BET's Ultimate Hustler with Damon Dash

they got a message board and clips of the show on www.ultimatehustler.tv

i smell trouble

well my ment's is dowg da show i like it all ready cause im learnin afew but yo where's jay? dash shoot me a deal and i'll show you a husler

so Jay choses to buy roc from a "broke"(from rumors all over) Dame Dash in the final moments before the show airs.

smells fishy, but at the same time smart as hell for all parties involved. if the clohing line flops, Dash(n partners) win
if the clothing line continues to sell, again Both parties win cause Dame still owns a % of some of those lines under ROC a Wear label.
smart smart smart...
I'ma start hustling too.
:)

I'm wondering where in the hell they got these clowns from that's on this show? I mean you would think they would be able to come up with some better contestants than that. What about how Dame got rid of the niggas quick. And please don't tell me they're all competing for a DD chain! I saw a chain on Dame's neck last night and he was pulling it like this was the chain that everyone was trying to win. Ummm, who in the hell wants a chain that says DD on it? I mean unless those are their initials it would kind of be purposeless. I was thinking a chain with a piece that said Ultimate Hustla would have been more appropriate and then damn, that's all you get is a chain? Man, what is going on in the world today?

i feel haterade what tha hell is goin on?????????????? they gettin put threw hell 4 a chain? then tha pep on tha show seem like they let tha 1st ones in line get in instead of really lookin 4 tha real ones! but i can say my girl is seven she keeps it real then tha dark boy i dont know his name but he tha darkess one!they seem to be tha only real ones! but tha show is not what its hyped up to be!

From what I've been reading so far, there are alot of mix reviews on the show. All in all the show is great, even though it gives you the format of the "Apprentice", we need a show like that out here. To just clear the air it is not all about a damn chain, its part of it but not all. This is a platform to showcase your talent as far as combining street knowledge, with business savvy. This opportunity is to help you build on contacts and networking while rubbing the right shoulders to one day to bring out your dream as an ultimate hustler or CEO of a major company or project. Getting it out there to the masses and always being an innovator in whatever you do. I give it 3 stars and a half. Good television.

Dame is the new don king without the hair,money,vocabulary or murdr rap.....

To haterade and tee,this is what i heard that they are winning:The chain,The chance to work with him,A new bmw or i think it might be a diffrent car but a new car lets put it like that and some other lil stuff. I watched a lil bit of the show last night it wasnt interesting i turned if everybody feels the way i feel it wont last long.

The show was hot! Big up to Dame for a helluva concept! It's the apprentice with folks living at the Da Band's crib in New York, brilliant! Fighting will soon happen, arguments, all great for television. And for all of ya'll not hip to the prize, you receive an opportunity to work with Dame and his entities, not a silly little chain...

That shit is BUNK as hell, I mean it's cool for the "comedy value" but just because you complete a gang'a challenges, that doesn't make you "the ultimate hustler" lol, wtf?

But ol' boy that got hella drunk was funny. How you gon' tell this nigga Dame you wanna "Bring the west back"?? you fucked up right there homie! this nigga dont give a shit about the west. but he killed it when he got super lushed out on that drank! & I wish a nigga would say "you my nigga" in front of some whites, I'll pop that damn yapper so quick!

anyway, I'll be watching to see all the funny shit that goes down, I think next week ol' boy is gonna tell Swizz his beat is wack or some shit,lol.

yall is smokin crack up in here....dat show is the worst show I have ever seen....I mean does dame really think he is so respected in teh business that people will buy into this show..and what the hell is being in a boxing match got to do with business sense..have u heard of law suit if someone gets hurt from this...why expose ur self to it?? and the reasons he gave for kicking people off is so lame..it reminds me of that show about how to be a player...and missy elliot's show..all garbage...

man..they need oprah up in here with a chance to be her intern or something..why r black folks trying to learn how to hustle..why not learn how to get an education...that's what they need to learn and be taught...

