Damon Dash Presents, "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt"
Dame wanted to pay tribute to his onetime inseparable buddy by having several artists on the label remake some of Hov’s tunes from his various albums. The project was called Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.
“It’s a piece of us. It’s the only thing we still own that has anything to do with Roc-A-Fella,” he continued. “So back then, and being a part of the DNA of Roc-A-Fella, I was always trying to figure out a way to celebrate it. I knew the 10th anniversary was coming up. I said, ‘Let’s do an album with all the relevant artists doing a rendition of Jay records.’ But Jay said he didn’t like it, so we scrapped it. … You know what it was, he said the best record was Jimmy’s, so he didn’t want to put it out.”
You can check out the music at BlockSavvy, but you will have to register to the site to hear the music. I was only feeling, Kanye West version of a, “Million & One Questions.” Damon Dash must be wondering where did things go wrong. One day you in the videos and the next you can’t even get a phone call. That’s life though, your born alone and will die alone.
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October 15th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
danm
October 15th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
dame really want the real roc
October 15th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
fuck dame..he’s a faggot..he’s still tryin 2 cash in some ROC money…things must be really bad…i heard he had 2 sell his house & his wife tryin 2 divorce em…beanz don’t even fuck wit dame like dat anymore..shame on u dame..
October 15th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
the real reason he doing this is cuz he still owns the masters to reasonable doubt. thats how jay got the name roc-a-fella. he offered to dame, but dame kept the masters instead. he shoulda been doing this. gettin his suge knight on. trying to keep the repo man off yo ass. sell sell sell.
honestly he need to man up and go to jayz and try to get back in that circle sumwhere. dame was smart at one time, i’m sure he could help the artist jayz dont have time or patience for. like tru-life and bleek. throw that man a bone wit a lil gravy.
“heard muthafuckas sayin they made hov/ made hov say ok so make another hov”
this was the best he could do
October 15th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Ha this makes you wonder if anything is in the works like they announce Dame Dash is working on the last song for American Gangster. Who knows Jay and Nas patched things up and there beef seemed a lot more heated then the alleged one between Jay and Dame
October 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
I know Dame cries every night, praying for god to put Jay back in his life. quite sad really, I feel for the guy.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I dont like the Idea
But he’s Dame
He owns the masters
October 15th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
@#3
Dame is worth 200Mil
Im pretty sure he isnt strapped for ca$h
October 15th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
dame needs to get wit the boy weezy, fuck the camel he is irrelavant to the streets
October 15th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Obviously correct spelling is irrelavant (irrelevant) to the streets as well.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
damn that kanye “a million” track.
that freeway “politics as usual” is money.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
not a question dam is sitin on some paper nd is hella caked up but his cash flow is on pause now . . frm makin like 80 mill a year (roc in its hay day) to makin a couple hundred thou is a hell of a fall
jay surely smartin up & opend da market up
October 15th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
#3. dame is one of the richest dudes in hip hop, he aint lacking at all
October 15th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
YO WORD UP, I DONT BLAME JAY 4 NOT LETTING THIS SHIT OUT. THIS SHIT IS WACK, THESE DUDES SOUND HORRIBLE ON HIS BEATS ITS LIKE BLASPHEMY
October 16th, 2007 at 12:53 am
if any of yall actually listened to the tracks they werent that bad….. i heard the Ye version in 04′ but Rell and Nicole Wray renditions werent bad
October 16th, 2007 at 12:55 am
First off, I’m feelin that website Dame got running. I’m feelin that Juelz track too but the shit is mixtape material not album material. Dame is a smart dude that will always eat though so let’s not get O.D. here people. But I do agree “I heard muhfuckas sayin they made Hov, made Hov say ok so make another Hov”
Watch beef IV if you don’t think Dame is a genius.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Dame don’t own no masters jay own all his Masters the was the main reason he too the job at Def jam. That was part of the contract. read rolling stone December 2005
October 16th, 2007 at 2:14 am
I have always liked Dame…he my type of nigga but i can see why Jay distanced himself from him…Still im a strong beliver in Karma, so we’ll see how this goes man..everybody has reasons but they was like brothers and now he shutting him out…cold.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:29 am
awww poor Damon
October 16th, 2007 at 3:17 am
i got that tatted on my chest
October 16th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Jay owns his own masters people!
October 16th, 2007 at 5:26 am
no people, knowledge is power, dame owns the masters to reasonable doubt thats why all the other rocafella albums or affiliations are not in his name any more cause he wouldn’t give it up. read children,read.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:26 am
@#19..no he doesnt (Reasonable Doubt)
October 16th, 2007 at 6:14 am
he doesnt own reasonable doubt!!!the deal was they could keep rocafella if they gave jay reasonable doubt!!they choose not to. U go Dame!!!
October 16th, 2007 at 6:30 am
They all own part of the RD Masters, that’s Biggs,Dame & Jay-z.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:35 am
FOR THE IDIOT THAT SAID JAY WAS IRREVELANT TO THE STREET….I AM SURE HE THINKS ABOUT U EVERYTIME HE COUNTS HIS CLOSE TO A BILLY OF COIN…..U CLOWN JAY IS THE STANDARD, NOW THESE TRULY IRRELEVANT CLOWNS HAVE FUC*ED THE GAME UP! SO RETHINK YOUR HIP HOP HISTORY RAPPALOTTATL…..NO ONE IS FEELING THE SNAP, MAKE A SONG ABOUT A DANCE FROM THE SHARECROOPPER HOUSE HOOD MUSIC. NY RUNS,RAN IS THIS ISH! CHURCH!
