J’oublie a quelle age j’ai entendu la musique, la voix de DMX pour la premiere fois. Mais, je sais que j’ai aimee sa voix. It’s so distinctive. I didn’t follow his career closely but he was so corny-good in Romeo Must Die (Andrzej Bartkowiak, 2000).
I’d like to think he and Aaliyah will meet again soon in one form or energy or another…parce qu’il est mort. Il avait 50 ans, juste 50.
Are you old enough to remember, “y’all gonna make me lose my mind, up in here?” (here’s the unedited version). Peniel E. Joseph’s opinion piece for CNN reminds me how indebted to American hip-hop is Korean hip-hop (particularly old school YG Family of Jinusean and 1tym days) when he writes, “Appearing on the scene less than three years after the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG, DMX and his Ruff Ryders Crew took hip-hop and American popular culture by storm and, for a time, he emerged as perhaps the most versatile rapper-actor-entertainer in the industry.”
Et maintenant, here he is singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”: