What Does DMX Want?

he plays pinball right? that's the reference to flippin'

so what's he got against black people if he's playing pinball?

He bumped into the pinball machine and caused a tilt that's what.

What I don't get is why he would want to get some oral action when the guy's all bloody. Seems less than hygienic.

He wants to be put out of his misery, apparently.

He wants an analyst.

srsly.

He's a pinball wizard
There's got to be a twist

To kick ass.

It's "DMX April" in case someone forgot.

http://i41.tinypic.com/w7ztj8.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5nXpTuQ2jA

God go make me lose my mind

what does dmx want in a girl

are you trying to find out if dmx is a fudge on the low?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nouOWHC4o

http://www.thestrut.com/2012/12/03/dmx-singing-rudolf-the-red-nosed-reindeer-is-exactly-as-amazing-as-you-would-expect/

so awesome

rudolf with your nose so bright
COME ON COME ON
won't you drive my sleigh tonight
WHAT

v good

well this sorta made my day

COME ON COME ON

<3

i have to say, i did not expect for my day to be totally made by two DMX youtubes (Rudolph/Ghostbusters upthread) before lunchtime

X? He'd like to give it to you.

ha that ghostbusters one is great too

you wanna fight me? FIGHT THESE TEARS

^all time

omg I don't think I'd ever heard the ghostbusters one

yesssssssssssssssss

holy shit that was the BEST

wow and ghostbusters is awesome

he's so proud that he knows the rudolph lyrics

so great! best monday ever in like a while

you wanna fight me? FIGHT THESE TEARS

yeah, din know the track and laughted hard at that line

I would pay $9.99 for an album of DMX singing 15-20 Christmas songs the same way as this.

am i the only one who finds these crackhead-minstrel-show videos depressing???

no, but for once I wasn't going to say anything

I never took DMX seriously to begin with. He's a hype man and kinda funny.

? he seemed like he was sober and just having fun

yeah wtf, there's nothing exploitative about this

I didn't feel that strongly about it but I found it simultaneously catchy and hard to watch

I probably would have had a different reaction had the woman at the beginning not printed out the words to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for him, as if it was a legitimate concern that he might not know them, and if at the end he hadn't said "did I get all of the reindeer's names right?" thus validating the concern

git atta here. the google one was obv exploitative. this one, less overtly so, but it's p clear that power 105 has clued in to the fact that they basically have a minor youtube meme on demand.

and he didn't seem sober to me... he seemed, as usual, really out of it.

nah if he's out of it he's way more out of it than that

I didn't watch the Google one because I looked at the title before hitting play

at any rate, the guy is basically just pathetic at this point and these videos are at least exploiting an epically fallen star

i think it's a legitimate concern that an adult might not know all the words to Rudolph, if you wanted them to recite it. i sure as shit can't remember that whole thing off the top of my head.

I find that to be insane

admittedly I have had to sing "Rudolph" a bazillion times in my life but no one needed to remind me of the words after the age of 7

i wouldn't know the words by heart either and if i'd just done a rendition of it, whether i'd got the reindeers' names right would probably be my uppermost concern too

most people never sang in a fuckin choir, dude

i wouldn't know the words to rudolph, actually i sort of forgot about the intro part where they name the other reindeer, but DMX did!

I know all the reindeer's names, pretty sure I could sing it in my sleep

i mean if you're gonna be obnoxious and ask a celebrity to recite a song they didn't write on camera, the least you can do is provide a lyric sheet

Yeah I dont remember the words at all.

I could understand this conversation if it was about "The Holly and the Ivy" or "Personet Hodie", but it's about one of the most frequently-played holiday songs of all time

next you're gonna be all "'Jingle Bells'? How does that go?"

yeah i mean i KNOW those songs. but if someone put me on camera and made me recite them apropos of nothing, i might pause between sections like shit which part comes next. which, if that happened to DMX, the conversation would be about how he's a washed up crackhead. which is the conversation we're having anyway.

prince, maybe?

