Dame Dash Claims JAY-Z Was Bitter About Him Dating Aaliyah: ‘He Was Courting Her’

Dame Dash has opened up about JAY-Z‘s alleged bitterness toward him dating Aaliyah while Hov was also trying to court the late singer.

The Roc-A-Fella co-founder joined the That’s F***ed Up Podcast earlier this week where he reflected on meeting Aaliyah and going on to date Baby Girl while Jay was also interested.

“I just threw my A-game and I guess Jay was trying to get at her as well and I didn’t know,” he explained. “Then it got brought up and I was like, ‘Fuck both of y’all.’ It never worked out for them and we were both trying to get at her. I eased up and then we ran into each other.

“Everybody was getting at Aaliyah, bro. She’ll go to dinner with a n-gga but she wasn’t just gonna be smashing. So that was like the big deal — who could get with Aaliyah.”

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One of the co-hosts then interjected to ask Dame if Hov was “bitter” about him winning out with Aaliyah: “Obviously,” Dame replied. “Yeah, he felt a way.”

Dame Dash went on to detail how JAY-Z was also courting Aaliyah but it came to a head at a July 4 party in 2000 where all three were in attendance but Dame ended up hooking up with the “One In A Million” singer.

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“He was sending flowers and doing all that shit — he was courting her,” Dame added. “So we were both going hard and we ended up in the same house Fourth of July. It was like one day it might lean toward him, then it would lean toward me.

“I was just on fire that week. Everything I was saying was funny. I remember coming down after it happened and he was like, ‘You know this gonna be hard for me.’ His friends were laughing at him and shit.”

Dame and Aaliyah met through having the same accountant in 2000 and eventually started dating until her tragic death in August 2001 due to a plane crash in The Bahamas.

Dash reflected on the Princess of R&B’s death on the 20th anniversary of her passing in 2021.

“I was reflecting [that] there hasn’t been one day since she’s passed, not one in the 20 years, that I haven’t either heard her name, heard her record, or seen a picture of her,” he told ET. “Every single day she’s present in my life and I feel lucky for that.”