Why Damon Dash hates Hype Williams

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Roc-a-Fella co-founder Damon Dash and Aaliyah had an in depth working relationship. In the course of the late Nineteen Nineties, Aaliyah was some of the outstanding R&B singers on the earth and alongside Timbaland, she created legendary tracks.

In the course of the late ’90s and early 2000s, celeb {couples} had been popping up left, proper and centre. From Nas and Kelis to Jay-Z and Beyoncé, many celeb relationships had been starting to type. Amongst them were Aaliyah and Damon Dash.

Though this may increasingly appear unrelated to the legendary director Hype Williams, when a 2001 video shoot led to the vocalist’s demise, Dash needed to know what triggered the incident. Nonetheless, after investigations, Williams appeared to make many errors that culminated within the singer’s early demise.

In 2001, the ‘More Than A Woman’ vocalist perished following a airplane crash within the Bahamas. Nonetheless, Dash as soon as revealed that her demise was wholly avoidable and shockingly blamed her passing on the well-known music video director.

Following the video shoot for her 2001 single ‘Rock The Boat, ‘Aaliyah’s Cessna 404, along with her baggage exceeding the airplane’s weight restrict, crashed and burned solely 200ft above the bottom. Nonetheless, Dash, in an interview with Leisure Weekly, alleged that the one cause the ‘Try Again’ singer needed to fly in a puny Cessna 404 was Hype Williams.

Dash accused Williams of flying to the US earlier than the vocalist within the sturdy Cessna 202 that was meant for her. Recalling what occurred, the entrepreneur unveiled, “When she actually saw the plane … she said ‘I don’t like this plane,’”

He continued, “I was like, ‘Well, don’t get on it.’ She was like, ‘Well, I got to because I got work to do.’ She got on the plane, and she always had a grave fear of planes in general, so she had to overcome a fear to get on that plane on the way there. But what I was really more tight about was that I had heard that Lenny Kravitz had offered her a jet and that Hype had taken the jet. So, that’s what really pissed me off about the situation when I heard about that. You can ask Hype about that.”

The Roc-A-Fella co-founder additionally advised Leisure Weekly that he had beforehand confronted Hype Williams in regards to the incident. Nonetheless, he didn’t disclose any data out of respect for Aaliyah’s household.

When requested why he wouldn’t elaborate on his change with Williams, Dash replied, “Because of my respect for Aaliyah and her family… Everyone’s respectful of her memory. No one really speaks on it. So, in respect for her memory, I don’t say a lot of things.”

Though Dash has by no means explicitly accused Hype Williams of killing Aaliyah and even by chance inflicting her demise, he has insinuated on quite a few events that, when one seems to be on the chain of occasions that led to the tragedy, Williams was an integral half.

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