LINDA WILLIAMS:MY SON SHOULD NOT BE IN AN ADULT CLUB
[Damon Dash and Boogie at club Plumm on New Year's Eve.]
A child should not be in an adult club that serves alcohol. Did anyone even check my son’s ID? His father should stop trying to make a dollar off of him and get him back into high school.
Hip Hop mogul Damon Dash and his ex-girlfriend, Linda Williams, are in the news again. This time Linda is upset that her 17-year-old son Damon “Boogie” Jr. is deejaying in clubs. As told by the NyPost:
Boogie, who had lived with Dash in Manhattan since he was 8, moved to Long Island with his mother last summer, leaving the Upper West Side’s Dwight School to enroll in a school that fielded a football team. But last month, Boogie went back to live with Dash, and Williams now says his father “refuses to enroll him back in school.”
“Out of the blue, my son tells me he wants to live with his father,” Williams told Page Six. “He left here Dec. 2 and hasn’t been in school since.”
A source close to Dash assured us that Boogie will go back to school tomorrow now that the holiday break is over, and that the music impresario has been looking for a school for his son since he moved back in. The insider said, “A woman who had their son taken away years ago has no credibility. Damon was a single father, raising a boy on his own. Linda needs to leave him alone.” Williams had sole custody of her son until Boogie was handed over to Dash in 2002.
Williams originally contacted us last week in response to our report that Dash took their son to The Plumm nightclub to deejay a New Year’s Eve gig.
“A child should not be in an adult club that serves alcohol,” she fumed. “Did anyone even check my son’s ID? His father should stop trying to make a dollar off of him and get him back into high school.”
Williams took Dash to court on Dec. 18, charging educational neglect. The next court date is next week.
“I’m happy for my son that he is pursuing [deejaying] but not at the expense of school,” Williams said.
Both Dash and a lawyer for Dash Jr. had no comment.
He puled him out because he doesn’t have the money to pay anymore nothing wrong with public school as for the club thing I agree eh should be there on new years he was spraying champagne on the crowd. Get him in school and out of the club
I agree with mom here. Education first!
I dont condone it either…allowing his son to deejay in clubs but I know the were/are groups (i.e. Jackson 5) that got more exposure by performing in clubs and I know most of them were underaged.
The child shouldnt be in a adult club………..but she got to realize he is about to be 18. When he get 18 it ain’t nothing she can do.
I agree with the mom as well. Boogie has his entire life to hang in clubs (if he so chooses), it makes no sense for him to be there now. Also, Damon is holding liquor, appears intoxicated in the photo!What a terrible example he’s setting for Boogie, who looks like a nice young man.
I agree he should not be in adult clubs now. As far as the Jackson 5 goes those were different times then. He should stay in school and DJ at teen clubs.
i have to agree with the mom. especially since int he pictures his father looks drunk
There are 2 separate issues here. Even if Boogie was currently enrolled in school, he wouldn’t be missing class to DJ on New Year’s Eve. Nobody’s going to check his ID because he is with his custodial parent. This is not hanging out in a club - this is work. And it’s the work of the young man so the more experience he can get, the better if this is his career choice.
On the school enrollment issue, no doubt Boogie should be enrolled in high school. By the time of the hearing, my guess is Boogie will be in school and Linda’s point will be moot. At this stage of her son’s life, Linda’s adversarial approach isn’t going to work. “Because I said so” won’t cut it with an 18 year old.
This story is ridiculous! If she was so concerned with her son’s school why was he so easily allowed to go back with his father? Why was he with his father from 2002 is an even more important question. If anyone thinks that Damon Dash is going to let his son drop out of school and get drunk in a club obviously haven’t been paying any attention to Damon Dash for the past 10 years. And, if he were to even hint at letting his son do those things, a judge will definitely return custody to his mother. Being in a club with your father, DJing on NYE does not equate to drunken high school drop out. WAKE UP!!!!
I agree with Mom- he should finish his schooling. Notice she didn’t say she wants him to stop DJing… just not at the expense of school. I mean, I agree, he’s underage- whatever he may look like. This is her son, and she’s just trying to look out for him.