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Earlier we posted a snippet from a Jay-Z feature in Esquire that details President Obama asking Jay-Z about America. Later in the story, Dame Dash tells his side of the Roc-A-Fella break up. Curren$y is briefly mentioned as “one of Dash’s hot new things.” On a side note, it sounds as if the office described below is the set for Curren$y’s “Life Under The Scope” music video.

Inside a large and empty belly of a building in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York, Damon Dash roosts and inflates. These are his new offices and he’s barely moved in, but his aspirations seem to have leased this space forever. There is something of an art gallery on the first floor and a control center of video and audio on the second floor, with projection screens projecting budding talent on the blank walls before you. Lap-topping on a beanbag chair in one of Dash’s nuclei of work spaces is Curren$y, one of Dash’s hot new things, his wrist moored by a five-hundred-pound Tiret watch, one of Dash’s hot new accessories. Dash brands, too, but more brazenly. [Read the full story...]

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