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Dame Dash is back! Returning to New York City a “warrantless” man but to deal with some “frivolous” cases in court, Dame stopped by The Breakfast Club to enlighten the morning trio on how he’s been prophetic as to the moves he’s made and where he’s at today.
Accompanied by his artist Tash, Dame talks about the ups and downs he’s been going through for the past few months whenever he’s not taking shots at the Popeyes eating attorney, Chris Brown (LOL).
Touching on everything from Harvey Weinstein to almost signing The Firm to Roc-A-Fella, Dame once again proves that he’s one of the most entertaining and insightful interviews in the music game.
Here are the 11 things we learned from Dame Dash on The Breakfast Club.
Dame is actually the front man of his own rock band. “I’m the chairman of the board in the day. I’m a rock star at night like Batman.” Who knew the Hip-Hop mogul would venture into the Rock-N-Roll genre one day?
While Dame’s DTV streaming service is mostly on online app, he says its got its own 24-hour channel in Charlotte. “I was just doing that to showcase the fact that I can do 24 hours of television program.”
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Dame reveals that he and his wifey, Rocky, recently suffered a miscarriage. After going through IVF to help them get pregnant, they lost the baby at seven months. That day Dame made a record “Warrior” to express the pain he was going through. Prayers up for Dame and his family.
While most people feel Dame comes off as an angry individual, Dame says he’s actually “not an unhappy person despite what people think. I don’t internalize everything. Therapy is about getting dark before you get light. Now, you f*ck with me I get dark very quick, people know that. Then I laugh as soon as I walk out the room because I haven’t held anything in.”
Touching on today’s political climate (somewhat), Dame says he gives Russia props because of how they’re playing America with this new age warfare. “They blasted a nuclear dumb bomb in our country and are laughing at us and I’m not mad at that… that’s an intelligent kind of warfare.” A nuclear dumb bomb indeed. He does say “I hope they don’t do it again.” Unfortunately they’re definitely going to before the 2020 election.
Though some might get offended at how Dame characterizes his advice on things about how to be a boss, he says he’s “disruptive” on purpose because rubbing people the wrong way is how you get their attention. “If I say it in a way that everyone else is saying it, no one’s gonna hear me. So that’s the reason I speak the way I do.” Sounds about right.
Talking about his old beef with Lyor Cohen (“He’s scared of me”) and Steve Stoute, Dash says he actually spoke to Steve about their old drama and Steve told him, “’You know all those times you were yelling at me about Jay? Jay was setting up those meetings.’ He just threw Jay under the bus quick.” That being said, Dame says he does forgive everyone for their transgressions but he doesn’t trust and doesn’t want to be around them anymore. “I just don’t wanna smell your breath.” Fair enough.
Interestingly enough, Dame says while he did used to press Harvey Weinstein about his funny business with women, they used to “own” a club together called Social Visa “but I never seen him put up his bread… He used to do slick sh*t in the [kitchen] and I’d be like ‘What you doin’?!’” That being said, he does admit that he’s even scared to “shoot my shot” with women these days because he doesn’t want to get hit with anymore lawsuits. He does appreciate that men are finally getting checked for their behavior though.
Dash confirms that he is suing the people behind Growing Up Hip-Hop because he asked them not to “have certain individuals in the scene with my son because they are triggers” to his own issues with drinking. They did so anyway and “he hasn’t been the same since.” He feels that the producers aren’t people from the culture who are “making money off people’s dysfunctions from our culture” and he’s taking them to court for that and for failure to pay him some money they owe.
Taking it back to the glory days of Roc-A-Fella Records, Dame reveals that had Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” not started doing numbers he was ready to get in the booth to start rapping himself. Word?! He also regrets doing what he did in the video to make it “pop” for TRL at the time. “I’m not proud of that.” Grown man ish, y’all.
Though Roc-A-Fella had a very public beef with Nas during the early 00’s, Dame says he was intent on signing The Firm (Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown & Nature) to the Roc. “I was trying to sign everybody.” When it came time to sign DJ Clue and turn a mixtape into an actual album he shared that idea with Steve Stoute who went behind his back and tried to sign Clue himself but Dame walked in on the deal and deaded everything.
