Another of my favorite songs of all time.....I was about 14 when it came out, and even as a kid, with little idea of how my life would go, and much more personally I would relate to the song, I used to zone the fukk out listening to 'Slippin', on my way to school in my tape player or laying on the floor in my room....I fukked around with coke heavy for years as a teenager, and alcohol and pills too, so after 10 years of being clean, I feel this song even more, as someone who managed to elude those self destructive impulses, 'possessed by the darker side, living a cruddy life'....and I remember 'not keeping my haircut or gave fukk how I dressed', sitting on the couch with a fifth and a pack of cigarettes....
'if I'm strong enough to live to see my kid/doing something more constructive with they time then bids....'
'first came the bullshyt the drama with my mama......she got on some fly shyt, so I split, said I'ma be that seed that doesn't need much to succeed'
'damn....Was it my fault...something I did? To make a father leave his first kid...'
'used to get high, just to get by...used to have puff lah til 3 in the morning just to get fly'
'just another heading nowhere fast'
Those lines are like razor straight to your veins for me who spent time sniffing coke alone in his room, staying up all night drinking henny out the fifth by himself, took valium and xanax until I passed out in class, always feeling alone despite all the girls and friends around... all the dark and suicidal shyt that comes with depression and drug use, esp. at such a young age...and now, at 30, I get to live the third verse, while watching many around me spiral, including X himself, this would be in my top 25 songs of all time I think.....the haunting beat and vocals, combined with wrenching and painful lyrics, this is the essence of DMX's appeal as an artist, vulnerable and in pain, reeling from life,even himself....
And, that Meek/Future/Dave East is pretty embarrassing, you want to remake 'Slippin', fine, but give it some depth and some real pain behind it....Those verses were fairly generic street shyt, with no real substance behind it, and a sloppily crafted beat...
'if I'm strong enough to live to see my kid/doing something more constructive with they time then bids....'
'first came the bullshyt the drama with my mama......she got on some fly shyt, so I split, said I'ma be that seed that doesn't need much to succeed'
'damn....Was it my fault...something I did? To make a father leave his first kid...'
'used to get high, just to get by...used to have puff lah til 3 in the morning just to get fly'
'just another heading nowhere fast'
Those lines are like razor straight to your veins for me who spent time sniffing coke alone in his room, staying up all night drinking henny out the fifth by himself, took valium and xanax until I passed out in class, always feeling alone despite all the girls and friends around... all the dark and suicidal shyt that comes with depression and drug use, esp. at such a young age...and now, at 30, I get to live the third verse, while watching many around me spiral, including X himself, this would be in my top 25 songs of all time I think.....the haunting beat and vocals, combined with wrenching and painful lyrics, this is the essence of DMX's appeal as an artist, vulnerable and in pain, reeling from life,even himself....
And, that Meek/Future/Dave East is pretty embarrassing, you want to remake 'Slippin', fine, but give it some depth and some real pain behind it....Those verses were fairly generic street shyt, with no real substance behind it, and a sloppily crafted beat...
X would rip that nikka to pieces
