Damon Dash: "I Didn't Want To Be Looked At For Pouring Champagne & Yelling" (EXCLUSIVE)

Former CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records, certified music mogul, dope business man and art connoisseur Damon Dash hasn't been in the spotlight poppin' bottles like he used to, but don't sleep on this business genius, because he's been plenty busy. 

GlobalGrind caught up with Damon as he was headed to the beach in Long Island, NY. GlobalGrind was wondering what the vocal, in your face, fast-talking hustler known as Damon Dash has been up to since he removed himself from the scrutiny of the public eye. 

When we spoke to Damon, he dished about his website DD174NewYork.com, his new artist McKenzie Eddy, his personal evolution and the excitement of working on new projects. 

Check out the exclusive interview below!

GlobalGrind: What have you been up to lately?

Damon Dash: If you guys go on DD172newyork.com it kind of can show you all things, the weird planned stuff I’ve been doing, but you know I’ve just been doing the art gallery and making music, aggregating content and making little movies, curating art and just kind of being artistic.

We're interviewing your artist McKenzie Eddy. How did you come across her?

McKenzie actually came up to be Citizen Cope’s assistant and I was training her for Citizen Cope and Alice Smith. I had noticed that she had a lot of talent other than just being an assistant on an administrative level. So she kind of went up in the ranks, in my infrastructure pretty fast. Initially, she expressed her love for music and I didn’t really realize she was a singer and I was like ‘put together a band’ and start doing shows and I’ll support it. She did just that and from that we got the rock division under DD172, the music division and she became the president of it and she A&R’ed projects like BlakRoc. She’s doing it along with Raquel Horn who’s like her best friend and went to college with her. They were the ones who put me with the Black Keys and help me put together that project BlakRoc. Actually before that, they helped me help out Jim Jones for the “Pray for Rain” album and help me produce the “Pray for Rain play” with Jim Jones.