Dame Sprint is opening up concerning the sale of his Roc-A-Fella shares, claiming no person was fascinated about shopping for his stake as a result of JAY-Z isn’t liked like different Hip-Hop icons. He additionally claimed that though Drake provided thousands and thousands at one level, he finally disappeared.
Final week, New York State purchased Dame Sprint’s one-third share of the legendary Roc-A-Fella Information, which incorporates rights to JAY-Z’s Cheap Doubt album, with a $1 million bid. The public sale was supposed to recoup Dame’s $8.7 million debt in again taxes and different monetary obligations.
On Monday (November 18), Dame addressed the sale in a video on his America Nu Community YouTube channel, expressing his frustrations on the lack of curiosity. The successful bid beat out presents of $250,000 and $223,000 from nameless bidders.
“What this actually taught me was, that on the earth, [JAY-Z] isn’t as large as he’s portrayed,” Dame Sprint asserted. “I believed that extra individuals could be fascinated about shopping for it due to the artwork worth of it. And that’s the one factor I used to be promoting.”
He continued, “Due to how everybody portrays that they love this dude, in the event that they actually liked him like that, I believed some collector just like the Wu-Tang factor,” he stated, referencing the sale of the enduring grop’s As soon as Upon a Time in Shaolin album.
“Wu-Tang is liked,” he added. “Folks actually worth them a sure means… There was no love.”
Dame Sprint continued, claiming that Drake positioned an enormous bid however backed out.
“I believed individuals actually liked [Jay-Z] far more than they did,” he added. “Folks didn’t present up. Drake did put in a bid for $6 million, however then he disappeared … I don’t know what occurred. However aside from that, nobody needed that s###. Interval.”
In September, Dame claimed Drake contacted him on social media to make a suggestion.
“I’m not fairly positive what occurred,” he defined. “However I believed that he had bought with Jay or one thing, however I don’t know.”
