Damon Dash: From pretentious Hip Hop big shot to prententious indie hippie?

Damon Dash is over the world we have all gotten used to seeing him in. He says we can keep that world he doesn't want it that's why he left. You know the world where he used to dance on yachts in videos with champagne in both hands being chauffeured in fancy cars, popping tags etc. The once mighty hip hop mogul in an interview/profile with The New York Observer" says that wasn't the real him we used to see back then. What is the real him is a "Pretentious Hippie". Since his very public falling out with his then partner and best friend Jay Z, he has been red flagged by the music industry and most of the businesses he had his hands in, no longer exists. Dash now moves in a new circle of Manhattan hipsters and art lovers as he rebuilds the Damon Dash brand via a new business venture called DD172. The company is essentially an umbrella organization housing a number of different projects, among them Creative Control, an online-content-production business; America Knew, a forthcoming culture magazine; and VNGRD79, the Web-design business. Dash also released the very low key album titled BlakRoc (notice he is still stuck on the whole "ROC" thing), a collaboration between indie band the Black Keys and various hip-hop eminences, including Mos Def, Ludacris and Wu Tang Clan’s RZA that came out this past September. He doesn't say he is broke but he doesn't say he is living the life he once lived in the old world he now shuns. He says everything we've read in the papers about his financial situation is almost all true. But all in all, Dash seems to be cool with the fact that he shut himself out of the world he once shined in and now has to create a new one.