Ray Rice & Teyana Taylor 'Hook-Up' Sparks Violent Janay Palmer Assault [VIDEO]? Laughs-Off Text Cheating Scandal, 'Don't Drag Me Into That' [WATCH]

Baltimore Ravens superstar Ray Rice was recently suspended from the NFL after this shocking assault video involving future wife Janay Palmer went viral on the web earlier this week:

Several Twitter fans were disturbingly appalled with Rice's behavior - under no circumstances should a male attack a female so viciously.

Even if Palmer initiated the physical altercation after discovering that Rice was "creeping around" with aspiring hip-hop songstress, Teyana Taylor.

Rumors initially suggested that Rice was text-messaging the 23-year-old beauty behind his fiancee's back. According to "Love & Hip-Hop New York" star Joe Budden (via Twitter and Hip Hollywood):

"It may be hearsay, but if the beef between Ray Rice and his wife was over the woman that some are saying?!?! Then sh*t... smh. If ya'll know who I'm referring to, then that sh*t is crazy to me,"

Apparently, he later confessed that he was talking about Taylor.

But the former "My Super Sweet Sixteen" starlet is NOT amused with such shady gossip. She was never involved with the popular athlete. She's currently involved in a romantic relationship, and she's sick of all the crazy drama involving her name.

In a recent interview with Philly's Power 99, Taylor thoroughly explains:

No one received a text from me. I had nothing to do with that. These were also the same blogs that said that I accused Colin Kaepernik of raping me and when the actual girl came out and said who she was, there was no apology to Teyana. Nobody cleaned it up. So now I'm at a point where all I can do is laugh at it. People feel like they know your life and it's so sad, because it's our people. This is a big matter. ESPN hasn't said my name. No sports blogs have said my name BUT a whole bunch of OUR people. Our people who want it to be true so bad but I can't entertain those type of things.

What I won't downplay is me and Ray. We used to stay in the same building. He dated my best friend. I was on the phone with her and she was laughing like, 'don't even feed into that.' I never touched that man. That's my homie. I don't condone what he did, and I don't condone what his wife did. They need to work that out and figure it out, however, she shouldn't have hit him and he shouldn't hit her. I feel like there is a double standard because sometimes we don't realize that a man is still a man but Ray shouldn't have put his hands on her and she shouldn't have put her hands on him.

I'm in a full blown relationship [with Iman] so don't drag me into that. I never touched that man. What y'all not going to say is that I was the reason why that happened in that elevator.

(Via Necole Bit*hie)

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Meanwhile, Rice claims that alcohol instigated the elevator fight. Still, not right.