"While I respect Rihanna's right to discuss the specific events of February 8, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us. I do appreciate her support and wish her the best. I am extremely sorry for what I did, and I accept accountability for my actions. At this point, I am taking the proper steps to learn about me and grow from my mistakes."

"Chris Brown [wrote that statement] to Rihanna in which he said he believed his battery on her should remain a private issue. That's what batterers need, they need it to be shameful and keep it a secret," she said.

"If it's secret, they can deny it and minimize it and claim that it was merely a temporary slip on the straight and narrow path and what really counts is that they're a good person on the straight and narrow now," she added. Brown stated several times in the interview that he was getting help and that he would never do such a thing again, hoping that his speaking out would help others. But O'Neill said the language the 20-year-old singer used to describe the assault made her think that Brown has not fully faced up to his actions.

"If he can't deny it, then he can minimize it and talk about 'When it happened,' 'When the incident happened,' not 'When I committed the assault,' " she said. "It's a non-denial denial, which is classic behavior. He says he wants to teach others not to do this by simply saying, 'Don't do it?' That's not teaching others not to do it. Watching this makes me think his whole focus is on putting this behind him."

"How many people on that cypher do you think spit off the top of their head?" Minaj fumed to Richmond, Virginia, radio host TT Torrez last week. "I don't write off the top of my head. I can't come up with those punch lines and metaphors off the top of my head. Everybody besides KRS-One, who else can you name that spit off the top of their head? They will tear apart a female, like, 'She did a good verse, but she wrote it.' ... The only thing that matters is that I wrote on a paper and memorized it. Wayne never wrote my sh--. No one ever wrote my stuff."

Chicago songwriter and performer Rickey Allen says it’s his song, and a judge has given the green light for a jury to hear his claims against Mrs. Jay-Z.

Allen first copyrighted his “Cater 2 U,” — with the same spelling — in the mid-1990s. He performed the song locally and updated the copyright three times, as recently as 2000.

Allen’s song is about “relieving the stress of a significant other, and getting them to relax.” He says Destiny Child’s version contains similar steamy lyrics.

“Do we say [Beyonce's] responsible for copying? Yes. But there’s no such thing as innocent copying, even if it’s unintentional,” said Allen’s lawyer, Matt Wildermuth. “The jury will decide the notion that these are simple coincidences.”

Allen says he passed a copy of his “Cater 2 U” to Chicago remixer Maurice Joshua, and the two planned to collaborate on a demo.