Why doesn't DMX get mentioned in the same breath as big, pac, jay z, nas?

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^This faggot cant contain his emotions

Thread title says the ballerinas name like he's a good rappa on the level of big,nasir and jigga

Now shut da fucc up and stop cryin
 
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If he had died 5 years ago he would be...

The media did a great job of making him seem old, dusty, and irrelevant. Something they have never done to the rest of the people you listed
 
I always said X at his peak was better that Jay. Ya'll always talking numbers! Who remember that special mtv had about X selling 16million faster on his firdt 4 cds more than any rapper even Jay at the time. X respresents hip hop from top to bottom! Its Dark and Hell is hot cd smh it dont get to much better than that
 
DMX Was An East Coast 2Pac Clone....He Never Wowed Me Lyrically But I Like His First 2 Albums...His Gimmick Got Played Out Quick And Has His Last 3 Albums Were Doo Doo
 
nawledge_god;4713605 said:
DMX Was An East Coast 2Pac Clone....He Never Wowed Me Lyrically But I Like His First 2 Albums...His Gimmick Got Played Out Quick And Has His Last 3 Albums Were Doo Doo

always thought the same shit to.

 
(Tommy doesn't like anyone that ever dissed Jay-Z)

Anyway. DMX made some decisions that were questionable business-wise that effected his career. One of which was dissing Jay-Z, the other was leaving Def Jam.

He's been on drugs his entire career, hell he was on drugs before he became a rapper but it began to show about 2003-2004 around the time of Grand Champ and his retirement.

Dude had 4 great albums in a row and one unquestionable classic (I would say he has two but I'm a hardcore fan). But to say Dog can't rap is ridiculous, he may have fallen off but he did his thing lyrically and while being fairly basic was still superior to most.

His rhymes are reflective and introspective but still real and raw. There was no flowery language, no puffery from X:

I been through mad different phases like Masons

To find my way & now I know that happy days are not far away

If I'm strong enough I'll live long enough to see my kids

Doing something more constructive with they time

Than bids I know because I been there

Now I'm in there sit back & look

At what it took for me to get there

First came the bullshit the drama with my mama

She got on the fly shit until i split

And said that I'm gonna be that seed

That doesn't need much to succeed

Strapped with mad greed and a heart that doesn't bleed

I'm ready for the world or at least I thought I was

Baggin' niggas when I caught a buzz

For thinking about how short I was

Going too fast it wouldn't last but yo I couldn't tell

Group homes & institutions, prepare my ass for jail

They put me in a situation forcin' me to be a man

When I was just learnin' to stand without a helpin' hand

Damn, was it my fault, somethin' I did

To make a father leave his first kid at 7 doin' my first bid?

Back on the scene at 14 with a scheme

To get more cream than I'd ever seen in a dream

And by all means I will be living high off the hog

And I never gave a fuck about much but my dog

That's my only motherfucker I had offered my last

Just another little nigga headed nowhere fast ("Slippin")

will spend mad time in one spot, plotting my next move

Trying to figure out what is it, that X do what X do

Some questions go unanswered, that's what I'm afraid of

Sometimes I can't show, but I know what I'm made of

They made love, or should I say they made lust

Bound, there didn't have to be love there, but they made us

I got quite a few sisters, I was the only boy

But being with my dog, was my only joy

Like a kid with a new toy, I forgot about the ?

Escaped the misery, didn't think about the crime

Lost all track of time, was in another world

Everybody knew Earl, but there was another Earl

Like the side of the dark, riding the park but wouldn't want to

when they jump me, became a good runner

One by one they all went under, so I had the last laugh

They all thought it all was a joke, but I had the last laugh ("Coming From")

His demons overcame him and he didn't have much staying power but dude set the bar high as fuck and had shit locked up til '03. Dude was creative, brought great energy, charismatic, down to earth and realistic.
 
It's Dark and Hell is Hot was ill as fuck.

Anyway, no one in their right mind should have him close to a top 5 list, that's why.
 
Dmx drug demons kept him from that discussion. He dropped a classic game chaining album, followed it up with a great album, was a part of a movement but couldn't sustained it once the movement died down and his drug habit got the best of him musically
 
Perfect;4713999 said:
every great rapper dont gotta be top 5/10/whatever...

but smh @ the blasphemy in this thread. fickle fuck ass IC Reason heads as usual

Blasphemy? People are giving him credit for releasing a damn near classic debut.
 
Jamaica said:
DMX was a superstar for 4 or 5 years from the late 90's through the early 00's. He's considered a legend but never was considered top 5. He was arguably the biggest rapper in the late 90's. He was very influential as well. Why you think he doesn't get that type of recognition?

he only had 3 good albums then everything else was medicore to trash he also disgraced himself with the bs and shananigans

 
x's first 2 albums are great. His third was average tho.folk seem to like to focus on the negative but I remember X music wise for realness emotion and soul...
 
Give me one remarkable X line.

I like X but, a grown man barking and growling is not lyrical.

Slippin was his most lyrical record
 

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