This year, as news spread of DMX’s hospitalization, LL Cool J reminisced on Twitter: “Today is 4/3/21 - it’s only right that we celebrate the talent and genius of my brother DMX on the 4, 3, 2, 1 song. “Do you value your life as much as your possessions?/Don’t be a stupid nigga, learn a lesson/I’m gon’ get you either way! And it’s better to live/Let me get what’s in your sock, ‘cause it’s better to give,” he instructs. Meanwhile, Method Man and Redman ladle the cut with punchlines, and DMX uses his verse to shout out energetic ski-mask threats. Produced by Erick Sermon, LL Cool J’s street hit from his 1997 album Phenomenon is not only famed for inaugurating Def Jam’s late-Nineties “Survival of the Illest” era, but also for sparking a subsequent war of words between seasoned vet Uncle L and brash newcomer Canibus. LL Cool J featuring Method Man, Redman, Canibus, and DMX, “4, 3, 2, 1” (1997) Here are 16 of DMX’s most essential songs.
Effortlessly balancing raw charisma with hit-making savvy, X had a major impact on the sound and direction of an era in hip-hop, and the catalog he built stands as a landmark of passionate, profound performance. The Yonkers, New York, rapper, who died April 9th at age 50 after being hospitalized with a heart attack days earlier, burst onto the scene in the Nineties with one of the most distinctive voices on the radio - a commanding presence on the mic, from his earliest guest appearances to the five straight multi-platinum albums he released starting in 1998.
DMX was a larger-than-life force in rap music at the turn of the millennium. He's still torn between the thug life and spiritual concerns (even including a long prayer in the liner notes), but the most exciting tracks on. Even when Swizz Beats' usually reliable productions fall through, DMX brings it all back with his tough rhymes and inventive wordplay. Killer Trackz, and Shok - all part of Ruff Ryders - are heavily synthesized and occasionally melodramatic, just like both of his previous albums. True, it's similar to his last, which balanced new-school gangsta tracks ("The Professional," "Make a Move") with a couple that question the inevitable trappings that come with success ("Fame," "One More Road to Cross"). And Then There Was X doesn't show much sign of burnout. Though it's DMX's third album in two years.
See More Your browser does not support the audio element. And Then There Was X are good-time joints like "Party Up" and "What's My Name?"
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