They met when she was working as an intern at Rocawear. In 2005, Dash married fashion designer Rachel Roy, whom he had dated prior to his relationship with Aaliyah. Though they were not formally engaged, in interviews given after Aaliyah's death, Dash stated that the couple had planned to marry. Personal lifeĭash met R&B singer Aaliyah in New York City in the summer of 2000 through his accountant, and dated her until her death on August 25, 2001, in a plane crash in The Bahamas. ĭash founded DD172, a media collective which encompasses: America Nu, a magazine VNGRD79, a web design firm BluRoc Records, a record label division. In April 2014, it was announced that Dash is involved with Blind Debit, a fingerprint payment application being developed by Dez White. Then, in late 2005, Jay-Z bought Dash out of his stake in Rocawear. The first was when Roc-A-Fella Records was purchased by Def Jam Recordings (which had previously only owned half of the company) in 2004, after which Jay-Z agreed to take a job as Def Jam's president. Their relationship soured as a result of two subsequent events. I thought I was going to die.' Careerĭash served as Jay-Z's manager and business partner at Roc-A-Fella Records, and in 1999, he organized a tour for Jay-Z which made $19 million. ' Magic Johnson had just been diagnosed with AIDS, so that’s what I thought I had. I went about a month or two just going to the bathroom non-stop and losing weight,' Dash recalled. The same year, Dash was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Dash 'learned to hustle', in his own words, from the example of his mother, who died of an asthma attack when he was 15. Born in New York City, Dash swept the floors of a local barbershop and sold newspapers in order to buy sneakers and shirts as a teenager.

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