Dame Dash has high hopes that a judge will allow him to reduce his child support payments after revealing his 2022 income. According to TMZ, the Roc-A-Fella co-founder filed documents in his custody case with his ex-wife, Rachel Roy, who he shares a daughter with, claiming that he can’t afford the current amount. He revealed that right now, he could only afford to cough up $428 monthly. Ultimately, it boils down to his annual income, which he says isn’t as high as he’d hoped for it to be.
Although we know Dame Dash to be a hustler, he explained that he’s hardly generating income. He explained that it’s largely because he’s embarked on several business ventures over the past few years, though they haven’t necessarily panned out in the way that he’d hoped. At one point, he revealed his annual income in 2022 was just a little over $5,000. In fact, he said that he didn’t make any more than $5,140 that year. Dame Dash explained that he was hit by the pandemic and hardly recovered since then.
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$428 is a significant change from the $3000 he’s currently paying Rachel Roy. However, she isn’t necessarily buying his argument. In response to his court filing, Roy explained that he still has a stake in Roc-A-Fella Records, which should continue to provide him with a solid income. Meanwhile, she added that he has other businesses that he’s yet to disclose to the public. So far, a judge has yet to make a ruling on Dame’s request or Roy’s response. We’ll keep you posted on anymore updates.
Interestingly enough, the topic of his ownership in Roc-A-Fella surfaced just weeks before. During an interview with The GAUDS Show, Dash said that he’s taking back Roc-A-Fella. “Roc-A-Fella never dies. It’s not dead; I just fuckin’ took a vacation. I’m the CEO of Roc-A-Fella Inc. and JAY-Z knows it, and so does Biggs. Not Roc-A-Fella LLC — we sold that; Roc-A-Fella Inc. — I’m still the CEO,” he said. His comments came a few years after his alleged attempt to sell his stake in Roc-A-Fella and Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt album as an NFT.
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