DMX - Exodus (Discussion Thread)

[AMcV'88]

hope it does well for X's family... but I'll never listen to anything off this again.

of course after years of build Bath Salts is horrible. no Jada verse, and a weird mix of old and new verses.
that Jay verse is def from Blueprint 3 and MDTF era sessions...its bad and Nas rapping about fukkin Akademiks



how do these two manage to disappoint me twice in the space of what ? a month.

 

[spliz]

Just started listening from the top.

Never thought I'd say this, but 'Bath Salts' could actually have done with Swizz talking his 'ZONEZONEZONE!!!!' shyt on the intro given the fact we had Nas, Jay and X on the same track.

It deserved more than a four bar instrumental intro

Nasir went off though

He took the hook off of it. Swizz butchered the song. Song has mad versions. Lol.

 

[spliz]

yeah, I'll never listen to anything off this again.

of course after years of build Bath Salts is horrible. no Jada verse, and a weird mix of old and new verses.
that Jay verse is def from Blueprint 3 and MDTF era sessions...its bad and Nas rapping about fukkin Akademiks



how do these two manage to disappoint me twice in the space of what ? a month.

nikka u fukkin buggin Nas blacked on that shyt and he ain’t talking about Akademiks. He said one line and it made sense. And this is like the 4th version of Bath Salts.

 

[spliz]

the jay, nas song first surfaced during that swizz/just blaze battle ..and I believe that was close to 5 years ago...and it was “unreleased” then so it was probably recorded like a year or 2 before that lol ..probably when the “bath salt zombie” gimmick was a thing on the net..which I think was like 2013

Nas spit a new verse. The original song was a Nas song for LIG and it had 3 Nas verses. It then got gutted and it was Nas, Jay, Jadakiss, and DMX. Swizz then gutted this shyt again and removed the hook and Nas did a new verse for it.

 

[spliz]

X had the best verse on bath salts though. Increasing his overall record vs Jay to about 5-1 and I'd say his record vs Nas is 3-1 but its closer to 2-2

No he didn’t. But him and Nas outdid Jay clearly on that joint.

 

[SwizzLake]

The Album is terrible but I hope it does well for DMX family so they can eat from it...

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

damn is this album that bad?

 

[BK The Great]

This wasn't on here i think, i mess with this.

 

[spliz]

damn is this album that bad?

No

 

[DarkandHellisHot]

This wasn't on here i think, i mess with this.

that one it's from "its dark and hell is hot". they put all the prayers up after or when X was in the hospital. i dont rememer now the exact moment

 

[BK The Great]

that one it's from "its dark and hell is hot". they put all the prayers up after or when X was in the hospital. i dont rememer now the exact moment

Oh ok thought it was something new for a second.

 

[jensyao]

the real question is...how many posthumous albums does X have in the stash for years to come? and please don't have swizz executive produce anything....his estate should be the executive producers

 

[BK The Great]

This is basically DMX's "Recovery'' album like when Eminem dropped his from overcoming what he went thru, expect X didn't make it. Original fans won't mess with the mainstream stuff since it does sound a little too pop-ish but it balances out the harder tracks. It's a mixed bag album. I'd give it a 7.5/10 off a few listens. Not bad but i'm not sure how much replay value i'll get out of it but it's cool.

 

[spliz]

the real question is...how many posthumous albums does X have in the stash for years to come?

Not many. X pulled from his past bag for a lot of his albums in the first base. Dating back to the first one. I doubt we have a whole lot of posthumous shyt we haven’t heard already.

 

[Awesome Wells]

This album isn't good.

As much as I love X, this album doesn't do his legacy any justice. Swizz is my guy, but he shouldn't have been the person at the helm of this one. He threw a Jay acapella on here that's easily 10-11 years old. The mixing on here is wild subpar. They rushed the process and had people give them old and unused acapellas that were spliced together and thrown on beats that aren't that great either. Which is why so many people sound off-beat. This isn't the level of quality that X deserved, and Swizz should've chilled on throwing this out so quickly.

I think this was definitely a cash grab. This is basically a Khaled album, in the name of DMX. Forced attempt at memorializing him. He should've gotten a much better send-off than this.