Kendrick Lamar has been offered the chance to buy a stake in Roc-A-Fella Records by Dame Dash after an old tweet about JAY-Z and Nas resurfaced.
Back in June 2010, Kendrick wrote on X (then Twitter): “I’m sorry, Reasonable Doubt is better than Illmatic… #youcanunfollowmenow.”
The post gained the attention of Dame, who posted a screenshot of it on Instagram on Thursday (June 6) and wrote: “@kendricklamar my 3rd is for sale if you want to buy it. Any serious offers DM.”
Kendrick has yet to publicly respond.
Dash owns a third of Roc-A-Fella Records which he co-founded with JAY-Z and Kareem “Biggs” Burke in 1994.
The mogul, who has experienced financial issues in recent years, was recently blocked from selling his shares in the legendary record label.
Dame was initially ordered to sell his stake in the company by a judge after he allegedly refused to pay a $823,000 lawsuit settlement to movie producer Josh Weber that stemmed from the 2016 film Dear Frank.
Hov and Biggs then objected to the sale on the legal basis that the board of directors must first approve the deal.
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Dash later explained his version of events over the blocked sale, saying: “In 2021, I was trying to sell my shares at public auction. Jay and Biggs sued me — or had Roc-A-Fella Inc. sue me — and say I was trying to sell all the shares.
“I’m the CEO of Roc-A-Fella. What Jay did was pretend to be the CEO of Roc-A-Fella. He hired his lawyers on Roc-A-Fella Inc.’s behalf and sued me. Jay’s lawyers were being paid by me and the money generated from Roc-A-Fella Inc.”
It has also been alleged that Dash has no control over the sale of his shares, even though the record executive had said he was free to sell his stake to whoever he wanted.
Prior to making a public offer to Kendrick Lamar, the Harlem native teased selling his share of the label to former signee Cam’ron and Ma$e.
“I’m just celebrating the fact I can freely sell it and that I have the option to sell it to Cam and Ma$e,” he said on his America Nu Network in March.
“I’m not saying that I haven’t. I like to pass the torch. I like what they’ve done. They didn’t fold. They from Harlem, we all came up together and it would be fun to see them running Roc-A-Fella.”
