It's Dark and Hell is Hot Appreciation Thread

[feelsthecitybreathin]

copped it literally for the bonus disc to hear LL's response to Canibus, then I decided to play it since I bought it and

no skippable tracks, still listen to it to this day

nikkas done started something is a monster at the gym STILL



-P-

my favorite dmx verse ever is that verse on NDSS....tore that shyt to SHREADS, perfect way to end the album

.....this aint no fukkin game....you think we playin?

ruff ryders

 

[JuvenileHell]

Realest nikka since Pac

 

[MartyMcFly]

Was just talking to a couple of my homies about this album the other day. Incredible, front to back. X had that entire year on smash but there was something special about that 98 summer...even as a 12 year old I could feel it. How's it going down came up on shuffle the other day and just reminded me how effortless X could make any type of record you needed or could ask for. It's crazy now that there's a generation who will only know X for the fukery, but dude was THE biggest MC in the game for a good 2 year span. Everything just clicked for him on this album...and I'll never forget my first time hearing Nikkas done started something' and hearing this guy who sounded like Mase but wasn't Ma$e. at my first introduction to Murda Betha

 

[FreshAIG]

i feel the same way brehs.....LOVE THIS fukkING ALBUM

the intro and outro alone

I'm saying...THAT'S MY MANS AND THEM

 

[Teko]

I still have the copy I copped in 1999 right now in the car!!! I'm still a big DMX fan and I swore I was one of the handful few left after all the fukkery he has been up to in the last couple of years.
There is something about the song Damien that makes me want to listen to it a million times - I can rap all the lyrics acapella!

 

[Ashtrey]

DMX was the last rapper I was officially a stan of. This is a Top 5 album for me. His first 3 albums are still in constant rotation.

 

[MouseTeeth]

There will never be another artist like DMX

 

[BobbyBooshay]

The intro scared me

 

[Truth200]

Got this album in school from a kid a week before it came out .....

 

[krackdagawd]

Love this fukking album.

When this shyt comes on in my workout playlist

intro alone will make you want to kick a nikka in his chest

 

[TrifeGod]

No love for the bonus CD that came with it
Some days I played the bonus CD before the album. shyt was like a appetizer

Edit

 

[SirBiatch]

The intro scared me

one of the great rap intros

"nikkaz is PUSS/ keep you runnin' from the werewolf..........AAAAH/ howlin' at the moon on da ROOF!"

straight chills

 

[aceboon]

The first album I ever bought, its what got me into rap and into actually copping music(I was 13 when it dropped). We played this shyt all summer and into the fall in the locker room during football practice, HS coach HATED that shyt, lmao. I've read Blu and Kendrick Lamar say the same shyt about it being their first album that they really loved, X shifted the culture when he dropped, I know there's a lot of 25-30ish age dudes like myself who had X as their favorite rapper before the falloff.

 

[NYtymes]

Classic.

 

[904]

I'm gonna say X is my first favorite rapper

I used rock out to this shyt in middle school.. I was passing this CD to my school bus driver and he was blasting this joint over the speakers for me