Dame Dash says his daughters’ fear of stereotypical Black men is ‘probably because of me’

During a candid podcast conversation, Dash connected his daughters’ dating preferences to their upbringing and his own past behavior.

Dame Dash is opening up about how his parenting style impacted his children. With his son Dusko, the 55-year-old explained to Sommer Hill of the “It’s Sommer Time” podcast how his 5-year-old is his “first child to love Black girls.” In the unfiltered conversation, the Harlem native continued to claim that none of his children, Damon “Boogie” Dash II (34), Ava Dash (26), Christian “Lucky” Dash (22), and Tallulah Ruth Dash (18), have interest in Black partners.

“It bothers me more with my daughters,” he shared. “Not that they don’t like them, I think their mother..How do I explain this? When you’re in a certain social class, sometimes you only have a stereotype of the people that you’re not in front of. For example, Raquel had never been around a Black man like me. She didn’t know they existed. The only version she knew existed were the ones in front of her, acting stereotypically,” he added, mentioning his current fiancée, Raquel “Rocky” Horn.

“A lot of times, my daughters are afraid of the quintessential, stereotypical version of what they perceive a Black man to be. Probably because of me.” He continued and affirmed that he felt responsible. “I mean, you know, I know who I was and they know, and their mother lets them know…  I only want my daughters to be with a Black man, but a Black boy is going to get hurt f—g with my daughter.”

Hill followed up with the question, “Would you be okay with them being with a man like you?”

Dash followed up by asking, “A man that makes their dreams come true?”

Once Hill informed him the question was up to his interpretation, the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder elaborated on his stance.

“Well, the difference there is they make their own dreams come true. So, it’s going to have to be quite a man. The father is the bar for the daughter. So like if I’m abusive to my daughters, they expect it. But I’m literally, and you could ask anybody that knows me around my daughters, I’m a slave. They get to tease me. I don’t hit back… I tell them, unless a man treats you as good as me or better, he’s not a man.”

The entire conversation, which lasts nearly an hour, delves more into fatherhood as well as Dash’s experience growing up in Harlem, losing his mother, his relationship with Aaliyah, his history with Jay-Z, and why his journey to independence in the music industry. Watch the episode below.