Dame Dash recently spoke about his break from Jay-Z, saying he attributes it to the latter’s decision to collaborate with R. Kelly.

Speaking in an interview with ‘The Art of Dialogue,’ the rap mogul says he walked away from Roc-A-Fella Records after Jay-Z began working with R. Kelly. R. Kelly married Dame Dash’s ex-girlfriend Aaliyah when she was just 15 years old, creating a minor controversy at the time.

“The fact that Jay was fucking with him is what used to blow my mind more than anything,” Dame Dash says in the interview. “I don’t know why he wanted to fuck with this guy so much. Like why? I’ve never understood it.”

Dame Dash says the collaboration with R. Kelly was something he confronted Jay-Z over at the time. “Everybody knew R. Kelly married Aaliyah at 15. Everybody knew that. So was the conversation like, ‘yo, how you gonna go and do something with this dude?’ hell yeah that conversation was had!”

“You think I’m soft? I was like ‘yo how you gonna do a project with a n-gga that raped my motherfucking girl?’ We had the conversation. Would you still fuck with a n-gga that fucked with someone that raped your girl? So why would anyone expect me to?”

“There’s a lot of other shit but that alone was the nail in the coffin for me. I was outta there, I was gone. I knew that shit was gonna blow up. I wanted no part of that shit. I was so done with him for that.”

When the host asks Dame Dash how Jay-Z responded to having that conversation, Dash replies, “You know how he is. He was like, ‘yo I ain’t have nothing to do with that.’ What I would love is for someone to ask him, ‘why would you still do a project with that man knowing that he raped Aaliyah?’”

“That right there was a bridge burned. […] I left Roc-A-Fella. It wasn’t that I got kicked out of Roc-A-Fella; I left Roc-A-Fella. I was done. I said ‘fuck all the money, fuck all this shit. I’m out.’ I was left no choice.”

Dame Dash had been looking to sell his share in Jay-Z’s album Reasonable Doubt for several years. It recently sold at auction for just $1 million, but Dame Dash won’t see any of the proceeds. The sale of his share of the album will satisfy some of his $8.7 million in back taxes, an $800,000 lawsuit settlement with Josh Webber and $145,000 in unpaid child support. The state of New York purchased Dame Dash’s share of the album and is expected to flip it to pay off his tax debt.

Meanwhile, Jay-Z is busy fighting off allegations that he raped a 13-year-old at one of Diddy’s parties. Jay-Z has adamantly defended himself against the allegations after the civil lawsuit was amended to name him in the alleged encounter at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.