October 16th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Yup…. Just cuz he got the Masters is the only reason hes doing it. Jay said he wasnt feeling the idea when he first thought of it so why put it out.
If only he didnt pull a underhanded move by trying to bring Camron in as VP of the Roc, they would still be cool. Now look, Cam is no where to found!!! He chose to be loyal to the wrong people.
Jay All Day Every Day!!
October 16th, 2007 at 8:46 am
^LMAO at this nigga thinkin jay had anythin to do wit cam disappearing, cam bodied jay and dipset were at the highest point in their careers last year, but then cam dissed 50
October 16th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Things must be rough for Dame nowadays…He down to his last dollars and trying to see where he can make a profit…The only valuable thing he has is the masters of RD that he bargained from Hov years ago…
Dame really is scrapping for money if he has to resort to the Biggie/Tupac route…Hov ain’t dead yet and the fact that Hov is still putting out quality music in present day, can only hurt/take away from any possible sales that Dame may incur in the future…Bad move Dame…
October 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am
^^^u stupid bitch
what is that quality music jay be putting out? name a hot jay z song since he came back? nigga fell off, he aint makin hot music anymore, has no buzz, nobody feelin his shit anymore
October 16th, 2007 at 10:59 am
aww dame looks so sad.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Southside…Grow the f*ck up and get a life…The lame name battering and e thuggin are played out and tired just like yourself, which is why I haven’t responded to your ignorance from here and other posts till now…
…Stop looking for attention and get some friends little boy…Then maybe you and your life won’t be so bitter…My first and last response to you…
October 16th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Damm Dame Dash use to be that Dude. That nigga use to be a Video Vixen on the low.I just realize Harlem nigga love dancing.LoL
“Oh I get it you Biggie and he Puffy” Nas
Off Topic
Naw I’m not a hating on dame, he a great business man. Just haven’t seen dame in the spot light lately. I blame him cuz he fuck the whole R.O.C empire by feeding for Dipset. Since he Cam mentor, he given Cam tip on good hiding spot
October 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Time for another lesson by the teacher. lol
Obviously, I can’t speak on Dame’s worth because I don’t know the dude, but what I can say is that there is HUGE different between “net worth” and liquified funds. You can be worth 200 mil or whatever and still be broke my friends. See, Micheal Jackson, see O.J. Simpson, see M.C. Hammer. If your net worth comes from investments in Houses, Cars, Stocks (not bonds b/c they are considered liquid), paintings ect.. you may not be that rich, because the only time that worth becomes “real,” i.e. liquified is when you can sell that asset for a profit. You can buy a house for 60 mil but only get 50 mil back depending on depreciation. I know that’s a big word for most of you but give it time you one day will learn. Anyway, a person real worth can only be accurately accounted once he settles all of his liabilites against his assests. Considering Dame had to get 5 mil cash (liquid funds) from Jay says that he may not be in such a great financial situation after all. Topic at hand. Dame’s way of getting some buzz plain and simple. He’s been sitting on these tracks since 04, why wait to release them now. He could sell them, but he would have to split a 1/3 of the profit to Jay for his portion of ownership in R.D. I don’t think they want to deal on the business level anymore so just put it out for a little airtime before your reality tv show kicks off! Whatever. I’m sure Jay doesn’t care. Lesson over.
One
October 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
this is a call for help.. he needs jay-z… camron is in hiding still..
October 16th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
i never did like dame lool like dude said above me the nigga was a video vixen for all jay’s songs always havin his shirt off and wavin crystal smh nigga now u broke runnin askin anotha man for help lol if ur such a genious dame step yo weight up fam u aint even respected no more lol…
VITAMIN WATER PEOPLE TRY IT…
October 17th, 2007 at 6:47 am
LMAO @ niggas giving lessons
October 17th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
JAY OWNS HIS MASTERS AND THE ROCAFELLA NAME. THAT’S REAL AND ONLY REASON HE TOOK THE DEF JAM JOB. DAME HAS PART IN REASONABLE DOUBT ONLY, BUT JAY OWNS THAT TOO.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I understand the shit with Dame and Jay, but did Biggs do to be cut off? He’s a Malcolm in the middle if you ask me.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Eny don’t waste your time! They can’t hear you… you’re makin sense…lol!
(now look at me..)
@ #27 (Meekness) Cam broke acts though… up until that time what sussecfull act did Jay bring in? All the state prop cats and dip cats came on the strength of dame from my understanding.
What kills me is how is Dame making a bad business move when y’all suppoprt any and everything Jay does… if american ganster is a good Idea this new reasonable doubt album is a great Idea!
October 18th, 2007 at 3:55 am
^^^^^^
*Successful…
*and Jay does…solely for money!
OFF TRACK: Didn’t the dude supposedly do it all in the game already and accept another job. Why is it every black person in the limelight has like 5 jobs? And why do these guys make more off of everything execpt they’re art form?
Fifty made more money off the Vitamin water deal than he probably with all his albums.