The song was released as a third single in its edited form as "What You Want", to moderate radio airplay and a high-budget video from director Hype Williams. Typical DMX tracks include the obligatory ladies track, "What These Bitches Want", featuring smooth vocals from R&B star Sisqó. The album also featured more meaningful, introspective tracks such as "Fame" and " Here We Go Again", a heartfelt account of an emotional dispute with his protege, 'shorty', who 'fucks up big time', forcing X to leave him to fend by himself in the streets. The second single was popular club / party anthem "Party Up (Up in Here)", which increased album sales significantly.
It also reached #1 on the Billboard chart yet again, firmly ranking DMX within hip hop's only artist to have all 3 (eventually, leading up to 5) of their albums reach the #1 spot. The album sold very well selling roughly 698,000 in its first week and went on to be certified 5x Platinum making it DMX's best-selling album to date. The first single of the album, the club banger 'What's My Name' was released, which got heavy rotation on both radio and television. ''…And Then There Was X'' is the third album by American rapper DMX, released on December 21, 1999. He died on 9 April, 2021.Deceiver (Bone With Pink Splatter) īlues Essentials (Gold) (Gate) (Gol)ĭistant Populations But whether ferocious, amped up, or introspective, the MC remained grounded by his faith, which, especially in the later years of his career, he approached with nothing short of absolute devotion. And Then There Was X, where even the anthemic “Party Up” served as a prime example of DMX's uniquely intense take on hardcore hip-hop. Though the rapper’s two sides may seem to have been at odds, he always thrived when he let his emotions fly unrestrained. DMX would revisit that sensitivity on the heartfelt “Slippin’”, from 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, which found him expressing a desire to live a less tumultuous life. But X scaled back the pugnacity on that same album’s introspective “How’s It Goin’ Down”, which featured R&B singer Faith Evans and painted a picture of a complex relationship headed down the wrong path.
On his 1998 debut, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, DMX's aggressive vocals projected his imposing presence across songs like the minimal, clanging “Get at Me Dog” and rowdy breakout “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem". Born Earl Simmons in 1970, the Yonkers-raised MC arrived as the physical embodiment of unbridled energy-a one-man distillation of fellow rugged New York acts like Wu-Tang Clan. With DMX, a man blessed with a vicious bark of a voice, there was no such thing as half-stepping.
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