He was bad cop to Jay's good, and people in the music business seem to have long memories about shit like that, and in his case, almost seem to relish his fall from grace.

Now, if Dame had a sure fire star in his pocket, labels would fuck with him, but he doesn't (none of those guys you listed are), so they don't.

I also don't buy, for one second, his latest movement. His whole "I'm just about music, I don't care about money" steez. Nope, not falling for that okey dokey.

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OL' DIRTY BASTARD on himself:
"I may curse, I may have a bad mouth, whatever whatever. I'm not that bad, yaknow'mean. Bad to y'all, I dunno how y'all... I don't give a fuck. Um, I'm a good person at heart, for real and shit.