{"id":480053,"date":"2026-06-03T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480053\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:15:09","slug":"dame-dash-says-jay-zs-roots-picnic-freestyle-was-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480053\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Dash Says Jay-Z&#8217;s Roots Picnic Freestyle Was &#8216;Terrible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">The music executive said Jay-Z must have gone \u201cbroke\u201d because he hasn\u2019t \u201csaid anything [in] 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cIt was whack. It was like a joke but it was a old joke. He used my lyrics,\u201d Dame said, adding that he wanted to see a \u201cclever\u201d version of Jay-Z instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">In the freestyle, Hov joked about Dame\u2019s dental implants \u201ctumbling\u201d out of his mouth, referencing a <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/backwoodsaltar\/dame-dash-teeth-grills-fall-out-50-cent\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2024 video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cAnd I felt bad because I was like, it must be embarrassing for him to now have to be on that stage, not the same version of himself, and still have to work at that age \u2018cause he has to,\u201d Dame continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">He also said the reason Jay-Z rapped at all was because of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cWe don&#8217;t have direct conversation, but I do feel like if I&#8217;m not around, he&#8217;s not relevant. I feel like that&#8217;s the reason why they have to bring my name up all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought that rap was bad. It was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">In his response, Dame jokingly claimed that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t hear the lyrics\u201d because Jay\u2019s \u201chairstyle was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cI was like, \u2018Why would they let him come outside like that?\u2019\u201d Dame said and later added, \u201cWhy do they keep putting you in these funny hairstyles?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Before debuting his \u2018fro at Roots Picnic, Jay-Z wore freeform dreadlocks, or what some would consider to be wicks, for nearly a decade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Dame recommended that his former friend rock a Caesar haircut beneath a New York Yankees baseball cap during his <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/jaelaniturnerwilliams\/jay-z-anniversary-concert-tickets-queue\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-night residency<\/a> at Yankee Stadium in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Elsewhere, Dame predicted that <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/drake\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drake<\/a>, who was also purportedly <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/treyalston\/jay-z-diss-drake-kanye\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dissed<\/a> in Jay-Z\u2019s freestyle, could \u201cbeat\u201d the <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/tracewilliamcowen\/jay-z-cant-listen-444-album\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4:44<\/a> artist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The music executive said Jay-Z must have gone \u201cbroke\u201d because he hasn\u2019t \u201csaid anything [in] 20 years.\u201d \u201cIt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-480053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}