The author of the portal is not responsible for the content of comments to posts, the content of the linked sites. It cannot be considered an editorial product pursuant to law n. This portal is not a newspaper as it is updated without periodicity. ITALIAN LANGUAGE calciolife.cloud | | | sportlife.cloud | | | | | | | ENGLISH LANGUAGE art-news.space | eco-news.space | economic-news.space | family-news.space | job-news.space | motor-news.space | myhome-news.space | politic-news.space | realestate-news.space | scientific-news.space | show-news.space | sportlife.news | technology-news.space | traveller-news.space | wellness-news.space | | The song became one of the most beloved “Tunnel bangers.” ‘Ruff Ryders’ Anthem’ (1998) The video - a black-and-white affair directed by Hype Williams - was filmed at New York’s hip-hop meeting ground the Tunnel, where Funkmaster Flex held court on Sunday nights. The song not only introduced DMX the solo artist, but introduced his trademark barking and growling, sounds inspired by his beloved pitbulls. If it sounds like a mixtape rap, that’s how it started: The beat and hook were part of a freestyle for DJ Clue. “Born Loser” was not a hit, but as a punchline rap where DMX makes himself the punchline, it would foreshadow the self-eviscerating rhymes of rappers like Eminem and Fatlip: “They kicked me out the shelter because they said I smelled a/Little like the living dead and looked like Helter Skelter.” LL Cool J featuring Redman, Method Man, Canibus and DMX, ‘4, 3, 2, 1’ (1997)ĭMX recorded his debut Def Jam solo single amid the era of ’80s pop samples, big-budget videos and a general sentiment of getting “jiggy.” “I wasn’t down with all that pretty, happy-go-lucky ,” DMX said in “E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX.” He added that Sean “Puffy” Combs “had the radio on lock, the clubs on fire, had people thinking that hip-hop was all about bright lights and shiny suits and smiled all the way to the bank - X, on the other hand, still lived in the dark.” “Get at Me Dog” is pure, unfiltered rhyming over a loop of the disco-funk band B.T. For example, on his 1990 hit “Spellbound,” K-Solo raps “I s-p-e-l-l very w-e-l-l/I only spell so all can t-e-l-l.” After the success of “Spellbound,” DMX wrote this track while fuming in a Westchester prison cell. Both DMX and the rapper K-Solo had claimed a rhyme style where individual words in bars are spelled out. Soon after, “Born Loser” became the lone song released as part of DMX’s false start with Columbia Records. His shout-rap energy made him a favorite in the outwardly angsty era of Woodstock ’99 and the nü-metal band Korn’s Family Values Tour, but he was also a shirtless sex symbol moonlighting as an actor.Īfter years spent as a ruthless battle rapper, mixtape hustler and early beneficiary of The Source magazine’s Unsigned Hype column, DMX and the nascent Ruff Ryders label released the rarely heard “Born Loser” on a handful of 12-inch records. He made giant pop crossover hits, but they bubbled with wildly vivid threats better suited for a grindhouse theater. DMX cut a unique figure for a superstar rapper: He’d battle his inner demons using the horror-centric imagery beloved by heavy metal bands, but his albums reliably offered heartfelt, often a cappella, prayers to God. 1, a feat no rapper has matched before or since. Signed to Def Jam Recordings, his first five albums all debuted at No.
He spent his final days on life support at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County after suffering a heart attack on April 2.ĭMX was one of the most recognizable M.C.s in the late 1990s and early 2000s, years when hardcore New York rap could still stake a claim as hip-hop’s central concern.
Earl Simmons, the gruff, evocative rapper from Yonkers, N.Y., better known as DMX, died on Friday at 50.