Between April 3rd and 8th, they were streamed between 3 and 4 million times a day. Before his hospitalization on April 2nd, the songs were streamed between 700,000 and 1 million times per day. “Party Up” and “How It’s Goin’ Down” streams respectively increased 941 percent and 691 percent.ĭMX’s music was streamed at an increase in the days leading up to his death. “Slippin” was streamed 5.52 million times, up 853 percent from the days before. “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” was streamed 5.79 million times, up 900 percent. X’s hit single “Ruff Ryders Anthem” was streamed over 9 million times, up 973 percent from the days before. The 75.7 million on-demand streams (counting both audio and video) on April 9th and 10th dwarfed the 7.36 million streams they earned on April 7th and 8th. On Tuesday, the trend continued as Billboard reported that the streaming numbers for DMX‘s catalog have increased 928 percent following his death on April 9th. In the days of streaming services, post-mortem streaming rises are the norm.
All rights reserved.Photo Credit: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Fans streamed music from DMX’s catalog at an increase of nearly a thousand percent following his death. I'm surprised that he doesn't get that kind of credit here and what I'm hearing are hipster arguments to why he sucks.Ĭopyright © 2020 Washington Football Team.
He's probably somewhere close to that for me though. I'm not saying he is in line to be best overall or really even top 10. I think what he rapped about on his first two albums reflect the life he was living. His early work was some of the best in rap in my opinion. I see him as a rugged rapper from the streets that wasn't ever able to escape the streets. It has been a passion of mine since I was 13 and for someone to tell me DMX is one of the best rappers ever is an insult.I don't see DMX as a gimmick. There is very little that I can say I am knowledgeable about. Great emcees can cover multiple subjects with- from social commentary to self-reflection to simple braggadocio. No, it's the same street thug **** with, "bark bark grrrr where my dawgs at?!" Please. What is DMX's subject matter? Has he ever spit a dope double entendre or simile. Forget the, "white suburban teenager," part. I understand the complex style of hiphop but come on man at least make it interesting, where is the versitiltiy DMX spit with fire and passion one of the most enjoyable rappers to listen to you. IMO if you want to be top 10 you have to appeal to main and underground I am very suprised you ain't say Tech 9 and 50 other undergound rappers. I could name 50 other MCs EASILY that outshine DMX in every aspect of rapping.Ĭommon is BORING, Ghostface never liked him imo he is horrible, GZA come on man better than Pharoahe, Aceyalone, MF Doom and whatever weak ass underground rapper you want to bring out.
3rd song on dmx albums crack#
Then he started smoking crack and fell the **** off.īlack Thought, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, KRS One, Kool G Rap, Pharoahe Monch, Ghostface Killah, Common, GZA, Aceyalone, MF Doom.that's 10 MCs better than him without even thinking. DMX was a good mainstream rapper who spit with vigor and passion, but his topic matter rarely varied and his production was hit or miss. Sicksoulja I'm guessing you don't know much about hip hop.
However, there is much more to rap than that. If you're going off of showmanship, sure.
Respected.but no where near being a top 20/30 MC. I'd honestly lump DMX with rappers like Ja Rule. It'd be extremely hard to put DMX in the top 10. When he put on a show the man gave it everything he had, the guy lived the life pretty much he rapped about his entire career. DMX is a top 10 MC imo and shouldn't make it out the top 20 from most peoples list. I am by no way saying he is better than Biggie cause he is NOT or even Em I was just using them to the only had 3 good album claim most everyone replyed with to knock the man down. There was NOONE and I mean NO ONE that brought the passion that DMX did when he was on top, Its Dark and Hell is Hot is CRAZY! Flesh of my Flesh Blood of my blood was HOT! Then there was X was good and The Great Depression was also good, everything after that I agree the drugs knocked him right off the map but don't discredit the mans work, your talking about 7 years of being the top MC. Ememim had 2 great albums Slim Shady and Marshall LP then his **** went down hard so is he not in the top 30? I keep hearing how he dropped off after the 3rd album **** Biggie had 2 good albums (yes life was cut short), and NAS other than Illmattic the rest of his **** was very lacking for awhile. Its a mixture of a tough crowd here and people who smoked more than DMX to not consider the man top 30 hell some said not even top 50 WTF.