And by 2006, he was getting staler than week-old dog food. The greatest criticism of DMX is that he refused to evolve over the years. Travel back to a time when the dog owned the yard.Įdd said: Yikes.
As always, we’ll be just ranking his official solo LPs, skipping compilations and mixtapes, and judging his material based on quality, impact and cohesiveness. Let’s look back at the dog’s storied but very controversial catalog. 1 albums in the same calendar year (more on that later), and six of his seven albums have all topped the charts. He’s one of the biggest stars in rap history, racking up 74 million albums sold worldwide, is the first rapper to drop two No. Most younger fans only know X for the drama but if you’re reading this post, you know Dark Man X is much bigger than memes and reindeer games. He’s like the Luke Cage of tabloids – no matter how many shots they take, the dude just won’t go down. I knew it was fake though – no one has endured more tribulation than Earl Simmons and stood his ground. Just a few days ago, DMX was the latest death hoax victim. “He was so happy after doing that Verzuz with Snoop Dogg, and getting back into music-making mode, that he wanted to get his messages out there, to the people, and have some fun too.It seems like every couple of months the Internet tries to prematurely murder someone. Swizz also spoke about DMX’s Verzuz face-off with Snoop Dogg last summer, which remains one of the series’ most-popular episodes, and that it had primed the rapper to begin working on new music. The song opened the show’s first episode of season two, with the entire season “dedicated to my brother,” notes Swizz.
Forest Whitaker, everybody from the ‘Godfather’ team and the network, loved the song and wanted it to come out immediately.” He was excited to do it which is why we let it come out early. “If I’m not mistaken that was the last vocal he recorded. “We finished the album, and then started working on another new song for ‘The Godfather of Harlem,” soundtrack,” he says. “Been to War” was released a week after DMX’s death on April 9.
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He called their recent collaborations “masterful,” and noted that “Exodus” had been completed before they began recording “Been to War,” a song from the Epix TV series “Godfather of Harlem” also featuring Swizz and French Montana. He would give people anything they needed, be it prayers, clothes or money, before he took any for himself.” He was the most giving, caring person I know. There are a lot of people who shadow his shortcoming and hard goings, but, I’ve seen way more light than dark, knowing him for real. “There was no one like him, and never will be,” he says, before referring to X by his real name. It is unclear whether “Been to War,” a song from the Epix TV series “Godfather of Harlem” that also features Swizz and French Montana released a week after DMX’s death on April 9, will appear on the album.ĭMX’s longtime friend and collaborator Swizz Beatz, who executive produced the album, talked with Variety about him earlier this month. Sources also say that Pop Smoke collaboration was planned for the album but dropped at the last minute, as was a track with Buffalo rap combo Griselda, “Shady Blues” a song called “X Moves” released online last month - a collaboration with the bizarre combination of musicians P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins, Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice - also will not appear on the album. The new album shares its name with DMX’s son Exodus Simmons.Ī source tells Variety that guests on the album include Jay-Z, Nas, Bono of U2 (on a song called “Skyscrapers”), Usher (on the closing track “Letter to My Son”), Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys. A post shared by Swizz Beatz the days after DMX’s death from a heart attack last month, several people close to the veteran rapper said that he recently had completed a new studio album, and details have begun to emerge about the release, which drops in two weeks, on May 28, via Ruff Ryders and Def Jam Recordings, the home of his most successful recordings, with whom he signed a new deal in 2019.
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