Tia Kemp denies Rick Ross busted Jazzma Kendrick’s lip; Says she did it to herself to get money from Ross

The livestream came two days after Kendrick posted photos of a swollen lip and wrote “He saw a punching bag”

Tia Kemp went live to reject claims that Rick Ross struck Jazzma Kendrick, saying Kendrick injured herself and did it “trying to get a bag.” The clip, shared by @livebitez on X, shows Kemp speaking directly to camera in a dark setting, wearing a black puffy jacket, delivering her remarks at raised volume with repeated rhetorical questions.

The livestream came after Kendrick posted a series of Instagram Stories on September 26 showing a swollen lip and writing “He saw a punching bag.” Kemp, who dated Ross from roughly 2003 to 2005 and shares a son with him, has spent two decades publicly criticizing him. Her decision to defend him on this specific allegation became the story’s central twist.

Ross has not publicly responded to Jazzma Kendrick or Tia Kemp.

Kendrick’s Photos and the “Punching Bag” Line

Jazzma Kendrick is a model and luxury real estate agent publicly linked to Ross since early 2025. She posted a series of Instagram Stories on September 26. One responded to a comment that she was “so gorgeous” and that the commenter could see “what Rick is seeing.” Kendrick wrote, “He saw a punching bag.”

Subsequent Stories included close-up images of a swollen and bruised lip. In addition, there was a photo in which she pulled her upper lip to show a purple bump or wound. Captions included “The day Rick busted my lip and the day I left” and “I don’t know a lot of things, but I do know that a man that puts his hands on me, is a man that never loved me and never will.” Another read, “It’s always good until it isn’t. If a man hits you one time, he will do it again. Don’t give him the opportunity. Value your life and leave.”

However, at the time, no police report had been publicly confirmed. Ross had not issued a statement. The pair had been publicly linked since early 2025 and were on and off, with Kendrick announcing a breakup after a brief period together before they were seen together again as recently as July. Online discussion had already focused on clips in which she appeared to pull away from Ross’s public affection at Miami events. No prior public accusation of physical assault by Ross against Kendrick had been reported before the September Stories.

Kemp Flatly Says Jazzma’s Claims Never Happened

On her live, Tia Kemp rejected Jazzma Kendrick’s core allegation. In a rare defense of her ex, Kemp said that Ross “ain’t finna do is hit nobody” and that Kendrick “fired on yourself” or “punched your […] self.” Then, she tied it to the claim that Kendrick injured herself directly to a financial motive. Directly, she said Kendrick did it “trying to get a bag.” After that, she added that she does not believe the account and that “it’s cameras all around that new state of the art house.” So, she was implying footage would disprove the accusation if retrieved.

Offering her opinion on the overall situation, Kemp framed the relationship between Ross and Kendrick as temporary. “You can’t stay in the mansion forever, it’s temporary, it’s called fun times,” Kemp said. She advised women that when a man tells them to go home they should leave. Acknowledging the hurt of rejection, Kemp described “that ride home with garbage bags of your clothes in that backseat” as painful. So, she urged listeners to “go home baby and keep a job,” presenting self-sufficiency as the alternative to staying in a luxury setting after being asked to leave.

Ultimately, she shifted to a warning she said she had previously given Ross. Tia recalled telling him to stop playing with certain women and asked a person she addressed as “Willy” whether she had issued that warning. Throughout the live, she used derogatory terms for Kendrick and stated she felt no sympathy. She said she planned to travel because she had a week off. With that, she said she intended to speak with Kendrick and Kendrick’s mother. Kemp added that any settlement would amount to “Wingstop wings or something.” Finally, she circled back to the money saying: “we ain’t got no money for you girl.”

Two Decades of Public Conflict

Tia Kemp dated Ross from 2003 until 2007. They share a son, William Leonard Roberts III, born September 2005, who later played high school and college football. Their co-parenting relationship has been public and frequently contentious for two decades. Kemp sued for paternity in 2007 and custody and support arrangements followed. Later, she made petitions to increase support as Ross’s income rose. In 2009, she published an autobiography that was critical of him.

