May 28, 2021

This is funny af

DMX pimping out a rental car

“He’s the same person who rented a car and then f---ing bought rims to put on a rented car — rims, put tint, wrapped the car,” Swizz Beatz told HipHopDX. “I said, ‘Dog, you rentin’ the car. What you doing?’

“He said, ‘Ah it’s mine right now. When I give it back to them, if they want to take it off, f--- it.’ He rented a car and decked it out like it was his. Like he just didn’t even care.”

https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.62371/...pimping-out-a-rental-car-x-was-just-different

Also says “X was a real serious people. He was getting in trouble for stupid s---. He was a teddy bear. He was a good guy."

 

May 28, 2021

From what I saw he has one mixtape (Simply titled Mixtape) released in 2010 and The Weigh in is an EP.

According to Wiki which is not always correct..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX_discography

 

May 28, 2021

Yea, not sure about that Mixtape mixtape lol What a name. Stellar marketing. The site I checked listed it as bootleg. And I think it might be, because of tracks from that unreleased album being on there. Well, at least one track. But again, who knows...

• Date First Available : March 23, 2010
• Manufacturer : Siccness.net

Just checked discogs.com which is an amazing site,

(LP, Promo, Unofficial)

Maybe all these posts will inspire people to re-visit some of DMX's older work. After the first 6 albums but before Undisputed and before this new album. And of course if people go all the way back, that's always classic material.

 

May 28, 2021

Looks like X mostly recorded when he was working on an album. And a lot of the stuff that he did actually made it to the albums.

He barely has any side projects and the few that he has don't even look official and were never talked about.

From the looks of it, he doesn't seem to have that much stuff in the vault either. That's the impression I got at least. Especially for someone who's career spands 25 years.

Just look at the amount of matetial Pac had from the short time he was alive.

But X did spend an incredible amount of time struggling with drugs and dealing with the justice. So that could have a lot to do with it also.

 

May 28, 2021

If you mean the 2009/2010 period, that's not exactly right. Some of the material made its way over to Undisputed. Not all of it, but some. The album I keep talking about was scheduled, official. With a released Tentative Tracklist. But just judging by the amount of extra tracks from three bootleg mixtapes from around that time, he recorded a lot of material. He clearly intended to come back that summer in 2010. That was suppose to have been the grand comeback. Then I have no idea what happened. Tracks got leaked? Album was scrapped... who knows why. And by the time he regrouped and he came back with Undisputed, it was too late. I think every review I ever read for that album said it was a mixed bag. He sounded tired, unlike himself already. He still sounded decent 2009/2010 period. Not mumbling his words. He had this plan for a double disk, a risky affair. One CD was clearly RAW and Street, the second album was Dramatic and Religious. With Swizz confirming its existence in that recent interview, I hope we do get it, that way I can listen to both back to back and see what I feel, pretend its 2010 and gage and impact of something of this scope. Risky for sure. A whole second half thats religious based... interesting.

 

May 28, 2021

I meant during his career as a whole. That's why I said 25 years.

For someone who's been around for so long he doesn't seem to have that much stuff stashed away. You would imagine he'd have a s--- ton of unreleased material, especially from the period that he was active 1998-2006.

But i didn't get the impression that he has that much in the vault. Everything unreleased that Swizz talked about seemed to be more recent stuff he's talkinh about. Like s--- X did in the last 10-12 years.

 

May 28, 2021

Most artists have at least 10 songs that didn't make the album for each album.

X has 6 albums from 1998 to 2006. Even if he has as little as 5 songs per album that didn't make the cut, that's still 30 songs from his prime.

You take Eminem for example. Pretty sure he did like 100 songs for Relapse. I remember hearing some crazy number. And you know he must scrap like 20 songs per album.

But maybe this is a record label issue. If X does have some unreleased stuff from that period it probably belongs to Def Jam. So maybe that's why Swizz doesn't mention it...

 

May 29, 2021

Missed that part, but I agree. There might be something but I doubt it's a vast collection of unreleased material.

 

May 29, 2021

Eminem, even The Game, tend to record tons of songs. If Eminem retired today, he could probably still give us album after album. Dre said they have 100s of collabo songs. Relapse 2. You name it. It's somewhere stashed away. Who knows if it will ever see the light of day.

 

May 29, 2021

https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.62382/...s-why-pop-smoke-didnt-make-dmxs-exodus-album#

This is hilarious... LOL I like how Swizz talks about X not wanting old verses, yet that song has a chorus that was an old X verse from 2013... I swear Swizz is hypocritical and not consistent with some of his interviews.

 

May 29, 2021

consensus seems mixed on here? I thought this was pretty good. Seems a bit unfinished being so feature-heavy and incomparable to X's peak but its a good send-off imo

 

May 29, 2021

very mid. Kind of what I expected though so not complaining

 

May 29, 2021

Oh i'm fully aware that a lot of them are not completed songs. But even if the song is let's say 60% done, that's still something to work with.

I'm also 100% sure any accomplished artist who puts out an album has at least 5 completed songs they decided not to put on the album. Some they might have kept for later or never released.

As for "the songs that got scrapped got scrapped for a reason". That's not always the truth. Taste in music varies. And what the label thinks shouldn't make it on the album might be the best song for someone else.

Since I gave Eminem as an example. Just look at the bonus tracks on some of his albums. Some are better than most of what's on the actual album.

Relapse Refill for instance. He could have chose not to put that out and move on. But he put it out and it s----s on most of the original Relapse.

Another good example is the tracks Koolo leaked. Cocaine is imo one of the best songs Em did post hiatus. And it was were never supposed to see the light of day.

You're right that some of songs that got scrapped are probably sh--. But that's not the case for all.

 

May 29, 2021

Not to s--- on DMX, but if there is indeed a full solo Nas version of 'Bath Salts' then I wanna hear that.

 

May 29, 2021

Really wish letter to my son had a second verse instead of that bridge or whatever after the usher hook

 

May 30, 2021

I read somewhere that Jay z used to put people to sleep after DMX performance and he used to mess with red and mef mics so they can't put out a better show them him.

 

May 30, 2021

According to early predictions from Hits Daily Double, Exodus is expected to move between 28,000 to 32,000 total album-equivalent units, with 12,000 to 14,000 of those coming from pure album sales.

 

May 30, 2021

thank you to this thread taking letter to my son with it that s--- was fucken beautiful the outro d---