Was DMX's Use To Be My Dawg Bout Ja/Hov?

[Millions]

i still bump this every day when im off da gas....Styles P spazzed out and X last verse

 

[DarkmanX]

Was always alleged to be about Ja, but i dont know.

Very little chances of it being about Jay-Z though, i believe.

 

[DarkmanX]

Btw, it was also said that "We Different" on that Murder Inc compilation that dropped around 2000, which funny enough had some solo tracks with Dmx (off the strength of Gotti i believe) & some solid/dope trax from the Murder Inc crew, it was said that they were going at people like Styles P/The Lox & DMX off the strength off that "We Dont Give A fukk" joint.

Forgot which verse in specific it was though, think it was Ja's though.

 

[Hope]

Great album, classic track, but that hook always bothered me.

Didn't hear it being about anybody in particular.

 

[RNS]

They said it was about Ja. If I remember correct, X hinted at it in an old interview.

Edit: I remember X felt like Ja was biting his style and that's why he went at his neck

 

[Millions]

Btw, it was also said that "We Different" on that Murder Inc compilation that dropped around 2000, which funny enough had some solo tracks with Dmx (off the strength of Gotti i believe) & some solid/dope trax from the Murder Inc crew, it was said that they were going at people like Styles P/The Lox & DMX off the strength off that "We Dont Give A fukk" joint.

Forgot which verse in specific it was though, think it was Ja's though.

 

[boskey]

Listening now and it’s 100 percent about Ja Rule. Styles verse was foul if he didn’t have his own issues with him lol

“nikkas look like they phony, sound like they phony”

Then he threatened him with a broomstick

 

[BulletProof]

This was way later of course when Jay became president of Def Jam but interesting that's what came to his mind.

Always heard it was about Ja.

 

[Yehuda]

Listening now and it’s 100 percent about Ja Rule. Styles verse was foul if he didn’t have his own issues with him lol

“nikkas look like they phony, sound like they phony”

Then he threatened him with a broomstick

"He's using your style, that make him your child then he shouldn't make a move 'til he hear it from your mouth" man Styes is A1 when it comes to conveying pure disgust on wax.

 

[Yehuda]

Was always alleged to be about Ja, but i dont know.

They said it was about Ja.

“You used to be my dawg, you was in my left titty.”

It was 1998, when that line first became recognized as the hook on DMX’s “We Don’t Give a fukk,” a notable cut off his second top-selling album of the same year Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. The album was as much historic as it was controversial. On one end, it made X the first rapper to drop two No. 1 albums in the same year and cemented him as a certified superstar. On the other end, there was controversy — behind the scenes at least.

At the time, Queens rapper Ja Rule struck a buzz with his breakout single “Holla Holla,” which was the lead single to his debut album, Venni Vetti Vecci. Interestingly enough, the song drew widespread comparisons to DMX, who was not pleased. “So now, X is starting to go at him, he’s telling me “Gotti, he’s biting my shyt,” Irv Gotti, who happened to produce “Holla Holla” and also pal of X, told N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs. “I’m like X, you wilding out nikka. He says, “Everyone thinks this “Holla Holla” record is mine. His voice sound like mine.”

In response, X later secured some beats from Gotti for his second planned release of the year, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, and that’s when the things turned interesting. “I did two records on Flesh Is My Flesh,” Gotti recalled, before admitting that one of the songs happened to be “We Don’t Give A fukk.” That record, which also featured X’s labelmates Jadakiss and Styles P of The Lox, featured subliminal shots at Ja Rule. Over the dark production, he snaps back with lines like, “I let you get too close and you bit me, I’m still mad at myself for lettin that shyt go down / Somebody shoulda told me, I was fukkin wit a clown.”

According to Gotti, he realized the record was a diss when he sat in the studio with X. “So I make this record, give X the beat, I’m in the studio and as soon as I hear it, I know he’s on the bullshyt. He’s shytting on Rule in that record,” Gotti revealed, before later sharing Rule’s reaction. “[Now] Rule’s my artist and my brother. Here’s what I do, after he does it, I’m in my truck, Rule’s in the backseat. I said Rule, “I ain’t using the record.” He’s like, “What you talking about?” I’m telling him we not putting that record on the album and he goes, “Play the record.” I said, “Rule, you may not want to hear this record.” So now, I play the record and the record is making me uncomfortable because I know exactly what X is doing.”

After playing the record, Gotti said Rule had six words for the matter: “He want it, we gon’ do it!.”

'Drink Champs': Irv Gotti on the time he accidentally produced a Ja Rule diss record for DMX

I mean unless "Holla Holla" was already out circulating through mixtapes in 1998 his timeline is off but whatever. The song was about Ja.

 

[DontEemTry]

The funny thing is Styles verse is the only one that seems directed directly at Ja, while X is more ambiguous and just sounds like regular battle bars

 

[up in here]

There’s a whole other story DMX once told about it.

He said he arrived at a club that Ja was already at and Ja was in the back. Ja sent one of his little dudes to go get X and tell X to come to the back where Ja was at. X took it as an insult because he felt like Ja should have come to X not the other way around.

I think this was after some subs were already thrown around but before anyone really knew it was a problem, but this incident X took as real life disrespect, not just some rap shyt.

 

[Complexion]

X went at Rule quite a few times:











Then he got his Rick James on:






In a nutshell he felt he was sharking his style and not paying him the respect due.