In the 21 st century, he continued to battle his demons and face legal and personal troubles, sometimes finding himself in the crosshairs of the most leering purveyors of tabloid media.īut that shouldn’t be how he is remembered, and it won’t be. The story of his childhood is heartbreaking-he was in and out of group homes and various forms of incarceration, wandering the streets of Yonkers and befriending stray dogs to escape his abusive mother.
He lived a difficult life, a fact of which he made no secret. The Bachelor’s Relationship to Influencers Has Never Been More TwistedĮarl Simmons’ dazzling talent was never his whole story.Taylor Swift’s Red Rerelease Proves What Swifties Always Knew In the ’60s and ’70s, People Kept Dying at Huge Concerts. X takes the last verse and just murders the track, a reminder that he could be a phenomenal lyrical technician when occasion called for it: “Now who gon’ tell your mother her baby’s under a cover / In the morgue, stiff as a log, sniffed out by the dogs?” One of my favorite DMX performances is in “ N-z Done Started Something,” the last track on It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot that features the Lox and Mase. A line like “what you don’t know is gonna get you fucked up” reads as pretty straightforward, but hear it in X’s gruff, punching snarl, and it stops you in your tracks. He’s hard to write about because words on the page can’t begin to capture the sonic power of his art. Along with the albums-three in a two-year span-he turned in show-stopping guest features on tracks like the Lox’s “ Money, Power & Respect,” Cam’ron’s “ Pull It,” and Jay-Z’s “ Money, Cash, Hoes.” Some of X’s most indelible work came on tracks with other artists, which only enhanced the singularity of his presence. It put me in that old X vibe.X was absurdly prolific in this period. The beat reminded me of ‘Stop Being Greedy’ a little bit when I was doing it. The song is called ‘Money Money Money’, so I felt like Moneybagg Yo was perfect for it, and I actually like him as an artist. Pop Smoke was like, ‘I want something that sound like X.’ And then I think by mistake or whatever, the verses got out, and they was put on different songs, so we had to change it at the last minute. I wanted it-and he wanted it-to be energy from today, which is why Pop Smoke originally had this slot. “I didn’t want the album just to be artists from when X first came out. He also explained why Pop Smoke didn’t make the cut on the album. With Hov and Nas, people know what they getting, you know what I’m saying?” Swizz says on ‘Bath Salts’ featuring Jay-Z and Nas: “Out the gate, we just wanted to put pressure on everybody-and then take them on this journey at the same time. Apart from the above mentioned names, other guests on the project include Moneybagg Yo, Snoop Dogg, Mr. Just a couple of months before he died, X had expressed his excitement about the new music on the Drinks Champs podcast where he revealed some surprise guest appearances on his album from Usher, Bono, Jay-Z, Nas Griselda, Lil Wayne and more.įollowing the tracklist reveal a few days ago and the single ‘Hood Blues‘ with Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher & Conway The Machine, the album is finally here for our listening pleasure, executive produced by his good friend Swizz. As we all know by now, X was working hard on his comeback album after re-signing with Def Jam, with the help of Swizz Beatz. It has been a tough few weeks for hip hop fans as one of the greatest rappers to ever live passed away last month unexpectedly after a reported overdose which led to multiple organ failure.
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