(GEMS RADIO)—Dame Dash is opening up about his relationship with Aaliyah.
Dash brought Aaliyah out on a date while Hov was interested in her as well.
“I just threw my A-game and I guess Jay was trying to get at her as well and I didn’t know,” he explained. “Then it got brought up and I was like, ‘F*ck both of y’all.’ It never worked out for them and we were both trying to get at her. I eased up and then we ran into each other.”
“Everybody was getting at Aaliyah, bro. She’ll go to dinner with a n-gga but she wasn’t just gonna be smashing. So that was like the big deal — who could get with Aaliyah.”
“He was sending flowers and doing all that sh*t — he was courting her,” Dame added. “So we were both going hard and we ended up in the same house Fourth of July. It was like one day it might lean toward him, then it would lean toward me.”
“I was just on fire that week. Everything I was saying was funny. I remember coming down after it happened and he was like, ‘You know this gonna be hard for me.’ His friends were laughing at him and sh*t.”
Dame and the late great Aaliyah started dating in 2000 up til the fatal plane crash that took her life in 2001. “I was reflecting [that] there hasn’t been one day since she’s passed, not one in the 20 years, that I haven’t either heard her name, heard her record, or seen a picture of her,” he told ET. “Every single day she’s present in my life and I feel lucky for that.”