Dame Dash Says Lyor Cohen Negatively Impacted His Relationship With Jay Z

Original Story The history of Dame Dash's time at Def Jam Records and his relationship with former label executive Lyor Cohen is long and storied.

Recently sitting down with Complex TV, Dash talked about why he believed Lyor Cohen is bad for Hip Hop culture and claims his decisions have hurt certain situations.

"I personally don't like how he interfered with my personal relationship with Jay Z and the history that could have been made had he not did what he did and the way he did it," he said. "I think he should be questioned for it. I'm not usually one to speak on other people's business... like I've seen the way he's treated friends of mine. Irv Gotti, I feel like he robbed Irv Gotti of DMX and Ja Rule and I didn't see them support Irv when he was having his defining moments. No one sent me any kites in my defining moments and I just don't think it's fair to continuously make money off our culture, not make money off your own culture, not use any of your money to help our culture but use the money you make from us to help your own culture and then not to give the respect to the people that are the DNA of the culture and to instill a mentality that we need to ask another culture to put out our own music. I don't like who he empowers and how he empowers them."