He opens up about his childhood trauma-abusive mother, drug addiction, group homes and juvenile detention among the obstacles he faced. On “Slippin’”, X gets real about overcoming the harder moments in life. DMX encourages Slim Shady as he tells Ja Rule to “die nameless” on one of Eminem’s greatest diss tracks.ĭMX has a softer side, just one he isn’t always known for. “Go to Sleep” (Eminem featuring DMX and Obie Trice) (2003)īeef is a part of hip-hop, so Eminem tagged in DMX and labelmate Obie Trice for a triple-team attack on Ja Rule and fellow rapper Benzino, who infuriated Eminem by calling him “2003 Vanilla Ice”. But the rapper ended up giving the song a try, handing Swizz Beatz his first major hit while creating a genre anthem.ĥ. The third single from It's Dark and Hell Is Hot was produced again by a young Swizz Beatz, who in 2011 told Complex that DMX didn’t think the beat was “hood enough”. One of DMX’s biggest hits, “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” almost didn’t happen. Swizz Beatz and DMX perform live in 2015Getty Images for Bacardi The iconic Albert King sample was inspired by Big Daddy Kane’s “Young, Gifted and Black,” which sampled the blues tune first. The biggest question DMX asked in his career was “Where the Hood At?” The Yonkers native was still going strong by his fifth album, which he began promoting with this single. Video: Rapper, actor DMX, five-time Billboard chart topper, dead at 50 (Reuters) “Party Up” is DMX’s most successful song in the US and for good reason – despite its confrontational lyrics toward unnamed rappers, Swizz Beatz’s production anchors the track as the seminal club banger that it is. © Provided by The IndependentĭMX on the Ruff Ryders tour in 1999ShutterstockĭMX and longtime collaborator Swizz Beatz were capable of producing frequent hits when they worked together. Standing alongside Sheek Louch, Styles P, Jadakiss, and Lil Kim, DMX looked and sounded like a star, which he would become in just a few short months. The title track on The LOX’s third album, “Money, Power & Respect” featured a young DMX prior to the release of It’s Dark and Hell is Hot. “Money, Power & Respect” (The LOX featuring Lil Kim and DMX) (1998) The song saw a major resurgence in 2016, when it was featured in Marvel’s Deadpool.ĩ. As the lead single on the Cradle 2 the Grave soundtrack, DMX delivers his signature bark and to-the-point bars. Everybody knows who X is and what he’s going to do.
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His last album, Redemption of the Beast, was released in 2015.Īs the world remembers DMX’s contributions, these are 10 of the rapper’s best songs.
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This was a feat he’d go on to repeat – DMX was the first artist to reach No 1 on the Billboard 200 with five consecutive albums, changing hip-hop’s chart prominence forever.