We've seen ALOT worst. Dame got the whole demographic, that's supposed to be watching the show, on LOCK. I ain't even see the first episode but the whole block was talking about it that night. I woke up hearing about it on the radio and drove to work while Wendy went on about it for a good 15 minutes (hmmm... maybe thats why in the premire episode there was a picture of her on a magazine-- tricky tricky.) Even if they do compete for a chain (which im sure they dont)... YOU prolly would have never have been able to afford that chain. Not that gliss is so serious that I would ever rock another grown man's initials around my neck, however, keep it in the tuck as a trophy. Not to mention the media attention and connections one would get from winning. The real winner here is Donald Trump. Let us not forget that before the Apprentice, nobody sat at a round table in suits and got fired on television. Let Dame do his thing and introduce the hood to something white collar, or about as white collar as BET can get without looking fake... i.e. them bum ass grown and sexy BET commercials that came out of nowhere. Hell even if i just won a chain, the true Ultimate Hustler would appear at a couple of clubs, buddy it up with some industry cats, give out the "new artist of the year" award or something, host Rap city the basment and Hustle my way up there people! Let's look at our manuals.

All of these "Make It To The Business" ordeals is boring. The Apprentice was about some real shit. Making The Band has to be the funniest Business Reality shows that ever came on cable television. I haven't even watched the ultimate hustler, I'm too busy getting money instead of watching someone else making money on television.

I actually like the show. Some of the contestants were a little ignorant, like Seven. This chick think she knows everything and really don't know shit. She likes running her mouth. But on the real, I liked it and I thought that I wouldn't. That drunk nigga in the club had me rollin!

I have never seen a person so ARROGANT before.."Oh Yeah"...Him & Puffy.
My thing is...Why do this "so called" brothers get money, then Swear they are the shit...like everyone suppose to bow down and kiss their ass.

The show is WEAK, I wont be watching this show to make this fool rich, while he just degrades people..trying to make himself feel like the MAN.

Also this show seems like a bragging party of what he has.

Correction: Dame is like Don King Without the hair, money,murder rap, stable of talent and vacabulary......

The show was wack, he kicked my hommie sharp j off on some dumb shit, them other niggas was hating on him because he was the most rugged one on the show, fuck Dame and his punk ass show.

Here's a question, if all these contestants call themselves "HUSTLERS", then why in the hell they are on televison, when you are a hustler, you don't have time for clubs and television time, you HUSTLE. Ain't none of these peeps is serious Hustlers, I think it's just 15 minutes of fame and buy my product.

i watched 6 min of the show yesterday. i had to turn it when dame plugged "winky wright". "winky wright" i missed the connection even though they cut to "boxing scenes" it just seemed real cheezy.

I haven't actually watched the show, but I've heard mixed reviews. We should take a different approach to making our money. A true hustler learns the game on all levels; street, corporate, education, politics and common sense and leverage each aspect in various situations. A true hustler knows how to embrace the diversity of having street, education, class and style. In stead of making jewls the prize or a subset of the winnings, why not gift the winner/s some stock, land or real estate which will increase over time. You talk about legacy wealth, that's the things that the "real world" doesn't want "us" to become smart about and start to capitalize on and take "market shares". Blacks are the biggest comsumers and the black dollar is the most powerful dollar but the ironic thing about that stat is that blacks are amongst the most poverished and uneducated in the world. I think I'm one of the best hustlers because I can play "their" game on all levels. Let's teach our people about staying power that last generations and provide a platform to build upon for the ones that follow in our footsteps. Untrap ourselves!

Respectfully

Sanquetta Taylor
www.sanquettadesigns.com

Continue the show Dame, the concept and reality of the show is on key, you being arrogant, or cocky is a definement of who you are... these fools here are the very same ones who can't find anything that impresses them is because they're stuck in a state of mind knowing that their's others out there who's actually doing something un-other then they get jealous.... Dame Dash too me is real... when he feels you are garbage instead of him beating around the bush like some scary white boi he'll tell you.. either respect it or hate it.... rite now you guys are just hating.... the show is goin too be a success you people are only 15 vs millions who find the show appealing, how do i know this.... the streets, my hip hop community is all tuned in... and so far yahoo chat and my RapMusic.Com board all who are tuned in saw the first episode and anticipates the next.... so keep hatin you guys have to be middle aged people complaining about the show anyways.... go do what is appealing too you if you think the show sucks.

These domb mutherfuckers can't win for shit

"Poppin Tags", "Blinking Dolla Signs", "Young Fly Fresh To Def". That the mottos from Dame Dash, how are you going to maintain wealth if you have that mentality, the reason why niggas get soo rich and then one minute go broke. Black people have to understand that money is not REAL. When they figure that age old question out, they will become wealthy.

