Dame Dash Calls Diddy Situation ‘Sad,’ Addresses Old Photos of Him and Aaliyah at Mogul's Party
Dame Dash spoke out in a recent IG Live about old pictures that resurfaced of him and Aaliyah at a party with Diddy and others.
Dame Dash has spoken out after old photos of him, Aaliyah, Jay-Z, and Jennifer Lopez at a party with Sean “Diddy” Combs resurfaced online in light of the Bad Boy Records founder's arrest.
Celebrating the release of his new Apple Fish Kids channel, Dame addressed the viral photos, which shows the group on a giant bed, after fans started to bring them up in his comments.
Dame denied speculation that anything nefarious occurred at the party, saying, “I don't go to those parties...I went to one about 20 years ago in the Hamptons and that was it," said Dame (around the 12:15 mark in the below video). "A lot of people were at those, you know what I mean?"
Later on (Around 20:18 into his IG Live), Dame spoke again about the party he went to. "Ain't shit happen in the Hamptons. That's the day I met Aaliyah," he added. Dame and Aaliyah dated until her passing in August of 2001.
"We hung out there and then we left and that’s what happened...That was 20 years ago and that was not in LA, that was in Miami," he continued.
"I know they’re gonna play games with those pictures. I don’t really care.”
Elsewhere in the livestream, after calling the Diddy situation “sad for hip-hop,” Dame gave his perspective on the people that were around for the music mogul’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,” said Dame. “Whether it’s illegal or immoral for me I just break out — I don’t wait for people to get busted.”
“If something’s against my moral fabric then I’m moving on,” he said. “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 taken into custody earlier this week in Manhattan. The mogul, who has since pleaded not guilty, is being charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
Earlier this year, Dame spoke about Diddy and his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura on the show Choppin’ It Up.
“It’s very disappointing to see that from someone that, again, I considered my peer,” said Dame about the 2016 footage of Diddy assaulting Cassie at a hotel. “Because we’re the brotherhood of hip-hop, [we’ve] showed a certain degree of respect, but you can’t unsee that and it’s really a shame... And what I think when I see that…Number one, I got daughters,” he added.
“So, you know, if that were something I would see happening to my daughter…Puff, he’s dead. I’d go do the time or I’d figure out how not to do the time, but I don’t think I could handle watching another man or a man or any man touching or doing any kind of violence to my daughters.”
