Dame Dash, co-founder of the Roc-A-Fella Records,who has had a history of legal battles with Jay-Z says he intended to sell his share of the record company that he co-founded with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke in 1996, and was hoping to get a reasonable offer for it.
“I was offered a certain amount of money for my interest in Roc-A-Fella Inc., which owns ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ They offered me like $1.5 million — Jay-Z. And I was like, ‘That’s some disrespectful sh-t. So, I guess I gotta sell it someplace else.’”
-Dame Dash
Dame Dash’s stake in the Roc-A-Fella Records company also included a share in Jay-Z’s debut album “Reasonable Doubt,” which he tried to sell as an NFT (non-fungible token)—a move that led to Jay-z suing the co-founder. Dame Dash countered this by suing Jay-z over the streaming rights to the album.
Now Dame claims Jay-Z made him a “disrespectful’ low-ball offer.
This is not the first time Dame Dash has publicly spoken out against Jay-Z for what he believes is unfair disrespectful treatment of him on part of Jay-Z. In August 2022, he had claimed that Jay-Z had often betrayed him financially when it came to their music business.
In a recent claim Dame Dash told VEUIT TV, “I was offered a certain amount of money for my interest in Roc-A-Fella Inc., which owns ‘Reasonable Doubt,’” he said, according to the outlet. “They offered me like $1.5 million — Jay-Z. And I was like, ‘That’s some disrespectful sh-t. So, I guess I gotta sell it someplace else.’”
“I got the lawsuit, ’cause again, I got accused of doing something I didn’t to stop me from doing it, and then everybody just went missing,” he continued during the interview. “So I had to deal with the lawsuit on my own.”
Dame Dash has spoken about betrayal from Jay-Z in the past as well. In an interview to “The Art of Dialogue,” he said, “Yeah, all that, but we were friends. Like, how would you feel if your brother just betrayed you for money?”
“That’s the algorithm. It wasn’t surprising, ’cause that’s what always happens. It was surprising ’cause no one — that’s what it was, we were breaking the algorithm, we were doing it a different way and sticking together, but that’s what always happens.”
“They make one sell out the other, their friend, divide and conquer, that’s a normal story,”
