What Does DMX Want?

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.

every year I get "jingle bell rock" stuck in my head from black friday to mid-march of the following year and I still don't know the words, giddy up giddy up pick up yr feet something something thru the frosty air, but tbf I am a crackhead

yeah it's like when you do karaoke on a song you "know by heart" then you're all like stumbling on a few lines you forgot even w/the lyrics on the screen there

i don't know the words to 'rudolph'. maybe DMX is jewish, ever think of that, huh?

or just not an actual reindeer

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

Batman smells iirc

I'd have trouble with the opening part.

me too. watching the video, i was like, "oh yeah, that part."

real talk I've never sung 'rudolph the red nose reindeer' front to back

I think the only time I've ever heard the song in its entirety is when I watched that claymation christmas movie, uh, where the nose actually lights up? idk it was some scary shit

yo god that claymation is the original shit that put rudolph on the map

yeah word. that shit is a fuiud classic.

http://i.imgur.com/WFELv.jpg

TOUCH MY NOSE LITTLE BOY

TOUCH IT

YEAH

YEAH

THATS GOOD

well it does make that eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee noise which *is* kinda weird/creepy

http://i.imgur.com/zqxIl.jpg

oh lord

I dunno if I'd ever heard that opening bit before DMX sang it tbh

rudolph was famous WAY before the claymation; the gene autry version (which, as i've been on an autry kick for the past few weeks, is on my mind) was the one that really put it on the map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ara3-hDH6I

outside of the burl ives, also worth remembering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcU0vKODpW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0acyD5iEaPU

those of us of a certain age will always associate it with this tho'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs--phzj2TQ

The Streetcorner Singers. Who were those guys anyway?

oh god one of the 3 nintendo power issues I owned as a kid had a walkthrough for a game based on those raisin dudes

horrifying

xxpost sic -- that intro is part of the original Rudolph lyrics, it was on the old Gene Autry and Bing Crosby versions i always listened to

that's how I learned the reindeer!

the original has less raisin and more funky guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuvlIgSj0Y

nice suits!

that intro is part of the original Rudolph lyrics, it was on the old Gene Autry and Bing Crosby versions i always listened to

that's how I learned the reindeer!

yeah I probably have heard it (listening to the Autry now) sometimes, but 99.1% of my hearing of the song would be in school singing and shopping centre carols and such. I def remember thinking it was some dumbing-down bullshit for sticking one new made-up nonsense-powered dude in as lead and reducing all the Night Before Christmas named reindeer to [omnes], as a kid

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZ3-a7lCAU

2020 singlehandedly redeemed by DMX:

'I was thinking Tony Yayo.'

DMX apologizes to Lloyd Banks for questioning his lyrical ability: https://t.co/Zm1l5C4HaT pic.twitter.com/vGCDHqQTIX

— Complex (@Complex) May 28, 2020

great revive

to be adored