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Everyone knows that Dame Dash is in the hole, going through a divorce, and maybe a midlife crisis. He says the reason that he has financial problems is because of his generosity: Continue »

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Rachel Roy has decided to jump ship on her 4 year marriage to Damon Dash:

He’s got no money, but he sure does have mo’ problems. Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear co-founder Damon Dash has been slapped with divorce papers by wife Rachel Roy. Continue »

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Dame Dash and his famous son attended the birthday party for Obama artist, Ryan Simmons. They kept it well inside the budget, and by that we mean his son was the DJ and probably didn’t even get paid for the sh*t. SMH

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Here are some pics of Damon Dash, resident scuzzbucket Jimmy Jones, and Dame’s son Boogie at some listening party this weekend. Damn, Dame is looking tired as hell. He might want to jump on the Proactiv bandwagon so he can clear that face up while making some stacks in the process. Looks like little Dame is growing up to be a nice young man.

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Here are some pics of Aaliyah and Jay-Z partying it up at one of his Hamptons BBQ’s back in the day. At the time, Damon Dash was her boyfriend reportedly…we don’t know about her being a jumpoff, but perhaps a damn close friend to both of them to say the least.

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Rumors are flying around that the real reason Jay-Z and Dame Dash fell out is because of Aaliyah:

Trying to stir up interest in his upcoming Roc-A-Fella documentary, reveals what everybody already knows that one of the reason’s behind the Dame Dash / Jay Z clash was Aaliyah. Choke tells Hip Hop Weekly, “Both Jay and Dame was involved with a certain R&B singer, who I’m not gonna say her name out of respect ’cause she ain’t around to defend herself, but I believe that was a part of the initial friction. I was seeing Jay with her back around 2000, then Dame… Continue »

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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. Continue »

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It looks like Damon Dash and his family are depending on Boogie’s DJ skills to carry the family torch: Continue »

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According to Livesteez, a new documentary will take a closer look at the sour dealings between Damon Dash & Jay-Z:

Many have speculated on the breakup of the Roc-A-Fella camp, but Choke No Joke knows first-hand of what made this empire come crashing down.

The former BET producer and one-time Roc-A-Fella employee explores the infamous breakup of the Roc-A-Fella empire in his upcoming documentary. Choke has combined footage stemming from over a decade and turned it into a probing documentary called “I Am Choke No Joke”. Continue »

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Damon Dash breaks down his dealings with Jay-Z. Apparently, he no longer has the Hov’s back, but somehow, I doubt Jay-Z’s losing any sleep over that shyte. LOL at that sinister chuckle at the end.

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Naomi was flying solo while rocking the Cruella DeVille swag at the screening of The Wrestler in NYC last night. Rachel Roy was spotted at the event as well, looking rather dazed and confused. So between the two, we figured we’d ask: Who Looked More Bangin???

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Mr. Financial Turmoil himself was showing some unusual behavior at a recent event:

Damon Dash couldn’t sit still during John Galliano’s speech at the CFDA Fashion Fund and told his table at Sky light Studios he was “bugging out,” prompting a guest to say, “He was really a mess”

Poor Dame, such an easy target these days. Probably soaking up all this ‘free publicity.”

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Jim Jones made the cover of Complex Magazine and in the interview he sets the record straight about his stacks, music and beef:

You have a guest role on the Starz show Crash. What else are you getting into for ’09?

Jim Jones: Well, the sky’s the limit, man. There are so many things I want to do. We just started a comedy division together: me, Dame and Mike Epps. We’re getting ready to do the big concert with Epps, and we got a soundtrack to the comedy show. It’s called From Hollywood to Harlem—it should be really funny. Mike Epps is brilliant. I want to explore the movie world through comedy and try to get in that way. Not too many people know me in Hollywood, and that’s the place I need to be. I need everybody to know me.

And what about the play you’re starring in?

Jim Jones: I’m doing a play called Hip-Hop Monologues Off-Broadway. It’s something we derived for my new album. You know how everybody does a listening session and all the publicity comes through, and there’s a little bit of liquor there, and they play the music? I got tired of doing that; I wanted to do something very different. Something to gain people’s attention ’cause I want this album to be a real success. We’re going to do the best verses that fit the situation out of all the songs to pull this play off, and then we’re going to have a full stage set, the backgrounds, and are just going to paint the whole picture. But for the most part, I’ll be how John Leguizamo was in Freak; I’ll be the center of attention.

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It looks like Damon Dash is starting sh*t:

Damon Dash is telling more tales about his estranged business partner, Jay-Z. His latest: that Jigga set off a feud with Kanye West by refusing to bestow his bling on Kanye.

Dash claims the simmering beef dates back to a 2003 Chicago concert, where the then-up-and-coming Kanye expected ruling Roc-A-Fella artist Jay to “knight” him by presenting him with a gleaming chain.

But, according to Dash, Jay didn’t want to fork over the chain.

“This n- [Kanye ] was like, ‘Wow. [Jay-Z] ain’t going to give me the chain,’” Dash alleges in December’s Complex magazine. “I had to take off my chain and give it to him, and I was heated. I had the real canary diamonds. That s- cost $40,000! I told Kanye, ‘Yo, you got to give that back when we get off this stage!’”

Dash contends that after Jay-Z violated the code of hip-hop chivalry, “Kanye hated Jay-Z.” But a rep for Kanye tells us the story is “ridiculous and totally false.” Others suggested that Dash, whose business relationship with Jay ended badly, has trotted out the story to hype his latest protege, rapper Jim Jones.

“This is sad,” says one source. “Damon does this every time he’s promoting an artist. He just makes things up.”

We knew it wouldn’t be long before Damon started some sh*t. When you back a man into a corner, he will do anything to get out of it, even if that means acting like a lil’ b*tch. Man up, Dame. SMH

Here’s another pic of Damon at the Vogue party:

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Although Bossip exclusively chopped it up with Damon Dash late last year and he denied rumors that his checks stopped coming in, sh*t has reportedly hit the fan:

A bank wants his Tribeca condos, the city is seizing his SUV and his lawyer dropped him for not paying his legal bills. The co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear – who in 2005 sold his share in the clothing empire to Jay-Z for $20 million – is under assault in Manhattan Supreme Court from lawyers, lenders and landlords fed up with not getting paid. The fall has been a dizzying one for Dash, who has gone from owning Keds, a vodka company and 1,300 pairs of shoes to dodging bills and accusing a former accountant of ripping him off for millions of dollars. “I’ve worked with musicians, artists and entertainers that in the eyes of the media are very wealthy,” said lawyer Jason Gabbard, who represented a fashion firm that settled a suit against Dash and his wife over $148,505 in unpaid fees. “But to borrow a phrase from my Kentucky homeland, they haven’t got a pot to p— in – they’re broke.” A Manhattan judge this week ordered the city to seize Dash’s Chevrolet Tahoe, since he wasn’t making the $714.99 monthly payment on the leased SUV.

Ever since the Camel break-up, the checks have not been coming in for poor little Dame. It may be about time to get a “regular” job again, and quit playing rap mogul with no rappers.

Pop the hood and get a gander at broke @ss Dame with a jumpoff, Valeisha Butterfield, and his daughter Ava, at the Jim Jones bufoonery. Continue »