Let me just say this: I love to hate Damon Dash. Not “hate on”, but just hate. (OK, let me take that back. I loathe him. How’s that?) Not because of his money (whatever is left of it, D’OH!), but because of his arrogance. Also his characters in State Property (both sequels, oh my eyes! WHY?) really sings to me the kind of person he would be in real life. Bad acting included.

So why should this be a surprise that he is still moaning and b-tching about Jay-Z after they parted ways YEARS ago? And had the gall to drag Kanye West into his drama? You instigator you.  

Dash claims the simmering beef dates back to a 2003 Chicago concert, where the then-up-and-coming Kanye expected ruling Roc-A-Fella artist Jay to “knight” him by presenting him with a gleaming chain.

But, according to Dash, Jay didn’t want to fork over the chain.

“This n- [Kanye ] was like, ‘Wow. [Jay-Z] ain’t going to give me the chain,’” Dash alleges in December’s Complex magazine. “I had to take off my chain and give it to him, and I was heated. I had the real canary diamonds. That s- cost $40,000! I told Kanye, ‘Yo, you got to give that back when we get off this stage!’”

Dash contends that after Jay-Z violated the code of hip-hop chivalry, “Kanye hated Jay-Z.”

Despite Dash’s feud claim, Kanye and Jay have performed several times together since the supposed bling diss.

“They’re both on [Def Jam],” says a source. “They’re friends and always have been.”

Another hip-hop insider added, “No one has ever said that Kanye hated Jay. [West, Jay-Z and Dash] were all together at one point every single day. To say he hated him back then is silly.” (source)

I’m not going to question Damon Dash’s ”indian giver” tactics regarding his chain, but shouldn’t he focus on his money issues rather than open up old wounds? Jay-Z has moved on, so why can’t he? No one wants to hear old news from five years ago.