What Does DMX Want?

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