She has repeatedly gone live and posted about child support, tuition, attendance at events, and Ross’s other relationships. In 2009-2010, she had a visible association with 50 Cent, Ross’s long-running rival, including interviews and public appearances around the same period as the book. In prior livestreams she had discussed Kendrick, including claims about adult content.

Kemp positioned herself in the livestream as “the biggest-mouth baddest […] this […] done wanted to drag for 20 years,” using her long public criticism of Ross as evidence she would not conceal violence if it were occurring. She stated that Ross “ain’t whoop […] since […] 2006,” that “he don’t touch […] no more,” and that “he’s scared” because of money and cameras. The 2006 reference functioned as a claim that his capacity for violence had a known endpoint once wealth and surveillance increased.

Opinions of Tia Kemp’s Rant Were Split on X

On X, sentiment split along several lines rather than a single consensus. There were some who treated Kemp’s defense as surprising and therefore informative. Users noted that Kemp “hates the ground Rick Ross walks on” and has spent years criticizing him, so her rejection of this particular claim was taken by some as evidence the allegation was weak. Comments included “you know how bogus yo lies gotta be for Tia Kemp to defend Rick Ross.”

Meanwhile, a large group of responses rejected her intervention as inconsistent or self-serving. Users asked how she could talk about Ross constantly as horrible and then defend him when a domestic-violence claim arose. Some called her a “bird,” said she had “no reason to defend him,” or argued she was making another woman’s claim about herself. A recurring point was that Kemp has accused Ross of failing to support their son, so defending him on violence looked opportunistic. One reply asked whether she thought he “just magically stopped hitting women in 2006.”

A large portion focused on Tia’s self-injury claim and the “bag” motive. Clip accounts repeated “she punched herself” and “trying to get a bag” as the headline. Some users found the wording humorous or characteristic of Kemp’s style. Others found it dismissive of a visible injury. Meanwhile, a significant amount of people stayed on the original allegation and 50 Cent’s remark. 50 Cent wrote that Ross “put his hands on baby girl,” linked the allegation to album sales, and added that he would laugh but “domestic violence is not a joke.” Coverage accounts summarized the sequence as: Kendrick posts, 50 Cent comments, Kemp disputes on livestream, Ross silent, no confirmed police report.

50 Cent Weighs in to Troll with His Two Cents

Given 50 Cent’s aforementioned history with Rick Ross, naturally he would offer commentary. During the same period as Tia Kemp’s response, 50 came into the situation. He wrote that Ross “put his hands on baby girl,” linked the allegation to album sales, and added that he would laugh but “domestic violence is not a joke.” The comment fit the long-running 50 Cent–Rick Ross feud, which has included diss records, social-media mockery, and earlier intersections with Ross’s ex-partners.

The response placed the accusation inside an existing beef rather than treating it as a standalone claim. 50 Cent has publicly feuded with Ross for years. So, his commentary on Ross’s personal life has been part of that beef pattern. His decision to address the allegation directly, while also tying it to Ross’s commercial performance, meant the domestic-violence claim entered the timeline through a familiar frame: one rival using another’s public troubles as material.

Kemp’s livestream and 50 Cent’s post landed in the same cycle and cut in opposite directions. 50 Cent treated the allegation as credible enough to comment on. Kemp treated it as fabricated. Neither response included new evidence about what happened to Kendrick’s lip. Ross himself stayed silent through both, leaving his ex-partner and his longtime rival to shape the public record of the claim before he had said anything about it.

Final Thought

The exchange illustrates how domestic-violence allegations involving high-profile men are absorbed into existing beefs, existing co-parenting wars, and existing debates about women in luxury relationships. Jazzma Kendrick’s posts used language common in survivor-advocacy framing. Tia Kemp’s livestream used a counter-framing common in online skepticism. This includes financial motive, surveillance as disproof, and character evidence.

No court finding, police confirmation, or on-camera statement from Ross resolving the factual dispute was part of the public record when the live circulated. The significance of Kemp’s remarks is not that they constitute proof either way, but that a person with a two-decade record of attacking Ross chose, on this allegation, to attack the accuser’s credibility instead.

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