

“What’s the problem? Do we need to do something before we go on the road? Take this outside?” The video cut to static. “Why are you going at me today?” she asked. Annoyed at the interruption, Biggie mocked her question. View Moreįrom behind the camera, hampton asked whether he intended to consume their entire bag of weed. She was one of those people that if she did something first everyone followed suit…The trajectory of the world woulda been a lot different because she was a forward thinker,” gushed Dash of his late love, who was just 22 years old at the time of her death.Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. “The trajectory of the world would’ve been a lot different had she been on this planet…because she was an opinion leader. “I’m almost a fan of myself…Who’s that guy? Who coulda be that cool to be with Aaliyah? Like, who coulda actually been with Aaliyah? Me! And that’s crazy!” “It’s almost amazing to me that I’m the guy who was with Aaliyah” admitted the State Property star. “I would only be around ppl I love! That became the only currency I cared about, is how I felt.” “And after she passed, it changed my whole life because I would only do what I love!” he said. The record exec shared how this new understanding redefined his overall approach to life. I didn’t even understand what that feeling is and was able to really achieve that with her, so now I know what it feels like, so I was able to identify it when it happened again.”
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It was almost an accident,” Dash confessed of their unlikely love story.Ĭertain the two would have someday wed, he explained that his romance with the “I Care For You” singer taught him how to love for the first time. We were just really good friends and we fell for real. “Our intention at first wasn’t even to be in love.
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In response to Kelly’s federal trial for racketeering and sex trafficking charges, Dash said, “I was just shocked at how long he got away with it, how many people turned and looked the other way, how many people were still, you know, involved with him in any kinda way knowing all those things.”

“We talked about it up to the point that it hurt and then she said, ‘I don’t wanna talk about it no more,'” he recalled of the relationship between the two who collaborated on Aaliyah’s 1994 debut album, Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number, which Kelly produced. Regrading Aaliyah’s highly publicized and controversial marriage to Kelly when she was just 15 years old while Kelly was 27, Dash said that they spoke about it “lightly” and he helped her to overcome the trauma. No one really speaks on it…So in respect for her memory, I don’t say a lot of things.”

When asked if he had addressed the issue with Williams, Dash quickly replied, “F**k yea.” However, when probed to elaborate on the conversation, he declined, saying, “Ask him…Because of my respect for Aaliyah and her family…Everyone’s respectful of her memory. So, that’s what really pissed me off about the situation when I heard about that.” He went on to explain his point of contention with the famed director, a former friend who Dash had frequently collaborated with on music videos such as Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin'” and “Hey Papi”: “But what I was really more tight about was that I had heard that Lenny Kravitz had offered her a jet and that Hype had took the jet. “She got on the plane and she always had a very serious fear of planes in general, so she had to overcome a fear to get on that plane on the way there.”

“When she actually saw the plane…She said, ‘I don’t like this plane.’ I was like, ‘Well, don’t get on it.’ She was like, ‘Well, I got to because I got work to do,'” recalled Dash. Dame Dash Is The Industry Uncle We Should Be Listening To
