Rest in Peace DMX April 9th, 2021

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Im gonna go to whatever memorial service they have for him in the tri state area ...his music did so much for me when I was younger going into adulthood..his story was amazing to me

thank you! RIP

 

[DuncanWebayama]

Rest in peace, your style and energy was so different, thanks for the motivation and giving music I grew up with and still reminisce with today. Thank you!

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[DuncanWebayama]

I really tried to avoid this thread man, now that I'm here and reading this reality sunk in

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

On my sister’s birthday too

She don’t even listen to X like that but she was a lil down from hearing about his passing.

About to ride around the DMV and blast nothing but DMX for the whole drive.

#Ryde4X

 

[Michael's Black Son]

I think a big reason why this loss hurts especially for me, and maybe this applies to some other people of my generation, but X came out In that time period between childhood and adolescence. I was going into 8th grade.

I was old enough to know that a lot of childish things were in the rearview mirror, but not fully old enough to understand the complexities of the world, adulthood, mortality, etc. So in many ways DMX’s kind of was the last larger than life superhero that I was able to hang onto as a child, and he helped usher a lot of ideas into my brain about religion, death, sex, friendship, betrayal, relationships, family, and other themes that adults have to deal with regularly.

it sounds corny to say that his death is sort of like the last piece of my innocence dying, especially as a man in my 30’s, but in a way it does kind of feel that way.

we are losing people (famous and not famous) too damn early breh. That Kobe shyt was a fukking drop kick that no one has gotten over. But even legends like Prince and Michael Jackson should still be here eating.

Brehs dying these unnatural deaths is wild because it just keeps happening. The street shyt is one thing and it sucks that we lost very talented brehs over very avoidable shyt that resulted in bullets. Just like Selena shouldn’t have been anywhere near a psycho with a gun is the same way a dude like Nip in fukkin 2019 shouldn’t have been so damn easy to pick off.

A dude like X that has a cultural impact is gone and of course you feel it because he should be getting ready for a 90s/early 2000s music tour instead of his family hurting.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Another thing to add to my post just above.

I think because he didn’t have a childhood, X kind of spoke on some things in a way that a child might. That’s a compliment.

Like on Ready to Meet Him when he asks God to “hold me, stop acting like you don’t know me. What’s I do so badly that made you stay away from me?” Or on Slippin’ “Was it my fault? Something I did? To make a father leave his first kid?”

I think there’s a real power in speaking in such raw and simple language like that. It really resonates with everyone.

 

[Arithmetic]

WE lose OUR real ones too soon.

 

[ThiefyPoo]

R.I.P DMX I saw him at meek and friends concert a few years back .


He was amazing had the biggest roar from the crowd .

 

[TheDarceKnight]

we are losing people (famous and not famous) too damn early breh. That Kobe shyt was a fukking drop kick that no one has gotten over. But even legends like Prince and Michael Jackson should still be here eating.

Brehs dying these unnatural deaths is wild because it just keeps happening. The street shyt is one thing and it sucks that we lost very talented brehs over very avoidable shyt that resulted in bullets. Just like Selena shouldn’t have been anywhere near a psycho with a gun is the same way a dude like Nip in fukkin 2019 shouldn’t have been so damn easy to pick off.

A dude like X that has a cultural impact is gone and of course you feel it because he should be getting ready for a 90s/early 2000s music tour instead of his family hurting.

Exactly. I’m gonna always say Prodigy and Sean Price too. Prodigy died at 42 and Sean died at 43.

Neither was as big as X or Kobe, but they had larger than life personalities in their own right, and both should still be alive.

 

[Point Blank]

Done heard at least 5 people listening to X while stuck in traffic headed home

 

[MenacingMonk]

I’m sure it’s been posted, but I used to play this a lot around the time it dropped:



Goodbye to a Legend.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Requotiong this just so that more people can read it.

This one really hurts man.

That’s an incredible story, although it’s surreal to me that the kid didn’t look up his music after such an act of kindness from X like that. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Nomad1]

One of the best rappers to ever touch the mic idc what nikkas say

• It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
• Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
• ... And Then There Was X

Crazy 3 peat done in less 4 years
Rest in peace DMX

 

[MisterMajesty]

Slippin is going to fukking hurt so much to listen to now. Even reading the comments in here had me tearing up.

RIP to an absolute legend, and one of the best to pick up a mic ever.