Dame Dash Claims Jay-Z Copied His Style On 'Big Pimpin': 'He Was Pretending To Be Me'
Dame Dash claimed in a new interview that Jay-Z pretended to be him when he made "Big Pimpin'."
The entrepreneur and record executive recently appeared on the 56th episode of the "Moguls in the Making" podcast and talked about the rapper's 2000 track, saying: "In my mind, everything Jay said, he was pretending to be me. Yes."
"So [you're] saying that he ain't telling his story [but] telling your story?" host Omari Heflin asked in a follow-up question.
Dame Dash simply replied, "Duh."
His claims received mixed reactions from netizens and hip-hop fans.
"If Jay was pretending to be Dame, he did a better job at it than Dame did it being himself," said one netizen on The Shade Room's repost of the clip on Instagram.
"He sounds like a scorned ex that just can't let it go," wrote someone else.
"Breaking News: Jay-Z doesn't give a F%&@," quipped a different commenter.
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"This n***a [has] been doing interviews about Jay-Z for 10 years straight," claimed another netizen.
"He will never be happy until he accepts who he is and who Jay is," a different comment read.
"Dame has to let it go. He claims he 'made Jay-Z' yet that's STILL the highlight of his entire life. What have you accomplished since then? Why didn't you make another Jay Z?" wrote another person.
Meanwhile, some seemingly sided with Dame on the issue.
"I love Dame," said one netizen on the "Moguls in the Making" YouTube upload.
"Dame is a G.O.A.T.," wrote someone else.
The song Dame talked about, "Big Pimpin'," was released by Jay-Z in April 2000 as one of the tracks on his fourth studio album, "Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter."
Per Genius, the track is "an ode to the 'pimping' lifestyle" -- having sex with girls without emotional attachment.
The track featuring Southern hip-hop duo UKG achieved success and was even included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time for 2004 at the 467th spot.
It became a "crowd favorite" and stayed a total of 20 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
Interestingly, Jay-Z and Dame Dash were previously friends and co-founders of Roc-A-Fella Records, alongside Kareem Burke, before it was sold to Def Jam, where Jay-Z became the president.
The possible reasons for their fall-out were allegedly due to creative differences, personality clashes, ego issues and outside influences.
