What Does DMX Want?

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

hahahaha that's such a deep burn omg

dying

Is this the active DMX thread?

BREAKING: DMX reportedly suffers drug overdose, is in "grave condition"https://t.co/IzjKrN3UNW

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) April 3, 2021

very unfortunate prequel of posts...

DMX, the chart-topping rapper who blended aggressive menace with emotional sincerity, has died at age 50 following a heart attack https://t.co/4ntm2nbEss

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 9, 2021

RIP

I love his short freestyle here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0QwmsnCucw

I hadn't seen this clip from Top Five but it cracked me the fuck up. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytu7AeaYEW0&

loool

RIP. i cherish the memories of listening to it's dark and hell is hot while playing final fantasy 7

god needed someone to cross over to the afterlife and give prince phillip the beating he deserves

when i was in high school he got arrested near my whitebread town (traffic stop, "a small amount of marijuana was discovered"), and a couple loudmouth goon kids in my school had parents who were guards where he was being held. they were briefly very popular for having behind the scenes tales of what a badly behaved inmate he supposedly was, throwing food at the guards & etc. i was 110% team DMX then & now, hope he knocked their teeth out

rip dark man x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZOq-_LXfHg

man.

the greatest born loser.

rest well, dark man.

dark and hell is hot while playing final fantasy 7

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_9ruYUva9c

“It’s a dirty job but I just love doin it” 😎

He and Ol' Dirty Bastard were like the last gasp of the Captain Caveman rappers.

I know I barely register as a rap fan on here, but back in the 90s I used to love this track he did with Cam'ron, which was probably the first time I heard him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhpiUI3ZKP4

dude at the very least, that's a mixtape classic. when that and "money power respect" came out, it was clear dmx was on something completely different.

"i hear that but don't go near that, you betta fear that"

forever convinced that "Party Up" has started more fights than any other non-political song

This is one of those cases where his legacy feels tiny compared to his importance at his peak. He was Jay-Z or Tupac level popular, with those kinds of sales. Like 25 million?

Maybe it's a combination of his post-fame life story (pretty tragic) and his rapping style (and associated production style) that means that it feels like a B-list story. The Ruff Ryders / Lox pretty much dominated NYC when I arrived here in 98. It just hasn't found the critical look back that other scenes (Dungeon Family, Chopped and Screwed, early trap) has. And to be honest, it doesn't sound great to my ears today (having not heard him in around 18 years).

Two #1 albums inside 7 months... is that not some kind of record? Or at least not done since? What a wild run.

Doesn't feel like a b-list story, the RIPs have been a reminder of how big X was as a crossover artist - beloved by rednecks who listened to Pantera to rednecks who listened to country to pop fans to rap fans and everyone in between.

As a Newfoundlander, very otm. Loved the singles. Everyone did.

Two #1 albums inside 7 months... is that not some kind of record? Or at least not done since? What a wild run.

Five #1 albums in a row. All debuted at #1, too.

I guess I'm suggesting that he hasn't been seen as "influential" (for whatever that's worth). But I could be wrong, as milo z indicates.

_Two #1 albums inside 7 months... is that not some kind of record? Or at least not done since? What a wild run._

Five #1 albums in a row. All debuted at #1, too.

dmx’s imperial phase happened before i got heavy into hip-hop (i was 8 when it’s dark and hell is hot came out), so my earliest exposure to him came thru mtv, and it was clear that he was on some other shit. and i still knew the words to 5-6 of his hits through sheer cultural osmosis

rip to the man

I still remember seeing the Get at Me Dog video for the first time an being like who is this guy?

hadn't heard where the hood at? in forever, yeesh that is some fucking vile homophobia

“Where the Hood At” is off the chain for sure, but what’s amazing to me was that Def Jam heard that and was like “This is the lead single”

it's jaw dropping

Something about the response to the man’s death in major media outlets vs here feels weird....like, is he an intriguing minor figure or one of the half-dozen greatest rappers in history, as Twitter / NYC / WaPo etc is telling me?

(Since those two albums dropped during a period where I paid essentially no attention to new music, this is a real question—do, ahem, heads really rank him as highly as the obits would suggest?)

i know in the months between the first and second albums, he had that kind of hype. and he always the singles to at least remind people of what he could when he was focused on music. who knows what would have happened if he had retained the momentum he had going into his third album and stayed light on (or completely away from) the substances.

he's certainly one of the most popular rappers ever. even people like me who lost interest after that third album still respect that early stuff - and even moreso in the subsequent years because of the apparent self-prophesy of it all. how it ended only confirms it, further solidifying its big picture poignancy.

also duh, i was 17 when the first album came out.

and he always had the singles to at least remind people of what he could do when he was focused on music.

fixed.

As a Newfoundlander

His earliest stuff was real centered around the stuff for heads — “4, 3, 2, 1,” “Get at Me Dog,” the verses for Cam and the Lox etc. Him and Jadakiss were probably the last New York guys to find success purely off of “this guy is from New York and is very good at rapping in the traditional sense of rapping” that carried basically carried NY for 20 years. But his legacy would ultimately be his personality and his infectious pop chants and his legal record so it’s very easy to forget what a force he was in those first two or three years

Like it makes sense that he started rapping in the 80s.

“this guy is from New York and is very good at rapping in the traditional sense of rapping”

I would argue that 50 cent closed out that era.

DMX was never fashionable with hip hop heads. I remember that Funk Flex (hugely influential at the time) didn't like him. Which probably endeared X to a lot of people.

i assume many people hear some dated-sounding shortcomings in his records' production value but i kinda think all of that stuff sounds even stronger in hindsight.

re: Funk Flex i couldn't help noticing he didn't air much of a DMX tribute on Friday night. i'm guessing it was pre-taped?