Are these Roc-A-Fella band members at odds?
Other than being assholes, as per Kanye’s verse on “Get ‘Em High”, one thing Dame Dash and Kanye West have in common is their foundation: Roc-A-Fella Records. The label, founded by Jay Z and Dame Dash as a means of communicating both their clothing and their audio product to the masses, provided a platform for both media and business figures to launch largely successful careers, and Dame is insinuating that Kanye may have forgotten that.
Kareem “Biggs” Burke, one of the most instrumental members of the building of the Roc-A-Fella empire during its inception in 1995, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for conspiring to move very large amounts of marijuana in 2012, and Dame says Kanye hasn’t reached back and attempted to contact Burke to offer support in an imaginably trying time. Below is an excerpt from his interview on Shade 45.
I’m a little tight with Kanye because he hasn’t reached out to Biggs. I don’t like that s**t. So, Kanye, holla at me. I don’t like that s**t… Biggs was the one that was like, ‘Yo, Dame. Pay attention to what Kanye’s doing. Make sure you send him that music.’ No one’s reaching back. Certain n***as have, that’s why I’m not calling everybody out, but Kanye hasn’t. And he hasn’t checked on his kids. He hasn’t checked on his family. No trial. And the s**t I’m hearing him complain about is irrelevant based on the fact that he doesn’t look back to the people that helped him. So period, until he holla at me – we gotta have a conversation. Period.
