Memphis Bleek has hit back at Dame Dash after the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder claimed that JAY-Z was responsible for writing his raps.

Speaking to The Art of Dialogue, Dash criticized Bleek’s work ethic and alleged that Hov had to step up and pen some tracks for him.

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“I don’t think Bleek wanted to take over [Roc-A-Fella]. I don’t think he had the ability to,” he said. “Jay was writing a lot of his rhymes. So if Jay retired, that meant he was out of business as well.”

He added: “Ask Bleek about it. I can understand Bleek’s loyalty to Jay because he had Jay as a ghostwriter.”

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The Harlem-bred mogul later said: “I probably shouldn’t have said that but he’s been talking about me lately. I didn’t think it was a secret. I thought everybody knew.”

Turning his attention to Bleek’s work ethic, Dame claimed: “I’ve always had to push Bleek to put an album out. I personally think I wanted more for Bleek than Bleek wanted for himself.

“I would argue with him about, ‘Do your own show. Stop depending on this dude to do everything for you. You gotta do it on your own.'”

Bleek caught wind of Dash’s comments and fired back on X (formerly Twitter), writing: “He wilding right now bro [crying face emojis].”

Addressing his former label boss’ ghostwriting claim, the Brooklyn rapper said: “I wish maybe I [would] still be lit [fire emoji].”

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He added: “And people said I was whack [thinking face emoji] so if Jay wrote for me he whack [too] [crying face emojis].”

Bleek also promised to address the topic in more detail on his upcoming podcast, saying: “These type of conversations Dame sparking is the reason #RocSolidPod gotta Drop!! 2025 we talking bout all this shit [crying face emojis].”

JAY-Z himself has yet to comment on the claims.

Dame Dash has spoken at length about his relationship with Memphis Bleek, previously claiming that he helped “save” his former signee after he was locked into a bad contract.

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“People close to [Bleek] were taking his publishing,” he said on his America Nu Network. “When he was signing his record deal someone had his — he was signed to a production deal. And I’m not going to say nobody’s name. I’ll let them deal with that. He talks about it. All his publishing was getting taken.”

He continued: “They were getting a piece of his royalty. He was getting robbed. So, I went and got him a lawyer. I went and got him a real accountant and it really caused a lot of friction internally. He was from Brooklyn and Brooklyn n-ggas was robbing him and I saved him from that. Yeah, I saved him from that and he acknowledges it.