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Dame Dash sorry for behaving badly in Big Pimpin vid
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 29 August 2014
Hi. You know in Jay-Z’s ‘Big Pimpin’ video circa 2000, right, when hip hop kingpin Dame Dash spills his champagne (deliberately) all over some models? Well, a now older and more enlightened Dash has since realised that, not only was his spilling the champagne on the models a pretty careless thing to do financially, it was also disrespectful and sexist.
And that epiphany only took, oh, NEARLY FOURTEEN YEARS to arrive in Dame’s mind. Still, it did eventually, which I think we can all agree calls for a toast.
Contemplating it all, as one does, to Hip Hop Motivation lately, the one-time Roc-A-Fella boss said: “There’s things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, ‘Damn, I was bugging’. Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don’t even know that guy. If my son even did that I would be appalled”.
Apologising straight to the models, he added: “I’m sorry to all the girls that I poured champagne [on]. I’m not gonna say… because it was Champagne Dame, but I’m not gonna say that excuses it, but I do apologise. I really do. I wouldn’t do that now”.
So that’s all quite nice. I think the girls will really appreciate it.
