{"id":6621,"date":"2026-03-14T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/03\/14\/rapper-knaan-says-alleged-assault-never-happened-during-court-testimony\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:43:04","slug":"rapper-knaan-says-alleged-assault-never-happened-during-court-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/03\/14\/rapper-knaan-says-alleged-assault-never-happened-during-court-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper K&#8217;naan Says Alleged Assault &#8220;Never Happened&#8221; During Court Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/knaan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>K\u2019naan denies sexually assaulting a woman in 2010, telling the Quebec court the alleged incident \u201cnever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.aigeon.ai\/api\/signup\/form\/sw_3MiYKLndhel9vIXU\" class=\"signup-embed allhiphop-signup-embed\" data-test-id=\"signup-embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 240px; margin: 0; border-radius: 8px; background-color: transparent; box-shadow: 0 0 #0000; max-width: 100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/aside><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/k-naan\/\">K\u2019naan<\/a> took the stand last week in Quebec City and flatly denied he ever sexually assaulted the woman, accusing him of raping her in a hotel room back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy-winning rapper\u2019s testimony marked the turning point in a trial that\u2019s been laying bare the competing narratives of what went down that July night at the Hilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat never happened. There was not a single ambiguous moment about consent with her. It never happened,\u201d he said from the witness box.<\/p>\n<p>The woman testified earlier this week that the evening started like a fairy tale. He was charming, held her hand, and brought her backstage to his Festival d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 de Qu\u00e9bec performance.<\/p>\n<p>But everything shifted when she asked about protection. She said he got \u201cenormously angry.\u201d He said the mood just got heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Both agree they fell asleep after that conversation. Both agree they had sex the next morning. That\u2019s where the story splits in half.<\/p>\n<p>She says she woke in the middle of the night to find him inside her without permission. He says that\u2019s a lie. He says she initiated the morning sex, and that was it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><d class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><br \/>\n<d class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canadian rapper K&#039;naan behind hit song &#039;Wavin&#039; Flag&#039; charged with sexual assault\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hB82D2J3Kg0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/d><br \/>\n<\/d><\/figure>\n<p>When she sent him a YouTube video about sexual consent in 2015, years after they\u2019d stopped talking, he dismissed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it was absurd. I don\u2019t see a consent issue at all to talk about,\u201d he told the court. \u201cShe initiated the sex and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman filed a police complaint in May 2022, more than a decade after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d stayed in touch over the years through emails and texts, with her eventually telling him: \u201cRight. Because you have absolutely no clue of what you did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/canadian-rapper-k-naan-says-235156787.html\">According to CBC News<\/a>, testimony wrapped this week with closing arguments scheduled for April 1.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, K\u2019naan faces up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old built his career on socially conscious Hip-Hop, earning international recognition for <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/grammy-winning-rapper-accused-of-transforming-from-charming-to-predatory-rapist\/\">his 2009 anthem \u201cWavin\u2019 Flag,\u201d<\/a> which became the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The judge will decide who\u2019s telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/rapper-knaan-says-alleged-assault-never-happened-during-court-testimony\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u2019naan denies sexually assaulting a woman in 2010, telling the Quebec court the alleged incident \u201cnever happened.\u201d K\u2019naan took the stand last week in Quebec City and flatly denied he ever sexually assaulted the woman, accusing him of raping her in a hotel room back in 2010. The Grammy-winning rapper\u2019s testimony marked the turning point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}