No other rapper exerts quite as much energy as Def Jam heavyweight DMX. With his adrenaline-pumped hip-hop anthems, Yonkers-native DMX has taken the hip-hop industry by storm. His third album And Then There Was X comes only one year after his highly-anticipated second album Flesh Of My Flesh..., which came only six months after his multi-platinum debut It's Dark And Hell Is Hot. Yet DMX remains on the cutting edge of rap.
The first single ΓÇ£What's My Name?ΓÇ¥ shows the power of the Ruff Ryder-frontman. He keeps his voice and character consistent with his last contributions, and the Swizz Beats-produced tracks back up his rhymes with more of that same energetic flavor. On ΓÇ£What Y'all Bitches Want,ΓÇ¥ X flips the script on the females, shouting out over 40 girls' names. His rough-edged lyrics and spit-fire delivery will leave his ΓÇ£dogsΓÇ¥ foaming at the mouth for more. Though X is backed by one of hip-hop's most prominent crews (the Ruff Ryders), the platinum pitbull proves he can hold his own and then some.
DMX: All recordings courtesy of Island/Def Jam and Boomer X Publishing/Ruff-Ryders-Dead Game Publishing (ASCAP). ΓÇ£WhatΓÇÖs My NameΓÇ¥ written by E. Simmons, I. Lorenzo and E. Hinson. ΓÇ£One More Road To CrossΓÇ¥ written by E. Simmons and K. Dean. ΓÇ£Here We Go AgainΓÇ¥ written by E. Simmons, M. Gomez.
