Damon 'Dame' Dash sat down for a candid and frank interview about the Lifetime series Surviving R Kelly last week, and for the first time shared how his ex Aaliyah felt about the man she married at the age of 15.
'I watched some of it yesterday, as much as I could tolerate,' said Dash while appearing on Hip Hop Motivation. 'Number one: there was a girl when she was even trying to talk about it and she couldn't, and I remember Aaliyah trying to talk about it and she couldn't. She would just leave it at: 'That dude was a bad man.'
Dash, who was dating Aaliyah when she was tragically killed in 2001 plane crash, then added: 'I've been tight about this sh*t for years.' He later explained to host Kenyatta Griggs that Kelly played a big part in the demise of his partnership with Jay Z, who in 2002 agreed to work with the singer despite knowing what he had done to Aaliyah.
Dash admitted that he never really learned the full story regarding what transpired between Aaliyah and Kelly, who was 27 when he wed his then-15-year-old protégée. 'I didn't really want to know what he did, to the extent that I would, you know, deal with it because that's what a man does,' explained Dash.
'But it was so much hurt for her to revisit it. I wouldn't want to revisit it without a professional. Whatever got done was terrible.' That is why his partner's decision to collaborate with Kelly was too much for him to handle, with Dash claiming he donated all profits he made from Best of Both Worlds to a breast cancer charity in memory of Aaliyah. 'So what you think I felt. I'm human bro.
I had to look the other way, all these years,' said Dame in another interview, this time with Nick Cannon. 'That n**** did a record with the n**** that raped my girl, that he liked as well. But no one said nothing.' He had started the same sentiments about that collaboration just a few days prior with Griggs. 'I know I'm not f***n' with that,' explained a very blunt Dash.
'I knew, morally, we weren't the same. So, to me, Roc-a-Fella was defunct. It was over. I couldn't f*** with it. It was something that, to me—I don't wanna say 'unforgivable,' but I couldn't understand it.' Kelly's former dancer Jovante Cunningham revealed that she saw Kelly having sex with Aaliyah when she was just 15.
'[I saw] things that an adult should not be doing with a child. He was having sex with Aaliyah,'. said Cunningham. '[You] get on the bus there are bunks and these bunks have little curtains you can pull at night if you don't want anyone to see you sleeping. It just so happened we were all laying in our bunks and the curtains are open, everybody's communicating, laughing.
It was prank time when the door flew open on the bus. Robert was having sex with Aaliyah.' Aaliyah's mother later denied this and the claim that her daughter married Kelly, despite a marriage certificate that seems to suggest otherwise, on which it gives Aaliyah's age as 18 rather than 15 to make the union legal.
Jay Z meanwhile is one of the many stars who has refused to speak out in the wake of the series, which he decided to participate in despite being contacted by producer dream hampton.
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