More Dash Family Dramatics
Posted by Bossip Staff
Apparently, Damon Dash doesn’t believe that a mind is a terrible thing to waste:
The never-ending battle between hip-hop mogul Damon Dash and his ex-girlfriend, Linda Williams, continues – once again trapping their 17-year-old son, Damon “Boogie” Jr., in the middle.
Boogie, who had lived with Dash in Manhattan since he was 8, moved to Long Island with his mother last summer, leaving the Upper West Side’s Dwight School to enroll in a school that fielded a football team. But last month, Boogie went back to live with Dash, and Williams now says his father “refuses to enroll him back in school.”
“Out of the blue, my son tells me he wants to live with his father,” Williams [said]. “He left here Dec. 2 and hasn’t been in school since.” A source close to Dash assured us that Boogie will go back to school tomorrow now that the holiday break is over, and that the music impresario has been looking for a school for his son since he moved back in.
The insider said, “A woman who had their son taken away years ago has no credibility. Damon was a single father, raising a boy on his own. Linda needs to leave him alone.” Williams had sole custody of her son until Boogie was handed over to Dash in 2002.
Williams originally contacted us last week in response to our report that Dash took their son to The Plumm nightclub to deejay a New Year’s Eve gig. “A child should not be in an adult club that serves alcohol,” she fumed. “Did anyone even check my son’s ID? His father should stop trying to make a dollar off of him and get him back into high school.”
Williams took Dash to court on Dec. 18, charging educational neglect. The next court date is next week. “I’m happy for my son that he is pursuing [deejaying] but not at the expense of school,” Williams said. Both Dash and a lawyer for Dash Jr. had no comment.
We gotta agree with Jr.’s mom on this point. Stop pimpin out your boy and let him get an education, gotdamnit.
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Dame gotta make a dollar somehow. SMDH
whoa…
He needs to get that boy back in school! WTF?
I am pretty sure Dash is not that dumb and will put his son back in school.
What is the mother’s problem seriously? Why haven’t you got your son back since you know this? I would have snatched my son back from his father so fast if he wasn’t in school.
Wow
oh my
Top T E N you dead BEATz!!!!!!!
**BUrP**
pimpin ya own son — my oh my
I don’t believe a word she says, she really does need to get over Dame and hopefully on his 18th birthday, Dame won’t have to deal with the ignorant baby momma sh*t. (one more year Dame and you will be finally free of Linda, but this is what you get when a woman is scorned)…..
Dame always acted like he was flush with money, but he, like so many, lived beyond his means, overextended his credit, and probably seen some investments sour. It’s a typical scenario, but more in the public eye.
I am by no means a Dame Dash fan. Not even close. However, let’s put this in perspective. The boy was in school, but his mother just let him withdraw during the school term on December 2, 2008 (before the quarter ended) and go to live with his father. Now, this change was at the son’s request. Hmmm. She didn’t have enough control over the child to make sure that he finished the quarter, then move? I believe it’s a little difficult to enroll a child in school for about 10 days (if he was going to live with Dame on December 2nd, the Christmas break was approaching approximately 10+ days later). And, since there is obviously no communication between the adults, how soon before the son arrived was Dame alerted that he was coming? Enrolling a child in school ain’t that easy. Trust me, I know.
And, finally, isn’t she always dragging that man to court, even though she didn’t have legal custody? Give me a break lady. Think about your son.
If this story is true that’s real HARD TIMES for Dash, it’s too bad many black rappers-producers-showbiz stars don’t know hos to manage their fortunes… Just spending,debts,living like real billionnaire.
Its boring. Wake me up Im snooring. ugh
This woman needs to stop……no matter how much money the father has a mother has to really fuck up for a judge to take custody……I think this woman’s a lunatic……Most of Dec is vacation for kids for Christmas……I know he wishes he never slipped up with this chick
Damon should stop using this boy and treating him like he is a grown up. He has been out of school for well over a month and all Dame can think about is getting paid. He was always reckless in caring for his son. He had him in the clubs as an adolescent.
The mother can’t control the boy. She doesn’t have custody. He knows he can go back and forth and cause a stir between the two. If he doens’t like mom’s rules he can go to daddy and vice versa.
STOP PIMPIN HIS SON OUT??? THE NIGGA IS BROKE! SAD, BUT IT’S A RECESSION!
…THAT’S LIKE SHITTY DIDDY ASKIN’ AUBREY HO’DAY BACK TO DANITY LAME…JUST PLAIN UNHEARD OF
Boogie, return to school and get a job, lol…
Just enroll him in a magnet school public schools are just as good as private ones.
I grew up in a situation similar to this with feuding parents (just more broke) so I can see this from different perspectives. Neither parent is completely in the right.
Jr lived with Dam since age 8. That means both parents were together until then or he WASN’T solely with Dame until then. Since he’s 17 he’s been with Dame about HALF his life. The “insider” makes it seem like Jr always lived solely with Dame. Biased…? The boy has been flip flopped any damn way, which is normal when parents are split up and both are in your life. Regardless of legal rights, since when is it wrong to respect a parent?
ANY missed school at all is BOTH parents fault …if the mom couldn’t control her son leaving, Dame still didn’t say “STAY in school at your moms UNTIL you can transfer”. Feuding parents are greedy with their kids. They are BOTH wrong. And most of December ISN’T vacation for students. That’s just kinda ridiculous.
And on the other side, of course a 17 year old would want to leave school and hang out in clubs with the parent who has more…if not more money, than at least more access and connections. He’s 17, he can get all this in a year. They BOTH should have put it into perspective to him. And to anyone who said they would have snatched the son back from Dame, Dame probably stopped that with the quickness.
How did she lose custody in the first place. is she an ex-pipe head?? if so and she’s recovered, we can’t just assume she’s full of sh*t. that’s not completely fair.
i’m more inclined to believe that Damon IS letting his son dj in clubs and hang out because the kid probably has way better chance (in the eyes of a man like Damon Dash) in the entertainment industry than he does with secondary (AND post secondary) education.
i think she should not have let him move back with his father until the semester was over. apparently she had a case if they went to court.
whatever the deal is, i hate when people don’t encourage their kids to go to school because they ‘won’t use it anyways if they want to be a rapper’.
i have way more respect for someone like Master P (who i think SUCKS as an artist) who made his kid go to college. not just some rinky dink state college, but the kid is at USC (go Trojans!).