LAD was damn near complete and did not shoe horned a lot of rappers just to capitalize off of a fallen rapper.
I know folks are going to blinded by the hype which they should because "DMX", but when you have fukking "Bono" on the album, it comes off as a cash op for a fallen GOAT.
In the immortal words of Jadakiss:
"You know dead rappers get better promotion"
DMX said most of the album was complete BEFORE he died and he mentioned Bono amongst his collaborators so….