Aaliyah Prompted Damon Dash Jay-Z Feud: Aaliyah Dated Jay-Z
The famous falling out between former Roc-A-Fella bosses Jay-Z and Dame Dash was sparked by the men’s love for late R&B beauty Aaliyah, according to producer/director Choke No Joke.
Choke No Joke insists the now bitter relationship between Jay-Z and Dash extended beyond a series of business disagreements that led to the division of The Roc in 2004.
The director claims both Aaliyah first dated Jay-Z and the “Can I Get A….” rapper became unhappy when Dame started publicly dating the singer in late 2000.
Aaliyah and Dame were still seeing each other at the time of her death in a plane crash in 2001.
“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,” Choke tells Hip Hop Weekly.
“I was seeing Jay with her back around 2000, then Dame was with her after. All you have to do is look at the movie they did, Death of a Dynasty. In the movie they were fighting over a model. In real life she was a model, but singing is what she was known for first.”
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On January 29th 2009, real talk wrote:
DAMN LET AALIYAH REST IN ‘PEACE’. DONT NOBODY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE WHOLE JAY/DAME ISSUE ANYMORE!! BESIDES… BOTH DEM NIGGAZ WAS FUCKIN WIT OTHA BITCHES A FEW WEEKS AFTER THAT SHIT HAPPENED SO……………..
On January 31st 2009, FIVE wrote:
I agree!Nobody gives a damn about them fall out at this point,so why are we still lookin for a nail to hang that shit on? Then to try and tarnish Aaliyah lagacy by sayin she was in between this shit! That’s fucked up. We don’t know what was either sittuation so, out of respect for her passing, kill this nonsense………
On February 3rd 2009, Brroklyn B wrote:
dont know if its true or not but i read in an articles YEARS ago that aaliyah and jay was god something like that was jays god sister or something
i hate when people make small things into big issues and chock no joke better watch the bull he speaking too
On March 16th 2009, ERICA wrote:
the who thing is funny…..so what damn
On July 27th 2009, Kendra wrote:
Yeah I read in Teen People in 2000 that Aaliyah and Jay-Z were spotted at a club in the corner kissing. Didn’t think anything of it they were both young and single. No big deal. Maybe it wasn’t serious between her and Jay and she moved on.
On August 14th 2009, Weedy wrote:
Its a whole load of rubbish, Aaliyah and jay z wer gud friends. She was dating damon dash and they wer plannin 2 gt married b4 she died. Personally i dnt feel he cared about her as much as she did him, cuz i didnt take him long 2 move on after her death
On November 17th 2009, Anonymous Girl wrote:
Personally, I believe that Jay and Aaliyah were good friends, they had both said so themselves when at one point the media was almost in a trance of drilling them about their appearances and stuff like that. I honestly do think, however, that Jay Z had a crush on Aaliyah as did half of the rap moguls around at that time. But she didn’t feel the same as him, but she remained friends with him in spite of the heavy floating feelings. Damon Dash’s sister, Stacey Dash had before that time had become best friends with Aaliyah, and she hooked her up with Damon. They were planning on being married in the spring of 2002, but unfortunately her death put an eternal halt on that plan.
Jay Z and Dame even said that the reason they fell out was because; Damon felt like Jay Z was starting to take control of the Rocawear/ Roc-A-Fella dynasty and had stopped including Dame in some of the legal and social decisions being made towards the businesses and it pissed Dame off.
Jay Z then started becoming more internationally independent and just decided to eventually cut Dame off from the businesses completely. After that without any real steady income, Damon went bankrupt, and Jay Z went on to become even more of a mega star in his own right, not to mention him and Beyonce’s marriage in later time. He had dated Beyonce in 2000.
People tend to take little fly-by-night rumors they hear through the grapevine that most of the time are false, and stemming from pictures, or he say/she say to grow into something that can get out of control.
On January 24th 2010, Lady J wrote:
AALIYAH AND JAY Z NEVER DATED. AALIYAH EVEN CONFIRMED THAT ON MTV: STRIPPED.
They were just really good friends. And when they hung out people always thought because both of them were so “hot” as far as popularity goes that there was more than just a friendship being pursued. But that wasn’t even the case.
Aaliyah was NOT the cause for Jay Z and Damon’s feud. What ignited their feud was a few years after Aaliyah’s death, Jay Z decided that professionally he wanted to go his seperate ways and wanted to break all financial and professional [business] ties with Damon.
He didn’t inform Damon right away, instead he dropped subtle hints for example; Making business decisions for Roc-A-Fella by himself. Even though him and Damon had signed a deal to be partners in whatever legal issues come along regarding Roc A Fella.
He started adding more to the clothing line [Roc A Wear] which Damon was also a co-founder of.
He became more and more independent and kind of started leaving Damon in the aftermath of it all and Damon confronted Jay about the whole ordeal.
Jay and Damon fell out over the business agreement and Damon ended up signing off his contract with all Roc-A-Fella proceedings including the clothing line Roc-A-Wear.
That right there put Damon in a very big glitch, considering the fact that him being CEO/ Co Founder of those two companies along with Jay Z was helping his income.
Once he went ahead and signed himself off from the entire label and Jay Z he went bankrupt.
Jay Z on the other hand went solo and got paid like crazy, while Damon even to this day is struggling to really find a steady job potential for himself.
Damon had been on the Roc-A-Fella team since the mid 90s that’s how he was able to “live it up” with Jay Z and all of his friends and business associates.
It wasn’t because they both had a thing for Aaliyah and jealousy played the part. It was completely different situation that happened years after Aaliyah had passed and it was pertaining to Jay Z ’s decision not to let Damon know right off the bat that he doesn’t want him on the Roc team anymore.
Jay Z i believe however had a crush on Aaliyah, but they were never dating. The whole “kissing” rumors was just a little bit of “zest” that journalists and media wanted to add to the Jay Z Aaliyah story just to give the readers more to talk about and get hyped up over.
But it was confirmed FALSE. RIP Baby Girl.