Dame Dash Accuses Lyor Cohen Of Taking Advantage Of Young Thug While He's In Jail

Dame Dash has once again taken shots at longtime antagonist Lyor Cohen, this time over Young Thug.

During a recent sitdown with Math Hoffa for Dame’s America Nu Network, the Roc-A-Fella co-founder was asked whether the music industry “encourages toxic behavior.”

In answering, Dash brought up Young Thug, who is currently in jail while on trial for racketeering charges and whose songs were cited in his indictment.

Thug is on the roster of 300 Entertainment, a company co-founded by Cohen, a music industry veteran who, among many other positions, used to run Def Jam Records. Cohen left 300 in 2016.

“[The music industry] only exists because of toxic behavior,” Dash began. “They take advantage of the dysfunction of our culture.

“For me, if I see a kid that’s making music about shit that’s gonna get him killed because he’s really doing it, I don’t think I’m putting they records out. I’m not gonna enable that child.”

This led Dash to talking about Thug, who was arrested back in May 2022 and whose trial is ongoing.

“When I look at Young Thug, I’m like, Lyor and them just made a big check and he’s going to jail. They made money off his music.

“So if they made money off that music and he’s in jail for that, then all that money they made off the music should not go to them. How do they get to get all that money and he has to get a jail cell?”

You can see Dame’s comments beginning at the 19:28 mark below.

This is far from the first time that Dame Dash has had public issues with Lyor Cohen.

A decade ago, Dash said on VladTV that Cohen was “a fake CEO” and a “culture vulture” before stating that the veteran executive is raping the culture and was responsible for ruining Roc-A-Fella Records.

“My beef was with Lyor cause I think he’s a fake CEO,” the Harlem-bred mogul said. “And I think he’s fronting on my culture, but he can’t front on anybody else. And I’m calling him out publicly. And I want him to stop trying to rape my culture. Go make some money with some other people. Like, stop having your agenda be Hip Hop.”

Four years later, Dash re-upped the “culture vulture” accusation on The Joe Budden Podcast.

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In a nearly six-minute segment, Dash slammed Cohen: “A culture vulture is someone that exploits the culture that he’s not a part of, doesn’t benefit the culture and takes care of his culture, and has no respect for the culture he’s exploiting.”

He added: “And that’s why Lyor is one because he’s been making money off of our culture: he is not part of it, he’s been exploiting it. Never helping, teaching or anything, doing what’s in the best interest of his own pocket over the culture.

“And to add insult to injury, he is not accepted in his own culture. He cannot get no money in his own culture so he comes to ours, acts like a big cat, pretends we need him when we don’t.”