Can he do it again – no Jay-Z??? In a new interview with YRB Magazine where he actually pulled up on a bicycle Dame Dash talks about his favorite subject, the get-back:
I started to go through a lot of bad press all of a sudden,” he explains of the period following the sale of his shares in Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear Clothing. “Like, the recession hit everybody, but me being a businessman and motherfuckers getting caught up in the storm, all my issues were completely public. And completely exaggerated. So the recession shit happens, I don’t give a fuck.”
Soon, Dash had begun to set the framework for a new business model. Introduced to the relatively unknown duo MGMT, Dash took a chance and threw rapper Jim Jones onto a remix of their sleeper hit “Electric Feel,” allowing Columbia Records to steer the promotional ship – and watching it subsequently crash and burn. “Because Columbia’s major retarded, they didn’t know how to exploit that correctly,” he says. “But again, we were so far ahead of the curve. Like, [MGMT] hadn’t even sold any records yet.”
“There is no business model for this. I don’t have no business plan. For once, I’m really going by what I really love,” he says. “Like, I did all of that shit, and it doesn’t work out to being happy. It works out to making money, but not as much money as I could [have made], and then being so disgusted with something I created. Like, I’m looking at Rocawear right now, and it’s not something I know that I could ever wear. I had to go from Roc-A-Fella to BlakRoc. So the only thing that I’m happy about in that respect is that there was an evolution.”
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You know? He’s right. Chasing cash and chasing dreams are 2 different animals. There’s nothing like doing what you love. Despite his huge downfall I bet he’s really at peace.
Learn from him. Dame needs to write a book. Whata life he’s had.
take it easy dude… he’s responsible for MOST of his downfall…
This is the same dude that threw out his socks after he wore them once! Man this dude brought all this shit on himself! He’s the ultimate hustler……smh