1, four-times platinum debut with another chart-topper, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, selling a combined 7 million copies in the US alone. In less than a year, he followed up his no.
However, that was hard to do when DMX was busy taking over the world. He was trying to find peace.ĭMX 2019 One Music Fest. Listening to X rhyme on such salt-of-the-earth yet ominous tracks as “Get at Me Dog,” “Stop Being Greedy,” and “Niggaz Done Started Something” effortlessly came off as the flip side to the dope boy-to-riches story of his Marcy Projects label mate who wore a suit and posed next to a Bentley Azure convertible for his album cover. The from-the-gutter material of DMX’s 1998 introduction It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot was both fight and redemption music.
Yet a grizzled 27-year-old MC who made his bones battle rapping on the streets of Yonkers wanted his first. Master P, Outkast, and Cash Money Records were letting it be known that not only did the South have something to say, they were eyeing a complete takeover. Rap was quickly changing at breakneck speed. He saw X as the jagged crown jewel of an imposing, back-to-basics movement led by the rapper’s Ruff Ryders outfit, which would later include the concrete street rhyme trio The Lox, soon-to-be super-producer Swizz Beatz, and double platinum female spitter Eve.
mastermind Irv Gotti is the man responsible for bringing X to Def Jam Records (the game-changing hip-hop label that LL Cool J built), who understood his appeal before anyone else.
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