Rick Ross is speaking out after the rapper was arrested for domestic abuse charges. 

The seasoned artist was booked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday morning, October 1, for misdemeanor domestic battery and battery by strangulation in connection with an incident that happened in Miami Beach last month. According to WSVN, Ross appeared in front of Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mindy S. Glazer, where he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Ross spoke to reporters outside of the jail after he posted his bond. 

“I’m totally innocent of these fabricated allegations made against me,” he said. “I repeat, I’m totally innocent of these fabricated allegations made against me.”