Damon Dash is speaking out on Surviving R. Kelly.
Last week, the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder — who dated Aaliyah when she tragically died in a plane crash in 2001 — spoke with Hip Hop Motivation about the controversial Lifetime docuseries.
In the show, former backup singer Jovante Cunningham claims she saw Kelly have sex with the then-15-year-old singer on a tour bus. Allegedly, the two musicians secretly got married in 1994 until their union was later annulled.
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According to Dash, his former girlfriend had trouble talking about the disgraced R&B singer while they were together. In regards to their relationship, and the show, Damon says:
“I watched some of it yesterday, as much as I could tolerate… And I’m not gonna lie, as a human I was tight. I was tight about a couple of things. Number one, there was a girl that was trying to talk about it and couldn’t. And I remember Aaliyah trying to talk about it and she couldn’t. She just would leave it at, ‘That dude was a bad man’… And I didn’t really wanna know what he did to the extent that I might feel the need… to deal with it. Just ‘cause that’s what a man does. But it just was so much hurt for her to revisit it. It was like, ‘I wouldn’t even wanna revisit it without a professional.’ Whatever got done was terrible.'”
Because of Aaliyah’s alleged trauma, Dash wanted nothing to do with Kelly, who collaborated with his business partner JAY-Z.
“If you remember [JAY and Kelly’s 2002 album] The Best of Both Worlds, you don’t see my name on that… I never wanted no parts of that… So my homes [JAY] was doing that s**t. I was like ‘Bro, you know homie violated and he violated my girl. He violated a friend of yours’… So, you know, when he moved forward I was like… ‘Yo, I don’t want no parts of that. Put my part to Aaliyah’s breast cancer thing.'”
The 47-year-old implies that JAY’s work with Kelly led to the end of their professional relationship.
“Karma happens. But the thing that I didn’t understand was, like, ‘I know I’m not f**king with that’ and because of the moral challenge and him choosing one way, I knew, morally, we weren’t the same. So, to me, Rock-A-Fella was defunct. It was over. I couldn’t f**k with it. It was something that, to me, was just like…not to say ‘unforgivable,’ but I couldn’t understand it… I thought, ‘Well, the people aren’t gonna have that’. But nobody said nothing.'”
WATCH the full interview (below):
[Image via FayesVision/WENN.]
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