DMX Debut album "It's Dark and Hell is Hot", released on this day 26 yrs ago
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Still makes me laugh that I only even bought the album to hear LL response to canibus
Decided to listen since I was already out the money
. .. and lemme tell you.
I knew by the end of the intro I was listening to something very different.
The_Third_Man
Superstar
what made this album a classic, beside the great fukking music, is its impact on the game. this album came out when Bad Boy was running the rap game. X made hiphop hardcore again.
I believe I heard this, I know one song was from '94 when he was going to go to death row
No Hook
Get It How U Live
I believe I heard this, I know one song was from '94 when he was going to go to death row
Never knew he had songs from 94 but yea. Get At Me Dog was originally "that nikka 2Pac can suck my dikk"
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
Some of you younger heads wouldn't remember just how big this was when it came out. He really dominated that whole year.
The back to back of "It's Dark & Hell Is Hot" and "Flesh of My Flesh" was a career and industry defining moment, as well as the partial, near omnipresent to my 7th grade year. Similar to when Cash Money dropped that same year, it was just this feeling of wonder, like "what is this?" None of us, in San Diego, in Spring Valley, had ever heard anything that sounded as raw as "Ruff Ryder's Anthem", triumphant, menacing, with that same nihilistic style that Pac had, it was unlike anything we had ever seen or heard. I was honestly more prone to the stylish, refined Jay-Z style, but I still loved X, I had a friend though, that was like wearing RR chains, and swore by DMX, anti materialism, anti industry. He loved him.
The edits, X's delivery, the video, the grittiness of the whole RR movement swept the country, and my school that year. People used to yell that coming down the hallways. I didn't have the album, because I could barely afford to buy cd's, maybe like 5 a year. I probably had the single, I bought a lot of those. And then, X came back the very next year, with "And Than There Was X", which I did finally buy.
The edits, X's delivery, the video, the grittiness of the whole RR movement swept the country, and my school that year. People used to yell that coming down the hallways. I didn't have the album, because I could barely afford to buy cd's, maybe like 5 a year. I probably had the single, I bought a lot of those. And then, X came back the very next year, with "And Than There Was X", which I did finally buy.
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DoomzdayzV
Banned
album has a very unique vibe to me....makes me think of summer 98 in Montreal, goin to the strip clubs 4 nights a week, beating nikkas brains out with my haitian brehs, being high off E pills, boosting Fubu and Lugz gear from out the FootLocker on ste catherines street. maaaan. those were the days
Greatest album of all time. The GOAT... the other day I was arguing with this 21yr old at my job because he was telling me that Kanye overall is better than DMX. And also that Jay Z and Nas were hotter than X in 98
MooseMouthMthafuga
Veteran
DMX is the G.O.A.T
Can't give him that.Probably more like the Dominique Wilkins of rap.Which is not bad
I still never heard an album that sounds like it.
Can't give him that.Probably more like the Dominique Wilkins of rap.Which is not bad
More like the Bernard King to me
YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy
Superstar
Breh, that's pretty disrespectful.Can't give him that.Probably more like the Dominique Wilkins of rap.Which is not bad
Nique was never the best in the league. Not even top 5 when he played. No MVPs. No rings. No finals appearances.
If a classic album is a ring, X got one his rookie year. From 98-00, X was it. Birthed a lot of clones, launched a movement, killed the shiny suit era.