Los Angeles- Young Buck held his ground Friday against charges he stabbed a man during last year’s Vibe Awards violence. https://www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=6965

The 23-year-old G-Unit rapper, whose legal name is David Darnell Brown, pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles to felony assault with a deadly weapon.

He is the second person to be arraigned this week in connection with the Vibe brawl. Last Monday, Jimmy James Johnson, the man who allegedly touched off the fracas, pleaded innocent to assaulting superstar hip-hop producer and Buck mentor Dr. Dre. It was after Johnson apparently sucker-punched Dre that police say Buck retaliated.

Police contend that on video seized from the Nov. 15 taping of the awards show Buck can clearly be seen lunging at Johnson with a knife.

Buck said nothing to reporters Friday except an exhortation to “go buy my album.”

His debut solo album, Straight Outta Ca$hville, hit theBillboard charts at number three last August.

He remains free on $500,000 bail.

The Nashville native has been using that freedom to record new material on his mobile studio and to spend some quality time in Los Angeles with his G-Unit compadre 50 Cent.

Buck joined Fiddy late Thursday night at Los Angeles hotspot Concorde for an X-rated video shoot of 50 Cent’s hit single “Disco Inferno” (currently number eight on Billboard’s Hot 100) from the rap superstar’s forthcoming St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

The salacious “Disco Inferno” video features several porn stars and will most likely turn up on a DVD package around the time Massacre drops in March.

Buck is due back in court Feb. 18 for a preliminary hearing during which the judge will determine whether there is enough evidence for the case to proceed to trial. If convicted, the rapper faces a maximum eight-year prison sentence.