Damon Dash

Jay-Z Book Has 'Plenty Of Revealing Moments'

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Do you want to know when Jay-Z and Beyonce plan to have children? Those behind-the-scenes moments hanging out with Chris Martin and G...

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11/4/08: An Interview With Jeff Deutchman

Farihah Zaman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Farihah Zaman

In 2008, Deutchman curated dozens of first-person accounts of Obama's election to make 11/4/08. I talked with him about the film's historical relevance and his thoughts on whether the administration lived up to all that hope.

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French Contemporary Artist and Legend CharlElie Couture in New York City

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

We first met French Contemporary Artist CharlElie Couture at the French Embassy in New York for the Wynton Marsalis ceremony in the fall of 2009. He ...

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DD172: Damon Dash Tries To Recreate Space Like Andy Warhol's Factory

New York Observer | David Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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You can spend hours at 172 Duane Street, in Tribeca, and still have no clue what's going on here. People come and go at all hours. A thick cloud of po...

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Dash's BlakRoc Disses Black Rock

Rob Fields | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Fields

How can you call something "BlakRoc" when the black folks on the project only rap and the rockers are all white?

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Should the Government Bail Out Hip Hop?

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011

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Casey Gane-McCalla

Just like rappers, Wall Street execs spend obscene amounts of money on strippers, cars, vacations and houses. How come their houses and cars aren't being repossessed like all the rappers?

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Rap Mogul Damon Dash In Dire Financial Straits

New York Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011

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A bank wants his Tribeca condos, the city is seizing his SUV and his lawyer dropped him for not paying his legal bills. It's not easy being Damon Dash...

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Barackalypse Now!: Boomers Hope That 'Bama Will Bring The Death Of Bling. Bitch, PLEASE!

Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Natasha Vargas-Cooper

The way Dash declares his love for them big-bodied Benzes to Obama's admission that he snorted a little blow: it's being open, unapologetically, which is something neither the focus-grouped Clinton nor the liver-spotted McCain could do.

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