I saw tha show last weekend and it wuz aiight. Tha one girl who kept talkin and wuz always real hyped up...........she fakin it. It looks like she jus want sum airtime cuz she is jus waay too dramatic. And how Dame Dash said his BS level is real high. Well so is mine and I think he's a bunch of bullshit. And wat tha fuck is up wit tha cast. Dont nan one of dem look like any type of a hustla. Mah five year old brotha got mo game den them.

Ya'll are some HATERS! the show was straight entertainment. i watched it just to see what they hype was about thinking it would be wack cuz of BET but it was so much better than i thought. I will be watching next week and so will everyone else i know.

everybody got shit to say about Dame like any of yall have done anything that amounted to anything. shut the fuck up. it was the first episode.

That show is so mutha fucking stupid. He aint no real hustla. Hustaling is being on the street making money moving keys suppling for yo family thats a real hustla.

i think the show is straight. its just them wack ass people on the show. everybody knows Damon Dash is a arrogant muthafucka just by lookin at tha shit he put out wit Jay-z. that loud mouth wanna be seen broad that stay havin sdhyte to say need to be put in her place. Dame let that ho what her place is. he pull her ho card everytime she got somethin out of the line to say. but this show is going to be a reality check for these wack ass people. all them on the show think they got what it takes to be a hustler and Dame let them know that the shyte they claimin to be ain't what they expected. he gone continue to let they lame ass now it's not easy being a hustla doing what a hustler does.a hustla is not just selling drugs or gettin money off the street its actually getting money the best way you kow how. even if you gotta struggle. i look at hustlin just makin some muthafuckin money off shyte that people want that they probably won't use for the rest of their life.

LAME LASH AINT A HUSTLA; HE IS A LUCKY MOFO. LUCKY THAT JAY-Z WAS HIS MEAL TICKET. 99% OF THE HIP HOP WORLD DONT GIVE A FAT RATS AZZ ABOUT DAME "EDNA" DASH.

LAME DASH, IF IT WASNT FOE JAY-Z, NOBODY WOULD KNOW YA NAME. LAME DASH'S TALENT IS PROFITING OFF THE TALENT OF OTHERS -- WHICH IS A HUSTLE.

BUT, ITZ ONE THAT IS BOUND TO FAIL IN THE END. AZ SOON AS JAY'S CONTRACT WAZ UP, HE BLEW AWAY FROM FAME STASH (LAME DASH)LIKE A SPITBALL OUT A STRAW. DONT LET THAT CLOWN, BIG BONK'S ADVENTURE HEAD LAME LASH MAKE MONEY OFF YOUR TALENT. HAHAHAHHAHAHA

Sanquetta Taylor speakin real talk to yall, people should listen to that

i think the show was cool. It was kinda confusing and Dame was up in that shit way to much. It looks like a big commerical for him. But yeah some of them hustlers look fake as shit, but we'll see as time goes on. I'm looking forward to seeing the next episode cause it looks like people is tripping the fuck out at the studios.
But I check up on some of the hustlers
and some of them look for real, check them out.
I found a website for
Shola, the chick from Oakland
www.sholajoy.com
Loudmouth Seven
www.sinful7.com
Dashawn, the Real Hip Hop dude
www.dashawntaylor.com

THE SHOW WAS SOOO STUPID. DAME IS JUS LOOKIN FOR ANOTHER WAY TO MAKE ANOTHER DOLLAR.HE AINT NO NOTHIN ABOUT WHAT A REAL HUSTLA IS.

the show was cool i dig what your doing dam no one deserves to get paid easy i been trying for years and still never had the chance all i can say is yall are doing so well with and without each other i cant stand to see homeboys trip if i was in your shoes with the paper you niggas got i wouldn't ever have problems with my homeboy i always wished to be a millionaire but i know there is a way of being true to the game i hope you get this and you and your boys stay together and get paid together and if yall do give me a chance to get some real papper peace.

Exploitation of directionless African American youth. Damon should be ashamed. He's now a victum of the reality rape.

