Love him or hate him Dame Dash always keeps popping up in the latest hip-hop business news for his new ventures. Once a hustler…always a hustler. Personally, WoooHa feels Dame Dash still has plenty to offer the hip-hop world as we await his Blac Roc project and new film with Mos Def. Unfortunately WoooHa has exclusively learned that Dame’s biggest internet project to date, BlockSavvy.com is now dead.
For those who remember, Dash launched BlockSavvy.com back in December of 2006 hoping to capitalize off the popularity of social networking sites like MySpace. BlockSavvy was built to be the “urban lifestyle” version of MySpace but where users could upgrade their virtual neighborhood “block” and design their own rooms using Savvy dollars. Despite a huge PR push and lining up big time advertisers ranging from Toyota to AT&T, BlockSavvy.com was never really able to lift off. Perhaps part of the reason was that Dash was more concerned about making MySpace type money off of the site versus really paying attention and focusing on the user interface and on-site experience.
Back in 2007, CNN Money asked him his reasons for creating the site in which Dash responded, “Money. After MySpace sold for $580 million, we said, damn, we gotta get us some of that.”
So now BlockSavvy.com is dead. Officially dead. The site has been completely removed from the internet and there are no current announced plans to relaunch the site. In the meantime, Dame Dash has already moved on to his next projects leaving the future fate of BlockSavvy to original site developer Kwame Decuir. Will there ever be a BlockSavvy 2.0? With Damon Dash always expect the unexpected…even though no website is in place, they just renewed the rights to the BlockSavvy.com name last month.
I was all about the R-O-C back then and I remember this – but like most of DDs projects I knew it would be short lived.
Maybe Blac Roc will put him back on the track to success…maybe….
i dunno – i think it will be a one album experiment and that is that
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The UI was terrible on that site and so was the overall point. They should come back with something better and more relevant now. ALl the gimmicks are old.
blocksavvy was dope iliked it
BLack Savvy was terrible. That shit never loaded corrrectly and what was the point/goal? To just create a virtual bedroom..wtf!??!
I LIKED BLOCK SAVVY, MET SOME COOL PEOPLE ON THAT SITE.
i do respect damon dash no matter wat
i respect that dude op yu come better dis tyme yu my hero damm.
Dame dash I’m in Texas the group is called bsh Texas best no BS you got too check us out. 30 miles from UGK!
Bring back the BLOCK!