Thanks to a radio interview lasting well over an hour, former Roc-A-Fella Records co-owner, Dame Dash was able to speak on a variety of topics. During his conversation with Sway Calloway of Sway’s Universe, Dame spoke on Kanye West’s departure from Roc-A-Fella Records, his current relationship with Jim Jones, and his inability to work with Jay Z due to the rapper’s alleged ties with informants.
Dame first spoke on Kanye after being asked about presenting the rapper with the Visionary Award at this year’s BET Honors. From there, he revealed that he dropped Kanye from Roc-A-Fella Records because of disagreements with “the way he was moving.”
The Hip Hop entrepreneur later revealed that he hasn’t reached out to ‘Ye in recent years because there’s nothing the rapper could do for him since they’re both on separate business paths.
“Nobody walked away from me,” Dame Dash said. “Why do y’all think that…I don’t think y’all really understood the truth about that whole situation. At the time Kanye—I had dropped Kanye, to be honest. And it was because of us not agreeing with the way he was moving. And that’s water under the bridge. But then I gave him the opportunity like—‘Yo, as a man I signed you, so I’mma give you the opportunity. I’m not gonna walk away while you signed to Roc-A-Fella. You want me to keep running your shit, I will.’ But I had already argued with him. I had already got at him, like the old Dame Dash. And again, it’s not really relevant at this point, but we had already kind of established we wasn’t moving. Like niggas was begging me like ‘Don’t drop him.’ I’m like ‘I’m not doing that.’ And he chose to make the right decision that he felt was right for himself. That was it. For the last five, six years, it’s been nothing Kanye could do for me. Nothing.”
In regards to Jay Z, Dame revealed that the former business associates have had two “moments” together recently, both of which were documented via photographs that quickly went viral.
When it concerns a possible collaboration between the two men in the future, Dame says that after hearing about Jay Z possibly being affiliated with informants and “in business with certain people,” he’s now a little leery of being linked with the rapper-turned-businessman.
“Those moments – there were two. One was Chaka’s birthday,” he said. “And they were real adamant about me coming to her birthday, because I love Chaka like a little sister. And I was gonna come through. I don’t have a beef with Jay. I never did. We just approach business different. And the other time was with my daughter. We’re gentlemen. We’re men. We’ve done a lot. Just because you don’t agree with a man, because you’re black don’t mean you gotta fight, argue. You just have a different perspective. And at this very moment just based on what I read in the paper. This is the one time that the paper did scare me, and I was like ‘There has to be some truth to it.’ Is when I read about his affiliation with informants. That he’s in business with certain people. And it’s tricky for me to say, but just based on where I’m from, I can’t have nothing to do with that…I love Jay, but let’s say I find out any of that shit [is true], I can’t fuck with him at all. Because that’s how I was raised. It ain’t no disrespect. I don’t know how anyone else was raised. That’s it. It ain’t nothing to talk about. And it’s real serious for me.”
Following his recent, social media-heavy feud with Jim Jones, Jones referred to Dame as a “culture vulture” in an Instagram post last August, Dame attributed the Dipset lyricist’s lashing out to him being “a creative.” He also revealed that he’ll always have love for Jones and those close to him.
“Jim is a creative that sometimes reacts in the moment,” Dame said. “That’s what makes him creative. I’m not the kind of guy that looks at one thing that a person does and only concentrates on what that is as opposed to everything. So, I have to look at all the things that I’ve done with Jim and the things he’s done, and it outweighs those two emotional moments. But those emotional moments don’t reflect the way that I live and the way I react to things. And that can sometimes be detrimental to the big picture. He’s the kind of brother that I’ll always love…I appreciate him as a friend…It wasn’t over anything that was substantial to me.”
Dame Dash’s interview on Sway’s Universe can be found below.
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It’s undeniable what this man built with his fellows under the Roc-A-Fella umbrella, too bad nowadays he’s 90% talk and 10% content. I wish him the best to him both in business and personal life, but his bragging about past achievements and attention seeking stories about the golden days are getting tiresome. The contrast is especially strange if you see what kind of news have been published about him in the past 3 years in the non-hip-hop media: it’s all about failures after failures. So again, respect to Dame but he should really get his shit together again.
I wonder how his motor oil company is working out LOL
I have to say that you hit it right on the head there. An additional thing I wanted to add. This attitude he has of “Well, I did this, you owe me” and bragging pretty much how he dropped Kanye makes him sound like a difficult person to deal with at times. He just likes attracting drama and feels unfulfilled without it. Some people are like that. And him labeling his past actions as “the old Dame” is an excuse. He’s still the same person. He just doesn’t have the full support, control/leadership that he once had so he has to pretty much pretend he’s humbled when he isn’t.
@Anom, your so on point, Dame still living in the past and his present day claim to fame is talking about other men
I REALLY DONT THINK HOV WANNA WORK WITH YOU DAME….
Dame called a black lawyer a “culture vulture” for trying to get the back child support Damon owes his ex wife.
Dame thinks Hov gives a flying phuck what he thinks..Hov worth half a billi…while Dame cant even get a tuneup for his 02 Bentley…Hov Built the Roc..Hov and Kanye made Rocafella..Dame aint spit one bar, Dame aint lay down one track
I get the idea that this dude is all talk!
this guy is a clown. rocafella and def jam bought out the label and payed dame and biggs some money. everyone on the label got the chance to go with the roc or go with dame. bleek, kanye, peedi crakk and the young gunz stayed on rocafella and beans went with dame. for all the knowledge this man drop its get overshadowed by the bs drama.
This dude is always opening his mouth about other men, Dame- Rocafella dumped you about 10 years ago almost, let it go. it’s over. Done. Go sell some motor oil. Oh, by the way. Real business men are not gonna tag all of their products with their name. It’s just stupid. Dash Oil, Dash Films, Dash Socks….make a name that sounds like it has nothing to do with you and watch it take off.
Go head Dame. i understand he likes to boast. but he is indeed a hustler. respect. they all try to write him off but he’s still around. how?! hustle. while all yall little niggas writing paragraphs about him, go own your own shit!!