Time To Kill This Myth That DMX Had One Of The Worst Falloffs

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TheDarceKnight said:
Good post. I agree and disagree. I agree that you can't hold one up without the other, and that lowkey back in the Power of the Dollar/Guess Who's Back, and the mixtape days that 50 dropped a lot of simple but very dope gems. I think X's debut had a few more deeper songs like Look Thru My Eyes, Let Me Fly, I Can Feel It, and The Convo. GRODT had Many Men. That's not really my point. IDAHIH and GRODT both changed the landscape of the game.

The one thing I disagree with you on is the level of grittiness. They both changed directions and brought things back to a gritty level, but X's level was really dark. 50 had records like PIMP, 21 Questions, In Da Club, Blood Hound, and Like My Style. DMX's first album had songs where he rapped as the devil's son, talked about raping his enemies' 15 year old daughters in front of them, songs cursing at God with God cursing back, had songs about suicide by cop (twice, once by blowing up a building with him), multiple personality disorder on a song, and did surgeries with a chainsaw.

Jokes aside, X's first singles were Get At Me Dog and then Stop Being Greedy. The 180 that was from the shiny suit era was crazy. Plus, yeah 50 made street shyt popular again, but he was more on the "I'm a slick drug dealer, but I'll still kill you" type of style. X was really on that "I was homeless and I'll stab you to death with a tooth brush and feed you to my dogs" style.
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True,DMX shyt was gutter by all means,50 was gutter for a commercial artist musically....his dramatic backstory at the time though did escalate the realness of his music for added effect....Many Men if it was just a random rapper making that song,its not all that hard....But 50 making it under his circumstances at the time:blessed:? The realness of his situation gave the music a different feel to it.
 
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What DMX did from '97-'03 (ESPECIALLY his features from '97 till ...And Then There Was X/2000) was fukking TIMELESS. One of the best runs in rap, no fukking question.

It's not like X just one day decided fukk it I'm gonna spit a garbage ass verse and start my musical descent (we can go deep into detail about others), it was moreso his personal demons with drugs, etc etc. that led to him falling off in his personal life.

We can all mention his concerts, but X will forever be a legend to me, I mean shyt, dude RIPPED Woodstock down:





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origiNel said:
What DMX did from '97-'03 (ESPECIALLY his features from '97 till ...And Then There Was X/2000) was fukking TIMELESS. One of the best runs in rap, no fukking question.

It's not like X just one day decided fukk it I'm gonna spit a garbage ass verse and start my musical descent (we can go deep into detail about others), it was moreso his personal demons with drugs, etc etc. that led to him falling off in his personal life.

We can all mention his concerts, but X will forever be a legend to me, I mean shyt, dude RIPPED Woodstock down:





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Came in to post the Woodstock performance:blessed:

DMX is truly a legend. Damn shame how people these days don't realize how huge this guy was at a point. People like to pretend Jay-Z was running the world at that time:wtb:
 
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Love Sosa said:
Came in to post the Woodstock performance:blessed:

DMX is truly a legend. Damn shame how people these days don't realize how huge this guy was at a point. People like to pretend Jay-Z was running the world at that time:wtb:
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You sounding like a sad Nas fan, breh. Even Jay nods to the fact that he's seen a lot of people crush buildings, he's just outlived them all.

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DMX's first 4 albums were no fukking joke...that voice, the delivery, the beats...it was perfect. I play his shyt till this very day but he definitely has been MIA in the grand scheme for awhile. You know something is fukked up when little Swiss Beats is making news with Alicia Keys.
 
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VegasCAC said:
X was getting more into acting I think rather than he fell off. The money in Hollywood is ridiculous- his wife in her interview with the Breakfast Club sad he got paid 10 million each for Cradle 2 the Grave and Never Die Alone :ehh:
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Rapmastermind said:
  • US: 1,862,000 "soundscan"
It's shipped 2 Million bro, that's double. It debut at #1 with 439,000 copies sold. "The Great Depression" was the beginning of the fall off. Uneven album but had plenty of bangers. "Grand Champ" was like the last hurrah for him. But X had impact even more outside of Hip Hop as he started his movie career also.
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where's the source that it shipped 2 mil?
 
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