Probably like One Direction or some K pop thing, I’m not gonna do the due diligence on it

They all follow into the second category, you would think. Basically my point is that even when X didn’t have hit singles, like he is massively known for, his personality and story made him so engaging that he did something no one else could ever really do

Plenty of acts between the 60s and '10s had hit albums without releasing singles at all. I don't think Jimmy Page's personality comes into it.

Sure but I don’t think zeppelin and dmx are the same. He was still so new, in a genre that was incredibly singles driven, and released an album about god fearing self reflection. It’s not exactly Whole Lotta Love’s riff.

Jay Z has had 14 Number One albums and I'm guessing not all of them came with a hit single unless you really want to ride for "Blue Magic"

I guess technically Roc Boys came out before the album, again, I'm not gonna bean count this

Chicago has had five number one albums

Well 1998 was a year where a Cappadonna album could debut at #3.

Yeah, like 1997-2002 was like peak music industry

Silkk the Shocker's Main Man hit No. 1 that very year with no pre-release single according to wiki

he Charged [those sales] 2 Da Game

Well 1998 was a year where a Cappadonna album could debut at #3.

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when the music industry is doing well rap is doing well

or maybe invert those

that cappadonna album rules

yea incredible album

i remember noz saying mf doom was listening to it a ton when recording op doomsday which makes a lot of sense ... the flow style

ahhh interesting

 hoy hoy at 4:56 12 Apr 21

My second question then is: Has anyone else, between 60s types up until people too followed on social media, had such personality that they could have a hit album with no single?

I dunno, Korn? Wu Tang didn't have huge singles....a lot of metal bands

Pantera had at least one #1 album and radio didn’t touch those guys.

A quite good dmx piece:

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-real-shit/

^^ that was excellent

the author says that dmx was the first rapper that he can recall being aware of, I’m trying to think of the first rapper i can remember being aware of...probably busta

or coolio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Tat4ONKR8

Worth a look if you want to hear what he was like when he was rapping in a more traditional way.

Always thought dame grease got unfairly stuck in second place after swizz in terms of his producers.

Andrew Unterberger at Billboard on why the US radio airplay charts didn't represent DMX as well as the album sales charts: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9555561/dmx-hot-100-chart-success-ruff-ryders-anthem

A comment about sandals on another thread suddenly made me free associate to the DMX/Jay-Z sandals diss

DMX – the oft-arrested hip-hop star – says real men don’t wear sandals. And he blames Beyoncé for Jay-Z’s flip-flop fetish. “The flip-flops – he’s just not the same,” DMX complains in Vibe magazine. “It’s Beyoncé. He’s a sucker for love. Thugs don’t do flip-flops. Yo, no matter how much vacation I’m on – we been to St. Thomas, Bahamas, all the little islands – I don’t wear no flip-flops. I’m never that comfortable, not even in my own house.”

I always found that quote unintentionally revealing and sad. RIP, hope you found comfort.

Exodus is out.

It's loaded up on big guest features, which is par for the course I guess.

BUT

DMX sounds really good! and Swizz has some cool production

It's a very uneven album with some totally confusing choices but there are maybe four great tracks (Money Money Money, Hood Blues, Take Control, Walking in the Rain) and Bath Salts and Hold Me Down are pretty good. Prayer is a good way to end.

have always loved him on jayo felonys whatcha gonna do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZNDQzvhpU

oh shit! the things you forget with old age! goddamn, i literally wore that 12" out. that part about "too sexy for mah mothafuken low rye-DAH!" got juggled so much people told me to replace my copies because it sounded terrible.

HOW DID I SO THOROUGHLY FORGET ABOUT SUCH AN ABSOLUTE JAM?

i am forever indebted to you, spottie.

To see the peep show and hit some DOOK CHUTE

lol. i could never work out what he says a few lines before ("with big mike n scarface with Luke? loop?") that but the enunciation is so weird it's always stood out to me.

austin its always been a favorite of mine but its a forgotten gem for sure.

to be adored