Damon Dash stirred controversy throughout a current interview whereas selling his rock album 365 by evaluating his new artist to the late Aaliyah, which many discovered inappropriate and disrespectful. While talking with The Art of Dialogue, Dash launched Nicolette, a member of his band Black Guns, and made a jarring comparability that shortly drew criticism […]

Damon Dash stirred controversy throughout a current interview whereas selling his rock album 365 by evaluating his new artist to the late Aaliyah, which many discovered inappropriate and disrespectful.

While talking with The Art of Dialogue, Dash launched Nicolette, a member of his band Black Guns, and made a jarring comparability that shortly drew criticism on-line.

“She has her own solo albums as well, but she’s a big part of the Black Guns,” Dash mentioned. “It’s funny because you know, to me, she’s like if Aaliyah was white. If Aaliyah was white, she’d be a lesbian. That’s her and she has the same everything,” he added, whereas opening Nicolette’s jacket to indicate her physique.

Nicolette appeared visibly uncomfortable in the course of the second, trying confused as Dash continued to explain her contributions to the band. “She has a little bit of rhythm too,” he added. “But she can play instruments, and she writes and sings and she also did a lot of the administrative stuff with the album. So she helped me with my dream, and she earned her way into the band by working with the band.”

The response on-line was swift and important. One viewer commented, “Shorty definitely ain’t no Aaliyah.”

Another mentioned, “Calling that girl Aaliyah is crazy lmao.” A 3rd added, “Kinda cringy… ‘she is Aaliyah if Aaliyah was white’ then he opens her jacket to show how her body is like Aaliyah’s.”

One individual summed up the temper by writing, “That’s wild disrespectful to the Queen Aaliyah. Dame is my dogg but he’s gotta stop always talking about Aaliyah. Especially in that context. Let her rest.”

Dash’s remarks come as he promotes 365, a rock album created with Black Guns and rapper Freeway, marking a shift from his Hip-Hop background into rock territory.

Damon Dash and Aaliyah started courting in 2000 and remained collectively till her dying in a airplane crash within the Bahamas in August 2001.

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