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

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[feelosofer]

I'm older than a lot of you dudes, but I understand the impact this album had on the youth, I think the game was desperate for someone to take on 2Pacs mantle and DMX had rebranded himself and came out at the right time. I still think his 1st 2 albums are very good albums.

 

[Tom]

I'm older than a lot of you dudes, but I understand the impact this album had on the youth, I think the game was desperate for someone to take on 2Pacs mantle and DMX had rebranded himself and came out at the right time. I still think his 1st 2 albums are very good albums.

Lets not forget Ja Rule looking all Pac'd out in that Jay Z video "Can I get a.." at around the same time


I remember looking at that video for the first time in 98 like ""


Eastcoast just sucked up all Pac's swag after he died

 

[Change]

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.

I agree with this all the way. I know exactly what you mean by this post. Even though some are asking you to expand, if you were there you know.

It's more so what happened AFTER this album and maybe you wouldn't know it the week or so the album dropped. But the months/years following the album were different because of this album. And like you i'm talking production.

 

[feelosofer]

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.

I actually agree with this, it did kill the Boom Bap sound that defined NY hip-hop up until that point, but I think it was a generational shift, that Swizz Beats sounds was definitely tuned to a younger ear, that's why the reactions to your comments are so heated, kids grew up and came to age on this shyt. But everyone on here look at me funny when I mention the early 2000's were like the dark ages to me on some production shyt and this album sorta started it.

 

[Liquid]

I always like flesh of my flesh better

 

[Liquid]

Sexy stuff this

@ that post count

 

[FreshAIG]

I remember it: Everybody thought he was Blood because he used to wear red bandanas, and always kept saying "Dog" and "Blood in Blood out" type shyt in all his songs. But he ran NY with such a frenzy it was insane. I was 15 when his first LP dropped, and he was the only person around my way way playing. Jay was seen as underneath him, at least in my hood, as far as rap goes anyway.

 

[Big Mel]

Jay was never seen as underneath DMX.

 

[FreshAIG]

Jay was never seen as underneath DMX.

IN MY HOOD, he was. I can't tell you what was going on in anyone else's block when I was 15, just my nikkas on Bedford avenue, Newkirk, Rogers avenue nikkas, Jay was seen as below DMX during that time.

 

[Reggie]

DMX was a movement in the year 98. Everybody in school was messing with X hard. When that album dropped that's all we played that last month. Then to drop that second one for an early Christmas crazy was genius marketing when u think about it. X was huge and could still be one of the heavyweights in the game but he can't leave that shyt alone.

 

[Scotch Hall]

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.

People might hate but what you saying is true though, of course most of these kids on here won't agree with you though. Nostalgia got them going, most of them were like 5 when this album dropped.

 

[Big Mel]

IN MY HOOD, he was. I can't tell you what was going on in anyone else's block when I was 15, just my nikkas on Bedford avenue, Newkirk, Rogers avenue nikkas, Jay was seen as below DMX during that time.

Your circle perhaps. Jay was in the process of cementing one of NYC's most dominant runs at that time no matter where you land on the Nas/Jay side of things. He had like 8 records on the radio at once.

and lyrically it's a blow out. No disrespect to X but c'mon now.

 

[Big Mel]

People might hate but what you saying is true though, of course most of these kids on here won't agree with you though. Nostalgia got them going, most of them were like 5 when this album dropped.

I know. That's why I'm trying to be respectful and explanatory. I also rarely take anyone under the age of early 30's perspective on the game too seriously.

But a ton of people my age & older gobbled this album up. of course the game had long gone sour and was full of robots only concerned with "exclusives".

 

[mson]

IN MY HOOD, he was. I can't tell you what was going on in anyone else's block when I was 15, just my nikkas on Bedford avenue, Newkirk, Rogers avenue nikkas, Jay was seen as below DMX during that time.

I'm also from Flatbush, and your right, when DMX came out he was at the top of the game. He wasn't the best lyricist but his energy and ferocity put him there.