A biography for Damon Dashhasn’t been written yet.
“Just cause you don't agree with a man, 'cause you're black, don't mean you gotta fight, argue. You just have a different perspective.”
“I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.”
“There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.”
“When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.”
“Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it's not going to be for everybody.”
“My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.”
“The reason why Roc-A-Fella crossed and became so essential to pop culture is that we were probably the most authentic people that were also so sophisticated.”
“If I can't do things to the fullest, I don't want to do it.”
“There's certain lines you just don't cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.”
“I believe in therapy, and I believe an objective opinion sometimes helps you be a better person.”
“God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.”
“A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.”
“I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?”
“People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.”
“Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it's funny. Let's make some money from it. Just don't take it so serious, man.”
“I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.”
“I monetized my life so I never do anything that I don't like or that I'm not participating in 100 percent.”
“I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.”
“I love music, but the people in the music don't wanna work.”
“I think I'm extraordinarily motivated.”