More on Dame's usage of Pause and how it's truly correlated to his lack of growth.....
If anyone has ever heard DJ Enuff & Jay-Z's Hovi Home mixtape with all those hot 97 freestyles.....there's also interviews. This tape came out in 2003 right before the black album. Anyways, during one of the interviews Jay slips up and says pause and then excuses himself and says "I don't play "pause" anymore"........That always stood out to me. Seems like that was around the time he truly started to grow out of the Rocafella situation. He had just came back from vacation in Europe with Beyonce....Even on the mixtape he says I'm giving everyone he has beef with until the end of the year to diss him and he'll respond and then I'm done. Just seemed like he outgrew all the "nikka shyt" that came with the rap business. Keep in mind Beans had also just had a case for shooting someone (after years and years of constantly getting in trouble)......Most people didn't realize it at the time but it was clear that Jay was just over it all.
That said, it's funny to hear Dame on the same shyt, saying pause all the time (in an era where most rational people are secure with their own sexuality and accepting of everyone elses), always talking about his OG's and what they taught him and how they should handle things, always talking about what a real man does........He's just a sad individual. A talented, hard working one who just couldn't seem to grow beyond the street/Harlem mentality. Jay had a vision for more.
For me it's getting harder and harder to listen to these Dame interviews. In addition to being flat out delusional, a liar, hypocrite and someone who constantly contradicts themselves, he still has a high school mentality of being "cool" and none of us give a shyt anymore.
It's also annoying to hear Dame constantly speak on how "if you're not putting up your own money you're not the boss"......it's just flat out wrong.
