When DMX Dropped 'It's Dark and Hell Is Hot'

[Methodical]

He ended shiny suit era.

 

[Tom]

Without DMX did would be no Ruffryders movement

the man alone started a movement.


I always thought that X had some kind of stock in RR the same way Jay was an owner of Rocafella. The fact that he didn't was a huge mistake IMO......

 

[Mandizi]

He was their stock.

 

[feelsthecitybreathin]

was going into 7th grade...i fukked with hip hop before it dropped but that shyt holds a special place in my heart

first album i remember playing THE fukk out of...reciting every song word for word. after that i stanned that motherfukker like crazy, remember being on def jams message boards back back in the day on the dmx section

wont forget the impact that it had on me growing up...real talk

 

[Techniec]

It ruined NYC hip hop IMO. that's not to say it's not a dope album but it's ramifications were deadly on the sound of NYC.

that album dropped in the midst of the shiny suit era, if anything it brought NY grime back

NY lyricism was already out the door no?

 

[Techniec]

DMX ran 98, had Toronto on lock, I was hating on him at that time but kinda secretly fukked with his shyyt

 

[Big Mel]

I'm talking about the way NYC hip hop beats sounded.

Think of the difference between Smif N Wessun and the Cocoa Brovaz albums sonically.

That's the shift in sound that startled the fukk out of me when I heard DMX's album initially.

 

[just my thoughts]

It started that super aggro, synth heavy, sample free, microwaved keyboard beat phase that all but buried the roots of hip hop productions glory years.

The stuff that happened after that album is some of the worst shyt I've ever heard. fukkin clue & duro, megahertz, DJ shok, just blazes initial keyboard stuff, Ron browz etc.

Gotcha so because producers were forced to think instead of build of what was already there you disliked it. Gotcha

 

[Big Mel]

LOL!

Stock Casio sounds poorly meshed together with midi ftw!


*what y'all nikkas want?? Swizz beats'*

 

[aRoMaN21]

 

[Rapmastermind]

His energy was just to much. He commanded the track when you heard it. That's why though he may not have been as lyrical on some callabo's he still outshinned everyone cause his energy was just crazy on the mic:

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I remember everyone was rocking ruff ryder shirts.

 

[avon barksdale]

this what these simps need to hear today....

[ame=http://youtu.be/4AognXgM9FQ]DMX - How's It Goin' Down - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Whitty Hutton]

LOL!

Stock Casio sounds poorly meshed together with midi ftw!


*what y'all nikkas want?? Swizz beats'*

Swizz only had one beat on the album though. You saying Dame Grease's beat werent NYC enough?

 

[its_normal]

I was the only hip hop head in my circle at that time, every man was on a UK garage ting at the time but the one hip hop artist they would listen to at the time was dmx because he was raw.