Young Guru Refutes Dame Dash’s Claim JAY-Z Stole Music From Other Artists

Young Guru isn’t buying Dame Dash’s claim that JAY-Z repeatedly stole music from other artists including Ja Rule and Omillio Sparks.

In an interview on The Guads Show, the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder made a number of allegations about his former friend and business partner.

“Jay had a pattern of jacking n-ggas records,” Dame said while discussing Cam’ron’s decision to delete Hov’s verse from “Oh Boy.” “Jay has a [track] record of getting on a record after it gets hot and now he can perform that record and now it sounds like he made that record — that was his model … That’s fucked up to the person that [made the song].

“Ja Rule’s record ‘Can I Get A…,’ that was Ja Rule’s record. ‘I’m a hustler, baby!‘ [‘I Just Wanna Love U’], that was [Omillio] Sparks’ record. That’s the only reason why Sparks is on there, ’cause it was his record. So he does this thing where he says it’s your record, I’ll jump on and now it’s my record. It’s almost extortion.”

Young Guru, JAY-Z’s longtime engineer, took to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday (December 20) deny the claims.

“CAP on this narrative that jay STEALS songs,” he wrote. “1. Jay got ‘I just want to love you’ directly from Pharrell and made the song from scratch. Sparks says a Rick James hook.

“2. ‘Can I get’ was Irv’s idea, literally said ‘Jay get on this record but please keep JA.’ I love you OG but nah.”

In a follow-up post, Guru also addressed the notion that Hov stole Joe Budden’s “Pump It Up,” which he spit a freestyle over on his 2003 mixtape The S. Carter Collection and took shots at Budden on. (Jay initially passed on the beat before reportedly quoting Budden $250,000 to appear on the official remix, a fee the young rapper felt was too high.)

“And while we are here ‘Pump it Up’ was for a mixtape. That is what a mixtape was at the time. Rap over the hottest beats out. Everyone did that for mixtapes,” he pointed out.

Budden himself responded to Guru’s comments, writing: “lol Guru had enough [crying face emoji].”

In recent times, Dame Dash has suggested that he’s open to squashing his long-running feud with JAY-Z, but also said the billionaire rapper had “distasteful” people around him.

“There’s things — and I don’t want to get into it — that morally I can’t be a part of,” Dash explained on The CEO Show. “But if [JAY] could just shed all the things that I don’t like morally, and all the people who have done things and are doing things that morally I can’t fuck with, [then] we could fuck with just family.”

Dame also recently said that Nas emerged victorious in his high-profile beef with JAY-Z.

“Jay’s [‘Supa Ugly’] response was terrible,” he claimed on the That’s F***ed Up Podcast. “The thing is, we had first hit him with the joint at Summer Jam that was kinda hard, the ‘Takeover.’ But when [Nas] came with the ‘Ether,’ I was kinda hype because he said my name. I was like, ‘I guess I’m in a rap record.’

“But the response, I wasn’t there for the response. I had landed, Irv Gotti fucked that one up. Every time Irv Gotti got in my business, he fucked shit up … He threw that ‘Ether’ on him. He had him apologizing. The rap that he did was wack — when I heard it, I was pissed.”