DMX - Exodus (Discussion Thread)

[head shots101]

That 1st bar for thats my dog you can tell swizz ain’t do it….then his drum patterns dropped smh

lox came on and helped that trashed beat

my wife ducks with this tape

 

[JC_USN]

I listened to it the night it dropped and I thought it was horrible.

Today, I listened to it 3 times all the way through…and yo, this shyt is actually dope as fukk.

Gotta get rid of that Moneybag Yo track though, and get rid of wack ass Jay-Z verse.

This is a solid album! Letter to my Son literally had me teared up.

 

[Hersh]

shyts dope on first listen

 

[Thief's Theme]

all songs are good to great for me

just the Swizz adlibs are annoying, and some of the copy/paste mixing sounds off and I wish there were a few tracks with just X

I love the Money Money Money beat, I don't care what anyone says

also love X's grizzly sounding verse on the track with Griselda that everyone hated

Nas has the two best verses, wish Jada was on Bath Salts

track with Alicia is another highlight for me

4 mics, but the whole thing makes me sad

 

[Pressure]

 

[The Eliminator]

So all the talk was for nothing.People will go out in droves to support that Rodrigo bytch but X gets 30k
Shame.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Anyone hating on Swizz for this project can eat a dikk too. Swizz is one of the only people on the industry who stayed in Xs corner through thick and thin. People saying “they should have got so and so for the production” well, where the fukk were all these people when X was alive? Swizz stayed reaching out to X and trying to get him in the studio and get him working. He ain’t have to do shyt. Working with X the last few years wasn’t bringing no money in. He did that shyt on the strength cause X was his homie for real.

Truth is, Grease was executive producer on X's last couple albums. They're family. Grease has been working with X for years on new music, but he and PK have had beef with Swizz over business shyt for years, over Swizz taking credit for tracks he didn't do. Grease never went anywhere. They were all working with X over the years when he was going through it. X was staying with Grease at his crib during that stretch, and the reason why they have issues, is because Swizz tries to make it seem like he's been the only one in X's corner all these years. Grease was behind all the business on X's last couple of projects and was giving X beats for free.

When X started working on this album years ago, he had tracks with Grease that they recorded at Vacant Lot. When they took the album back to Def Jam and got the budget for it, Swizz was named executive producer and cut all the tracks that Grease did off the project. He and X had done around 25-30 joints over the last few years. And that's been the issue with those two and the issue PK has with Swizz too because he blocked all of X's OG producers from the project once he got at the helm, but he brought in recycled beats from other dudes. Both Grease and PK have been online talking about this way before X passed, when Swizz flew X out to Cali to record at Snoop's spot. When Grease was executive producer on those last couple of X albums, he still brought in Swizz. When Swizz got the look, he cut both of the OG dudes out.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

^^^ that's interesting... Hopefully we get another album by Dame Grease down the road

 

[Solo_87]

So all the talk was for nothing.People will go out in droves to support that Rodrigo bytch but X gets 30k
Shame.

Olivia Rodrigo? The pop singer? Lol

I'm alil shocked at the numbers. Believe had there been some videos it would've did better

Sure his back catalog is going to put up good numbers moving forward since his passing as well

 

[Edub]

Money money money



moneybag and x crushed shyt






NAS crushed shyt

 

[Monsanto]

I lowkey fukk wit Money Money Money the beat so bad its good

Ay yoooooo



Sounds like an 16 bit RPG Castlevania joint

Dude is wild.

 

[ISO]

So all the talk was for nothing.People will go out in droves to support that Rodrigo bytch but X gets 30k
Shame.

Don’t know why y’all surprised at the numbers

 

[FreshAIG]

I thought it be more but not much more, for a few reasons

X hasn't been musically relevant for over a decade (I hate the term relevant, but whatever), so while younger people respect X, I doubt they're going out of their way to listen to his new music

Promotion has been lackluster. Mostly just been Swizz claiming it's a masterpiece and artists posting a picture of it on their IG. First single with non-mainstream artist (Griselda), where X didn't sound his best, that dropped two days before the album, and no video until after the album dropped? Just bad all-around. And I actually like Hood Blues, but it was a bad choice for a first single and they didn't even work it. It's 2021, X isn't Cole, where all you have to do is say he's dropping an album and everyone is going to be hype. You really have to work the record.

Lack of songs on the albums. There's not much to stream. There's only 10 real songs.

I can see the Bono or Alicia Keys song boosting sales down the line, they sound like big records.

 

[Black Lightning]

So all the talk was for nothing.People will go out in droves to support that Rodrigo bytch but X gets 30k
Shame.

Wow.

I thought he would do at least 100k.

 

[head shots101]

Truth is, Grease was executive producer on X's last couple albums. They're family. Grease has been working with X for years on new music, but he and PK have had beef with Swizz over business shyt for years, over Swizz taking credit for tracks he didn't do. Grease never went anywhere. They were all working with X over the years when he was going through it. X was staying with Grease at his crib during that stretch, and the reason why they have issues, is because Swizz tries to make it seem like he's been the only one in X's corner all these years. Grease was behind all the business on X's last couple of projects and was giving X beats for free.

When X started working on this album years ago, he had tracks with Grease that they recorded at Vacant Lot. When they took the album back to Def Jam and got the budget for it, Swizz was named executive producer and cut all the tracks that Grease did off the project. He and X had done around 25-30 joints over the last few years. And that's been the issue with those two and the issue PK has with Swizz too because he blocked all of X's OG producers from the project once he got at the helm, but he brought in recycled beats from other dudes. Both Grease and PK have been online talking about this way before X passed, when Swizz flew X out to Cali to record at Snoop's spot. When Grease was executive producer on those last couple of X albums, he still brought in Swizz. When Swizz got the look, he cut both of the OG dudes out.

Cats kill me with this hate talk. Why we can’t think a nikka is wack? It’s not hate I think swizz is garbage

albums would’ve probably sounded better if both grease and swizz did it

I have no hate for swizz at all that nikka actually from my hood in the Bronx