Solcline

I couldn't have said it better Sanquetta. Hustling isn't just a drug thing or on the corner thing. A true hustler adapts to any environment and situation and produce gain out of it. If someone was to take some of you all out of your environment it would be like a fish out of water. You would perish from the lack of knowledge and tolerance of one another. That's what alot of you all need to learn. You on the block all day up north or sittin at the trap down south and if your ass was to go to jail right now 3/4 of y'all "hustlas" wouldn't have shit to show for. Your family couldn't live off your earnings. So how does that make you a hustla. Damon can be fake, wanksta, weak or whatever you want to call it, but if something ever happened to him, his family wouldn't have to ask for shit. He paid his dues. For every keystroke on this damn blog the nigga is steadily making money so let's be serious. You guys need to go back to Sanquetta Taylor blog and take heed to the words that she's saying and live by them.

ARE Y'ALL IGNORANT OR ARE YOU JUST STUPID PEOPLE, FIRST OF ALL DAME IS JAY'S MANAGER SO HE WAS GOING TO PROFIT OFF JAY ANYWAY. SECOND OF ALL DAME WAS A MANAGER BEFORE JAY'S CAREER POPPED OFF. I THINK HIS SHOW BRINGS A LOT OF LIFE BACK TO BET. WHILE EVERYBODY'S HATING UMMM PLEASE LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT THE FACTS: THE FACT THAT DAME DASH NO MATTER HOW ARROGANT, HOW COCKY HE MAY BE IS WORTH 300 MILLION DOLLARS. NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS TO Y'ALL BUT TO ME THAT SAYS YOU'RE A DAMN GOOD HUSTLER AND BUSINESSMAN, AND SURELY YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS IF YOU SAY ALL THAT IS FROM ROCAFELLA, CAUSE MOST OF THAT IS FROM HIS OWN BUSINESS VENTURES SO STOP HATING TUNE IN AND Y'ALL MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING. WE NEVER GONNA COME-UP IF WE DON'T SUPORT OUR OWN, ESPECIALLY SOMEBODY WHO IS ALREADY SUCCESSFUL. HOLLA BACK.

I agree with Sanquetta and Maliki, yeah Dame is Arogant but he pais his dues. This has nothing to do with his relationship to Jay Z or whatever. A message should be learned that yes, you can be the next Dame or Puff or Jay Z if you learn how to capaitalize on your own talents and aspirations.
Why are we always crabs in the barrell? Ready to tear down eaach other instead of supporting each other?
Now as far as television shows go- yes the production of the show could use some work. Let's STFM-STAY TOONED IN FOR MORE- It's just the first show!

I love watching the show.

There are no true hustlers on the show. What Dame need is an older female like me that have to hustle each and every day so that my family can EAT. I definately need an opportunity to be on the show to show him how to triple the funds he may have and in the process make me some.

PEACE
Monica

Alright Monica. you don't need Dame to get money, you just need yourself.

Who was that N.O. cat that got kicked off for gambling his watch saying that he was doing it for the team. What a stupid risk for him to do something like that. There is a difference between putting it on the line and just being plain retarded. If he wanted to make a risk, take that watch to the jewlery shop and get it appraised yo. Ya let Swizz hustle you out of everything, trying to hustle a hustler. And the other cat that was being critical about graph's music, it's okay to suggest an alternative, but being an asshole and not been in the business or made a hit record will not make your ideas come to life.

PEACE

I SAW THE SHOW LAST NIGHT OR THE 2ND TIME... I THINK THE SHOW IS HOT.... I LIKE 7.. SHE LIL LOUD BUT SHE REAL.... I LOVE RAY.. HE'S SUCH A REAL NI99A... ( AND YES THAT GRAFH SONG WAS WACK !!).. THE DUDE SHARP WAS COOL.. AND D.T. SEEM LIKE A REAL NI99A TOO.. OTHER THAN THAT THE REST OF THE CAST IS CLOWNS.............

