J. Cole is a rapper who treads that thin line between being both intellectual and gangsta, if you will. Or as the album “She Knows” is derived from puts it, he is a “born sinner”. Within...
There are two main characters in this song, “Damien” and DMX himself. The name of the former was inspired by the Omen movie series where the fictional Damien is basically the personification of the devil on earth. But within the lyrics of...
When a person is seriously under the impression that they have religious calling on their life, such is not a light matter. Indeed with any other vocation they may take up, there would still...
For readers who don’t know, Ruff Ryders is actually a record label. They were one of the biggest players in the game as far as hip-hop music was concerned around the turn of the century....
“Where the Hood At?” starts off with an intro where DMX is lambasting “n*g*as” who think he fell off. During the turn of the century X was by far one of the hottest rappers in...
DMX is an artist who, as a musician, is known primarily for dropping amped-up party anthems. But long-time fans of the rapper also know that when he was first establishing a name for himself he...
During his heyday DMX was a hype rapper, i.e. a hype man and a rapper rolled into one. And like Snoop Dogg out west, he was able to capitalize on what we will refer to...
