Dame Dash threw shade today (March 23) at Complex Magazine and fashion designer/entrepreneur Marc Ecko, the founder/CEO of Marc Ecko Enterprises.
On Instagram, Dash calls Ecko “the fashion version of Lyor Cohen,” claiming that Ecko’s business model is to “make money off of urban people.” He also deplored Ecko’s fashion designs that became “corny fast” and bewaring that Ecko “thinks he’s gonna do it again with content.”
In full disclosure, DX is a member of the Complex Network. HipHopDX is owned by Cheri Media and is part of the Complex Ad Network, which helps facilitate HipHopDX securing ads on the site.
Complex funds artists to premiere music videos on ComplexTV. Two such artists are Run The Jewels and The Dipset. These acts premiere their videos on Complex and air them through the network exclusively for six months.
The DD172 art gallery founder/former Rocafella Records CEO’s social media commentary today also targets Vlad TV founder/curator DJ Vlad. Dash questioned whether artists are being compensated for their content on VladTV.
“How come they get paid and the artists don’t?” Dash said, citing Vlad’s alleged response to his question. “He said he was doing us a favor promoting our stuff while they got paid…Please don’t try to play the millenial generation.”
Dash then resumed his comments against Ecko: “I’m gonna at least give my culture the information so they don’t get robbed early and he doesn’t own Complex. A hedge fund does. He’s a nerd with a hedge fund who’s business model is ‘rob our culture’ #culturevulture.”
Dash has appeared on Vlad TV in the past and several other online publications discussing his “culture vulture” accusations against former Def Jam President Joie Manda and 300 Entertainment founder/CEO Lyor Cohen.
Dash himself has also been attacked by Power 105’s Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne The God Diplomats rapper Jim Jones, and Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex in response to the effect of Dash’s “culture vulture” accusations.
Dash’s tweets and Instagram posts regarding Ecko are as follows:
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How is Dame gonna comment on Ecko, and say it got corny fast (which it was, and did) but disregard the fact that RocaWear was corny as fuck.
Cant say rocawear was corny as fuck it had a nice run from 02-03 til at least 2009…. Ecko has behind g unit who came and went. Most artist make only 10% or less on there own clothing’s lines (traditional deals)
nobody wore Rocawear past 2003. You mean to tell me people other than Jay-Z were rockin ROCAWEAR in 08-09? FOH
FOR A “BUSINESS” MAN DAME DASH CAN’T EVEN SPELL THE WORD “BUSINESS” SO RIGHT THERE HE DISQUALIFIES HIMSELF AND HAS ZERO CREDITABILITY WITH ANYTHING HE SAYS.
So says the guy writing in ALL CAPS . Yes we really are going to give credence to your RANT.Caps off
It’s credibility genious…
You guys must be teenagers if you are saying rocawear didn’t have a long run. Jay z would not be able to sell rocawear for over 200 milin 2007 if rocawear was not popular.
dx is no different
my drug dealer still wears ecko
Is Ecko pushing that SLOWBUCKS clothing brand now? Can’t be making much from that, seems like the only people who ever wear it get it for free. Epic records had to drop them real quick. Fuck Slowbucks!
I think dame is taking the kanye route
An I bet money he reads these blogs n sees these comments regularly. . He has a lil more time on his hands these days
dame dash is that old guy that just hates on everything. i bet you anything thanksgiving dinners with the family consists of reminising of days him and jayz came up. same 5 stories every holiday
I don’t know what Dame considers as his, but it sure ain’t hip-hop.
preach .. culture vultures are here .. expose then remove by boycott .. all they want is the money
Vlad is a true vulture,hiphopdx and allhiphop are looking sus too. Always running pieces from the same interviews each day for click bait. When was the last positive piece from dude? Does he even dj?!!!
dame is just doing what every harlem nigga does…talk talk talk and when push comes to shove they fuck their own shit up…dame doesn’t have it like that if he did he would not be doing lame interviews tryna make himself look better…HARLEM
Damon Dash always talks about culture vultures, but as Jim Jones stated so is he. If you have art galleries in other countries, are you not robbing from their culture and using it for personal gain? Isn’t his new business partner Kanye a culture vulture? Kanye has a louis vuitton deal for shoes. So Kanye was working with the French and putting his shoes out through them. Was Kanye not robbing from another culture? I think many people simply work with other cultures and go where the money is. That’s just a part of business.
Is Damon going to tell someone that is not from his culture to NOT buy his movie Loisaidas???? Lol. Hell no! He is bitter as hell. These people are not going to respond to Damon, because they never do. He is wasting his time.
Dame is copletely right, but only a few people will have the cerebral power to understand what he is trying to do. There have loooooog been culture vultures who are millionaires because of the theft from our community and never give back to the community…BET is now owned by white people who make money off of us..SOME black people are dumb as shit, they’d rather knock Mr. Dash for speaking against MASSA, because they suffer from post traumatic slave syndrome. WAKE UP!
man shut the fuck up. you one of them niggas that cry if a white person dont hire you and then complain that he thinks hes your master when he does
I wonder if the bankrupt Dame still throws away his shirts after wearing them once.
that tweet isnt real, smh cmon hhdx
Dame then went on to bash eminem, miley cyrus, taylor swift and colonel sanders