First of all, what amazes me is how EASY it is for some of you to lash out at someone else and be so critical of something that you have absolutely no knowledge about! Its really easy to say what you would have done had you been a member of the cast of this show or any other because YOU HAVE NOT BEEN (and apparently nor will any of you EVER be) a cast-member of this show or any other. Be it for lack of talent, skill, nerve, or interest the fools way out is to blatantly state what he or she would have done differently had he or she been given the opportunity; knowing that they will never have the opportunity to be proven right (or wrong). For those that have so earnestly expressed dislike for the show, its cast members or Dame, tune the eff out and save yourself the anguish. For real, are your lives so null and void that all you can do is sit around and bash something that you took no part in? That is some for real corny-dude sh*t, get over yourselves. Then too, consider the definition of a hustler (it probably varies depending on who is being asked) then consider the kind of hustles that Dame or any of his counterparts have excelled in: we arent talking about pushing weight or standing on the street corner. Pick up a magazine or a paper and read about how Dame (along with other trailblazers in the world of hiphop) have managed to 'hustle' corporate america. Getting in where they fit and making a place for themselves where they didnt (then ask yourselves: what the eff have I done to make myself an expert on any of this: the answer more often than not will probably be- not a damn). The reality of it is that opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one and all of you a**holes seem be no exception. Stop hating and do something with yourselves cause you know what, some of the contestants might be clowns and Dame might be an ass, but for real, for real: so are those of you who really feel like your imbecilic ideologies hold any real weight or bearing in any world other than your own little pathetic ones. I mean damn everybody feels a way about this, but at least yall feel something...

this show is interesting, and everyone seems to be qualified to be on the show, they're even casting for a second season. few of the cats on there already have a name for themselves, another one of the dudes on the show grew up in Amherst, the dude Alphonzo.

ol' boy went to NY and hit the grind hard, i came across his site here:
www.newmerika.com

some pretty dope shit, actually

I kind of agreed with ol dude who was somewhat being "rude" to the producers. He could have said it in a better way but just because he isn't commercial doesn't mean he doesn't know what he is talking about. I feel like with Dame and the rest of the other guys that wasn't right for them to be like well you aren't in my position so you don't know what the hell you are doing. Ex. Ciara or Ashanti or Teairra Mari made it so does that mean they are the best at what they do. Can they tell another female who probably has ten times the talent as them well you aren't making hit records so you don't know how to sing. I'm from down south don't get it twisted but because Mike Jones made it does that mean that he can tell an underground rapper, oh you don't know how to rap because your album is platinum like mines. Or even with the Graph guy as a rapper or lyricist would you let him tell you I work with Dame and you don't so I'm better than you. THis business is based on opportunities. Because someone got their foot in the door before the next man doesn't mean they are better than that person. I know lots of guys who own studios and have been producing music for 10, 20, 30 years +. Because they aren't Swiss or Kanye does that mean they don't know what they are doing?? Let's think this over. Ol Boy could have said it differently but he is a producer so it should have been respected. They did ask for the team's input.

Dame Dash is one talentless MF! He aint shit. His artists aint shit. I seen him on another show where he throws away every shirt he wears! When his monkey ass goes broke, he'll never come up again 'cause he aint no real hustla. I hope you read this shit Dame. Look at all the comments denouncing your stupid ass antics. Sit your corny ass down and enjoy the money you "hustled" from Jay Z and Def Jam you sorry, ridiculous. I can't stand that arrogant MF! That's why I bootlegged Beanie's album you bitch!

haterslayer, I understand your aspect on the majority of this blog. There are too many people being critical and not actually being there. Everyone is entitled to their opinions at the same time, you use a hustler's ambition but you have the ambition but no action because you would not spent any time reviewing everyone's comments instead of going out there making it. I just skim and say on the subject, i don't make any particular targets unless that person is sub-human igronant or for your example has understanding potential.

All of yall punks don't have anything better to do than sit around broke as hell putting people down because they are making money and looking good doing. They didn't sit around in their mother's house on her internet like some bum ass nigga's to take the time out of their busy day to gossisp about someone famous who could care less about what you fagged ass nigga's have to say. Anyway what type of nigga's,real nigga gossisp.

Yall making us look real stupid right now. If you don't like the show turn the channel. You think heLs arrogant and shit but damn, let us have a good show. Did yall do the for top model? That show aint all that so yall don't watch it. Hate on the man all you want, but atleast black folks have some programming shit. Who cares about his artist (Grafh is hot), who care is he's broke (23.3 million from selling his share), who care if he's arrogant (yall don't say shit about kanye). Let him do him and one your self.

White people don't do shit like this.

hey the show is crazy and the cast is cool --i like the quiet one ashley

This show sucks. I don't get the concept, the people who are on this show are lame, and Dame is just mad at Jay success, its just so obvious.