Damon Dash Blasts JAY-Z For Being A ‘Liar’ & A ‘Bully’ Amid Lawsuit Over NFT Sale Of ‘Reasonable Doubt’
Last week, we shared that JAY-Z, 51, and Roc-A-Fella executives filed a lawsuit against Damon Dash, 50, for his alleged NFT sale of ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ the 1996 record that launched JAY’s career and went on t sell over a million copies. Dash, who co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Hov and Kareem Burke in 1995, is calling out his former close friend for suing him. JAY claims Dash was trying to steal his album and sell it, without his permission, alongside execs at digital marketplace SuperFarm as an NFT — a non-fungible digital token which has taken the art market by storm.
While Dash insists that he owns a third of the record company and can do whatever he wants with his cut. Speaking on JAY’s lawsuit he says, “He lying. That’s a whole lie. Jay owns one-third of ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ They just said that I tried to sell an NFT of ‘Reasonable Doubt’ and … it’s not true. I’m not running around to different places trying to auction off ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ I’ve been working with one platform and that’s SuperFarm. And the thing is I own a third of Roc-A-Fella Records and I can sell my third if I feel like it. Jay himself tried to buy my third and it was a crackhead deal. He offered me [$1.5 million] like I was Pookie or something from New Jack City.” Dash declined and the lawsuit followed, trying to stop him from selling third to someone else.
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Dash goes on to blast Hov for his bully-like business morals. “That’s what corporate always does to the independent guy. It’s a case of corporate versus independent and how they try to bully me — but they are trying to bully the wrong one. It is the same f**king game. It just seems like they so mad if I get money. I don’t know why but why can’t I sell my third to who ever I want, whenever I want? I don’t have to ask … He [Jay] don’t want nobody to eat but him. The real issue is [he has to] to compromise a man’s reputation for no reason. He thinks Roc-A-Fella records is his — it is ours — and he’s doing all this on Roc-A-Fella’s behalf. He’s got ‘only one man to eat’ syndrome and ‘everybody else got to work for him’ syndrome and ‘kiss the ring and we’re gonna mess up his reputation’ syndrome if you look under the hood. It continues to happen. is f**ked up for one black man to do that to another black man in front of all these people and whoever believes that sh*t is a sucker. I got a bridge I can sell you too.”
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