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

[iLLusoYuN_Da_Adidas_King]

I remember going to the cd store to listen t it you know just to check it out had this one store called rock bottom that would let you bump before you copped.

Yo That shyt was iLL as FUKKK!!!! Copped that shyt in 5 minutes nodding my head like a muthafukka. EVERYBODY knew that shyt I mean EVERYBODY.

 

[Food Mane]

The Ruff Ryder's Anthem video had me working out outside, despite my gym membership.

 

[HomieSoprano]

Stop Being Greedy how he switched his delivery/style every 4 bars or so...calm to gritty/hype. Whole song had a Castlevania vibe to it which made it even more to me

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Stop Being Greedy how he switched his delivery/style every 4 bars or so...calm to gritty/hype. Whole song had a Castlevania vibe to it which made it even more to me

I remember first time hearing that on the radio, the dj's were going and playing it back

 

[patscorpio]

man all i gotta say is...

Don't came at me wit no bullshyt, use caution
Cause when I wet shyt, I dead shyt, like abortions
For bigger portions, of extortion then racketeering
Got nikkaz fearin, fukk whatchu heard, this whatchu hearin
How much darker must it get, how much harder must it hit
See if your hardest nikkaz flip, when I start a bunch of shyt
I like p*ssy, but not up in my face, so gimme three feet
Cause when we creep, no more than three deep, nikkaz see sheep
Bloodhounds found your shyt buried in the mud
Following traces of gun powder, residue and blood
A positive ID is impossible, so you know
John Doe is what they gon' be puttin on that tag on yo' toe
Now who gon tell yo mother, her baby's under a cover in the morgue
Stiff as a log, sniffed out by the dogs
Son of a hard headed nikka that wouldn't listen
so you got whatchu came for
[Sheek] What's that?

[DMX]
Surgery wit the chainsaw grrrrr, I hit the fukkin streets
cause like I said before ain't nothin goin down until I eat
Mu'fukkers think it's all about impressin bytches and stressin bytches
Well, I'm testin bytches game, adressin bytches, and caressin bytches
And dealin wit mu'fukkers on all levels
What I'm dealin wit is all devils, fukkin with snakes
Runnin wit nikkaz you call rebels
I got an army of 730 nikkaz, dirty nikkaz
that come through and worry nikkaz
30 nikkaz that like to bury nikkaz
And scary nikkaz get it all the time
cause what they got is all of mine
Your man was talkin shyt until I pulled the nine
And if I don't know you, I don't fukk witchu
And if you wit my man, then he gettin stuck witchu
and gave it the money
Cause I just lost my mind when he crossed the line
Sent his back through his chest
then I tossed the nine, boss of crime
Black Gotti, I stack bodies wit the black shotty
bytch-ass nikkaz who act snotty
Get it

These nikkaz is for real
These nikkaz ain't playin

This ain't no fukkin game
You think we playin?
Ruff Ryders

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

That intro alone

 

[The_Hillsta]

Muthafvckas rushin the dance floor whenever RRA got spun. shyt had the club on smash, one of them club bangers where you could slide a bird's dress up without her really trippin....a la Back That Azz Up.

 

[avon barksdale]

got a question for the old fans...whose the Chicks Name In DMX's "Hows It Going Down" Video the lead one

 

[malbaker86]

at the memories


Here in Jax it was huge when it dropped.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

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

That was what I was saying. Flesh of My Flesh was pretty much all Swizz. RR Anthem was the only Swizz track on Hell is Hot.

 

[DopeMan]

dmx - Intro - It's Dark And Hell Is Hot - YouTube

Sexy stuff this

 

[Big Mel]

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

No. That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying that the SOUND of the album was completely foreign to the way NYC hip hop had traditionally sounded up until that point. It has keyboards all over it.

I like the album. I said that in my first post but i knew I didn't like where the SOUND was going. And I was right. Think of the "Swizz Era" that followed. It was vile.


the thread asked for "your reaction to this album". i've given you mine.

 

[2gunsup]

I was already a X stan before the 1st album,

Think it was 97 or some shyt I remember riding my bike to downtown to cop that DJ Craig G cassette tape which was all X and a couple bangers from his album were on it,

Black Sony Radio era >

 

[Doctor Wily]

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.

For whatever reason dudes were loving those Korg Triton sounds... even though he (Swizz) played that damn keyboard like a "fisher price my first piano"

I couldn' t stand Swizz's sound until he started working with cassidy.

 

[Big Mel]

when he turned into "go go swizzy"


LOL