Dame Dash was a recent guest on Nick Cannon’s video series, Cannon’s Class, where the two Hip Hop vets tackled a bevy of topics, including Dash’s new Culture Vultures book. During their discussion, the Wild ‘N Out host brought up Dash’s former Roc-A-Fella partner JAY-Z and his close proximity to R. Kelly.
In 2002, Hov and Kelly put out the joint project Best Of Both Worlds right around the time Kelly’s controversial video of himself urinating on an underaged girl surfaced.
Dash, who was once romantically linked to the late Aaliyah, was adamant he muted Kelly nearly two decades ago and accused the R&B star of raping Aaliyah. He also insisted he was forced to turn a blind eye to Hov’s working relationship with Kelly in an effort to maintain his business.
“If you notice, my name’s not on Best Of Both Worlds,” he said. “I never went to a concert. Video, no. You don’t have no video with me. [Note: Dash later addressed his appearance in the ‘Fiesta’ video during the interview.] If me and you cool, and you know that I got a girl that your man raped, right? And I tell you and you like you’re gonna still work him, what you gonna feel? So what you think I felt? I’m human, bro.
“But I had to look the other way, all these years. That nigga done raped my girl that he liked as well and then went on a tour with him. But no one said nothing. I remember having a conversation with Aaliyah and I was like, ‘Yo, tell me what happened.’ She just couldn’t. I just left it at that and she said, ‘Leave it alone.'”
As the Kelly and JAY-Z talk began to wind down, Cannon threw Foxy Brown into the mix. Dash got noticeably agitated after Cannon asked how old Foxy was when she got signed to Def Jam Recordings. At the time, she’d already collaborated with Hov on 1996’s “Ain’t No Nigga.”
“I don’t fucking know,” Dash snapped. “I wasn’t paying attention to Foxy Brown. I didn’t sign Foxy Brown! Stop putting me in that! You keep acting like I’m on the block [like] I’m responsible for that … What I’m saying is, bro, I didn’t sign Foxy Brown. What do I got to do with Foxy Brown?
“Don’t beat around the bush. Say what you mean by that question. What are you insinuating when you ask me about Foxy Brown? You bringing up something, but it ain’t to me!”
After a bunch of back-and-forth, Cannon blurted out, “I thought Foxy was 16.”
“Did I sign her?” Dash asked. “It seems like you’ve got a question for Jay. Ask him. Don’t ask me his question, bro. I’m not taking it. Y’all keep asking me question y’all wanna ask him because he ain’t here. Ask him. I ain’t got shit to do with that, and I don’t even know nothing about that.”
Ultimately, Dash refused to “speak on another man’s business.”
Watch the full interview above.
Dame just gonna conveniently forget about when his “man” Cam’ron did the snake remix?
lol .. but check this out .. Nick cannon first major single feat R Kelly so yeah …. Nick ain’t safe from that either…lol
True and they do speak on that. It’s just funny that Dame only shits on Jay for it, but Cam is his man, I guess Harlem really does stick together
He didn’t forget. Cam is irrelevant and Dame only runs his mouth about relevant people to get some free promo around whatever lame product he’s trying to promote at the moment.
Super lame
Nick Cannon is NOT a hip hop vet.
Fuck R. Kelly’s raping ass! Never liked that pedophile bastard anyway! But the worst thing about all this is poor, dead Aaliyah being revived to draw media attention to the heinous act Kelly put her through.
Another thing that I hope all this draws attention to is how blacks like to look the other way when blacks are the culprit to molestation and harassment. We like to think that pedophelia, homosexuality, etc are the white man’s perversions but they’re not. A big reason why R. Kelly got away with it is that we hate to bring down famous blacks because we feel that it’s “sticking together”. Look at the number of black folks who still defend Cosby?! We need to start calling this stuff out and make sure rapists (men and women) don’t get away with it.
So just because aalyiah is dead we can’t talk about her anymore? Its stupid logic cause once a person is dead it doesn’t change what happened during their lives
Bitch what did he put her through? Aaliyah was fvckin alot of grown ass industry men, nobody forced her, her parents didn’t say shit coz she liked doing what she was doing stop talking shit.
