The Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder addresses resurfacing images of him and the late singer hanging out together with a bunch of celebrities at a party thrown by the embattled hip-hop mogul.
- September 24, 2024
AceShowbiz - Dame Dash has addressed viral photos of him with Aaliyah after he's dragged into Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' legal drama. The record executive has claimed that nothing "happened" with him and the late singer despite pictures of the two hanging out together at one of Diddy's parties.
In the wake of the hip-hop mogul's arrest, Drake fan X account @keep6ixsolid shared old photos of a bunch of celebrities hanging, including Diddy, his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, Dame, Jay-Z and Aaliyah, hanging out together at one of Diddy's parties. The X user captioned the snaps with, "Bro, this is getting DARK! Dame Dash, Aaliyah, Jennifer Lopez, Jay-Z and Diddy all sharing a giant bed."
The pictures in question are from an annual Fourth of July party the Bad Boy Records founder used to throw in the Hamptons. According to one of the photos on Getty Images, the date of the party was July 2, 2000.
Catching wind of the conspiracy theory that arose with the photos, Dame popped up on Instagram Live on Saturday, September 21. "Nah, I didn't go to those parties...I went to one about 20 years ago in the Hamptons with Aaliyah but that's about it," he said. "A lot of people were at those, you know what I mean?"
Later in the video, he was asked again about the photos and declared his innocence. "Ain't s**t happen in the Hamptons. That's the day I met...that me and Aaliyah...we hung out there and then we left and that's what happened," he said. "That was 20 years ago, that was not in L.A. or Miami. I know they gonna play games with those pictures. It's all good, I don't really care."
When asked about Diddy's arrest on alleged sex crimes, Dame, whose real name is Damon Anthony Dash, said the situation is "sad," "crazy" and "shocking." He also weighed in on the people who were aware of the rapper's alleged crimes and did nothing about them.
"People will sit there and watch people do things that could be immoral but until they get caught nobody says anything," he said. "Whether it's illegal or immoral for me I just break out - I don't wait for people to get busted."
The 53-year-old added, "If something's against my moral fabric then I'm moving on. I make a choice to maybe walk away from some money or walk away from a relationship or a certain kind of financial opportunity."
Diddy was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in New York City on Monday night, September 16. He is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He remains held behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until his trial after he was denied bail for the second time.