During the first instalment of his “Tidal X: Jaÿ-Z B-Sides” concert at Terminal 5 in New York City last Saturday (May 16), Jay Z threw a few jabs at Spotify and YouTube in a new freestyle to the crowd.
The freestyle raised a few eyebrows and caught the attention of Dr. Boyce Watkins, who subsequently spoke with Damon Dash to get his thoughts on Jay’s lyrical shots.
“I was really happy that the disses are now towards the corporate infrastructure, the machine,” Damon Dash says. “[With] my experience with [Jay Z], whatever is winning is what he’s gonna embrace. So if bringing awareness to being robbed as a culture is what’s now in style, hopefully — that’s what I wanted to happen. Remember, I came on like, ‘It’s CEO beef. We don’t need to be fighting each other.’ If the most commercial person that I know — if the person that is going with what the masses are gonna go with, is saying that — then that means that’s where the whole tide is going. Of course the timing of it may make it look like he’s doing it as a marketing plan but good, everything that he does is a marketing plan.”
Later in the conversation, Dash clarified the meaning behind his “culture vulture” statements, saying that it has nothing to do with race and is instead intended for those who don’t share the same love and awareness for the culture.
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“When I say ‘culture vulture’ I never mean color, I always mean mentality,” Dash says. “I work with like-minded people with the same fight. The fight is for awareness [and] for love. People that fight for the bigger picture and not [for] themselves. We’re like superheroes. It’s not about me, I could be rich anytime that’s easy. I fight for everybody that I want to be rich, which is everybody. I see that if everyone is rich, then there will be no more violence.”
Damon Dash’s interview with Dr. Boyce Watkins can be viewed below:
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