That has shit to do with anything. Have you ever been to black churches? Have you ever been in black neighborhoods where everybody know the daddy is fucking the kids? This has nothing to do with but the same shit that happens with white people when this happens. People handle problems like this the wrong way. Has shit to do with anybody being famous and more has to do with what kind of mother or other family members those kids have. Even with this alleged R. Kelly shit, most of this shit is on the parents and not other people around them like everybody is trying to blame random communities and shit at large. It always bottom line comes down to how hard in the paint the parents would go in the paint for their kids if some shit happen to them. Often times, the predators know this and pick accordingly.
I brought this up last week. Aaliyah is dead. Why are you dragging her name through the mud? Jay-Z and Foxxy Brown are both alive, so if these people so outraged want to be outraged, why are they selective in their outrage? People are just funny to me sometimes.
Big difference between rumored relationship and a actual marriage
Wasn’t any rumored anything unless you want to be ignorant. Everybody knew about that shit just like everybody knew about the R. Kelly/Aaliyah shit. It’s what I said last week. If you want to bring up old shit involving somebody who isn’t here to speak for herself of whether or not she wants you to bring it up, why not bring up all of the old shit?
If they wanted to make a documentary on accusations over the years, that’s their business, but my problem was bringing up that dead woman and putting her in the middle of that shit when even Dame said she didn’t want to speak on it with him. That’s between him, her, and her family.
Why is King HOV the target regarding Foxy Brown? Did everyone forget about The Firm, that included that broke woman beater Nas? Was Nas fucking and beating up an underaged Foxy too? Why aren’t people bringing up Nas in the mix? Oh I see, because King HOV is the richest man in hip hop and haters always wanna bring him down in any way possible. Not happening, King HOV will forever remain the King. It’s the ROC!
Ain’t no fool like a blind fool. You take a man that dangles his wealth in the faces of the poor and you call him king. You take a man that endangers his relationship with his wife and kids and you call him king. You take a man that opportunistically speaks about things like race relations only now that it is popular to do so and you call him king. Do you not have any ability to see thru bs?
Gay-Z sold drugs to his own people. Some king that douche bag is. His music suck balls, and him and his wifey have become a tabloid joke.
Jay-Z was also using a teenage Lil Kim as his drug mule
Where’d you get that info from?
If Foxy has a problem with it she’ll say something… The hip hop #MeToo mafia needs to chill until we hear it from the source… peace.
She already did a couple of years ago stupid asshole
People not wanting to speak on another mans business is what got R Kelly to be a creep for 2 decades.
Facts.
What happen to that BET show Ladies Of Hip Hop that Foxy Brown suppose to been apart of ? Song of the day The Firm ( Firm Biz )
“I never stuck my c0ck in a Foxes box”
~hOv
Aaliyah sure did get some fame and a beginning from that R. Kelly shit. I never heard HER complain about dude, she never sued. I’m also pretty sure her estate isn’t donating all the money her career generated to #metoo etc. ironic, right? Her parents knew Kellz was fucking. They realized what the trade off was. No going back now. You can’t unstuck a cock. Specially for. The grave.
This is why the culture, execs, everybody stopped fucking with Dame. he talk to grown men like they are kids. FOH
Lmao y’all can talk all this shit but in the end R kells still gone be selling out shows and collecting cash. Dame broke and mad just like everybody else who in grown man business haha chatty patty ass grown men tho smh
R kells will still sell out shows??? Are u retarded?? R kelly doesn’t sell out shows you fool.. and you seem like the type to support his shows smh.
Yes he is retarded…and exactly the type of person that makes this type of shit possible, he’s more enamored with Kells’ cash and celebrity than him being a predator of little girls. All these scumbag fanboys stood by while this animal ran thru minor after minor, now everybody is “shocked and appaled”…just like Weinstein, everybody knew and nobody did shit cuz of the fame and money.
People about to start snitching on one another!!! Dame is a sucker for that…. dragging Jay-Z into this shit. Even Nick…. SMDH We about to start hearing some crazy stories from other artists as well. What happen in the dark will come to light…. now everything is coming to light.
Jay-Z has and will work with ANYONE if they’re hot at the moment, dude is a dick rider
You spelled Drake wrong
You must be young, Drake is just following Jay-Z blueprint, no pun intended
Another “underage” thing? GTFOH with this bullshit. While sending these guys to prison, let’s also make sure our hot-in-the-ass daughters don’t try to screw their way to the top.
What does dame say about doin the fiesta video though????
How long was Jay grooming Beyonce?
Jay paid off Foxy Brown to say nothin happened between them. So if she’s cool with it, we all should be. It’s her body, and if they got down, who cares? This is coming from a Jay-Z hater!