Jay-Z has been named in a scathing new lawsuit, in which he's being accused of raping a minor alongside embattled rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Here’s a timeline of Carter and Combs’s friendship over the decades.

Z have denied the lawsuit's allegations. In a then-burgeoning hip-hop scene, the fellow New York natives rose to prominence in the East Coast rap world through the mid-1990s. Their music tapped into hard knocks and entrepreneurial ambitions – but both wanted more than album sales and positive reviews.

Rap mogul P Diddy lifted the lid on what is so special about Beyonce and Jay-Z's relationship, in an unearthed interview over a decade before the two male rappers were linked by a rape allegation. Jay Z,

Jay-Z's legal team says a woman told them attorney Tony Buzbee pressed her to include Sean "Diddy" Combs in her allegations. Buzbee denied the claim.

Jay-Z is facing 'heinous' rape allegations from a 13-year-old girl and has been forced to make a decision on how to proceed with wife Beyoncé and their daughter Blue Ivy