![]() They had The Diplomats, they had State Property, they had Brooklyn shit. Damon is the owner of Damon Dash Gallery, a division of DD172, located at 172 Duane St. Under the brand name Dame Dash, they sold motor oil. “Remember, Roc-A-Fella had so many different types of music. Dame Dash teamed up with an oil plant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2011. “The confusion at the Roc-A-Fella breakup did a lot of damage for New York music,” he said. 5H show in March, Jones argued that the feud did damage to the state of New York hip-hop as a whole. It's not the first time Jones has discussed the infamous breakup. That shit was just some simple shit that could have been avoided, you know what I mean?” And this is something that, looking back, I think could have been avoided. I was never silent as a Roc-A-Fella artist, but I had to roll with what Cam was doing. He continued: “Their controversy and their separation led to a lot of the artists taking sides, which was kind of fucked up. We’re going to make Cocoon: Paid In Full? It’ll be what? Paid in Full: Nursing Home? They’re too old to play young characters.Damon Dash and Jay-Z during Damon Dash's Birthday Party - at La Bodega in New York City, New York, United States. It seems the original cast won’t be returning for the sequel. “They’re too old,” Dame said. Back in those days, Brooklyn dudes didn’t wear Nike Airs so that was a flag for me,” he said of recognizing Hov’s potential.ĭash also discussed Paid in Full 2, which he has been teasing for some time, confirming it’s filming in Newark, New Jersey. We did exactly what we said we were gonna do-what I knew we were gonna do.”ĭame said he took notice of Jay-Z because he was wearing Nike Airs. Of course we’re gonna fucking destroy this shit, which we did. But we knew once we got there, yeah, we’re hustlers. It was like, we’re not here for a million dollars-we’re here because we like having fun. He continued, “That’s why when Lyor offered us a million dollars, we laughed at him. We were really good drug dealers, so we were famous in the street already-so it was normal.” Think about this back in those days: the rappers were emulating the drug dealers. He’s the only one that listened completely, and still does on a certain level.”ĭame also talked around 34:10 minute mark about coming up with Hov and how the pair blew up. But the reason why it was him is because he had the most respect for me. I expected someone to do those things but I didn’t know it would be him. I expected other people that were in my crew to be Kanye. ![]() “I’m not surprised, nothing surprises me. I never expected that in a billion years,” Dame said around 40:15. My rule of thumb is: I’m not hurting anybody with the same color skin as me, period.”Įlsewhere, Dame discussed how he first met Kanye West and whether he thought the Chicago native would become as successful as he is. And we’re aware of it, but we keep doing it. He added, “Family killing family instead of your real enemy is your real enemy tricking you to do that. … What needs to be profitable is our love and our unity, and that’s what has to be showcased. It’s just the program that we keep falling into. “Instead of people paying attention to a negative algorithm, they should pay attention to a positive one. “YouTube should stop paying when people put up beef,” he argued. … It’s a program, it’s knowing how to trigger people and it’s profitable our dysfunction.” The algorithms are what’s controlling us right now. “If you like to look at trolling and beef and it pops up on your phone. “It’s an algorithm that needs to be stopped,” he said around 51:30. He went his way, I went mine.”ĭuring the conversation, Dame also spoke on deadly feuds between rappers, blaming the algorithms behind social media and streaming platforms as contributing factors. ![]() I don’t like the way he carried things but that’s on him. I’m not beefin’ with that man-I don’t care what he’s doing. He continued, “You know, again, the program is when two Black people used to work together and now they don’t, then they gotta be beefin’. I would never sue somebody I used to hustle with-I’m not into suing anybody. “He sued me for something he said that I did that I didn’t, and then I just had to sue him because he was redirecting funds for Reasonable Doubt,” Dame said around the 44:35 mark above. Damon Dash and Jay-Z have been at odds with each other for some time, with their latest bout having to do with Dame’s attempt at selling Hov’s Reasonable Doubt album as an NFT.ĭame commented on the matter in a new interview with Shannon Sharpe for Club Shay Shay.
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