsuit against Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has been dropped. But for those hoping this would mean the end of the decade-long rumors surrounding the man claiming to be the rapper’s son, you have another thing coming.
Rymir Satterthwaite has been trying to prove Jay-Z is his biological father for years, but according to him, Jay and his team just keep sabotaging and dodging his efforts to do so. That’s why he filed a lawsuit against the rapper in May, but two months later on July 24, he officially withdrew the case. Still Satterthwaite said this is not the end of his battle.
He took to Instagram live on July 26. “It’s been a crazy couple weeks. I just want to let y’all know, I have not stopped my fight,” Satterthwaite said in the video. “I did withdraw my case. It’s for a reason, y’all. It’s not ’cause I’m stopping with it or not gonna refile it or anything like that. It’s just a lot going on behind closed doors.”
Although Satterthwaite didn’t get into much detail about the alleged happenings “behind closed doors,” he did claim he was being “bullied” in court by Jay’s legal team. “We sitting back and playing chess, not checkers,” he continued.
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His original lawsuit claimed Hov got his mother Wanda pregnant in the ’90s, when he was 22 years old and she was only 16. His mother passed in 2019, according to the New York Post, but before then, she told Satterthwaite that the “Takover” rapper was his biological father. This sparked a decade of the now-31-year-old trying to prove his mother right.
Jay-Z has largely stayed away from addressing Satterthwaite’s claims in public. He made a brief mention of the case in “HEARD ABOUT US,” rapping, “Billie Jean in his prime / For the thousandth time, the kid ain’t mine / Online they call me ‘dad,’ kiddingly / You’re not supposed to take this dad thing literally.”
But two weeks before Satterthwaite’s case was dropped, Jay’s lawyers issued a statement. They referred to the man’s suit as part of a “decades-long harassment campaign.” Meanwhile, Jay has been living his life unbothered. He recently performed with his wife, Beyoncé on the Cowboy Carter World Tour.
Satterthwaite insists he’s not after the rapper’s money or fame. He just wants answers. He continued on Instagram, “I have not gotten any DNA test. I have not gotten any settlement or anything. I wouldn’t just take it. I would let y’all know. Even if it wasn’t y’all business.”
