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I wouldn't mind if Will does an inspirational book, I'd prefer if he stuck with talking about his entertainment career but he has one of the wisest minds, sure some of his social media stuff is a bit outlandlish sometimes but who's perfect? His whole career is in the spotlight, none of us are perfect, I'm sure if we all here had that much fame people would criticize us too.... I know if I look back at some posts I made on here 10 years ago at this date I might find it hypocritical too...Btw for all those talking ish about his marriage with Jada how many hip hop artists in the entertainment been married for almost 25 years in the industry? Most entertainers been married like 3 times in that span at the minimum...People rave about how big of a power couple that Jay-Z and Beyonce are but they weren't even married half of that time and they've had their drama too....

I know over the years there's been a lot of talk about DMX's addiction struggles and it caused many of his so called fans to abandon him until yesterday when he passed away where a lot of the fans want to jump on the bandwagon and play his music for the first time in 20 years it seems but he's one of my favorite of all time, I basically felt everything this man ever dropped, he's been a true man of God and the messages he delivered have been theraputic for me and my ups and downs in life, I haven't struggled with addiction but I've been dealing with the mental health aspect for over a decade I'm bold enough to admit, I reach out for help and the struggle is real. For me as a true hip hop head I've been listening to him since the start of his career when he appeared on LL Cool J's "4, 3, 2, 1" when I was 12 years old in the 7th grade and when he released his "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot" CD in Spring of 1998 after I turned 13 years old it was one of the first hip hop CD I ever owned, it's a top 5 hip hop debut album to me dead or alive that you could bump from start to finish, the popular songs like "Ruff Ryders Anthem", "How's It Going Down" and "Get At Me Dog" are most memorable to fans but "Let Me Fly" and "I Can Feel It" really penetrate my soul. After that masterpiece classic debut album he dropped many more great masterpieces but the album that sticks out to me the most was "The Great Depression" in October of 2001 it was released around the time of Aaliyah's death and 9*11*2001 so it was prophetic in a poetic sense my favorite song from that record will always be "I Miss You" because my grandmother Claire was getting sick with cancer around the time of the album release and she passed away on December 16, 2001 and the video for the song was released I forever am grateful that he released that video and song as a single to me it's as real as Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and James Brown "Papa Don't Take No Mess", real music from the spirit, that encouraged me to take writing my own music more serious than just a fun hobby I did at school with my friends, I dedicate my career in music to my late grandmother and now the late DMX and other true artists. Now on deeper in his career in the summer of 2006 DMX released his first non Def Jam album "Year Of The Dog Again..." after 5 straight #1 albums (even pop artists like Britney Spears didn't do that, very impressive from a gritty hip hop artist from the street life to me he's the Malcolm X of hip hop, a conflicted individual with spiritual insight), even though it fell short of going #1 on the charts by a small margin to a Now compilation album it's near the top of my all time favorite hip hop albums since 2000 especially for the song "Lord Give Me A Sign" and the deep album cuts "Life Be My Song" and "Goodbye", it had a deeper meaning for me because the winter of 2006/2007 was when I was going in and out of the hospital getting mental health treatment for the first time in my life that music got me through and pushed me to keep going and I was motivated to keep emceeing, I had a bad reaction from a staph infection, and on top of that I was heartbroken from the losses of 2 musical icons in Gerald Levert and James Brown and the relationship with somebody that I thought I was gonna marry one day(we're friends today but we can't be nothing more than that because you can forgive but you can't truely forget)went sour since she judged me for my mental health struggles like many do because of the stigma but I realised who my real circle of close peeps were after that moment in my life. Now 5 years later in 2012 X dropped his comeback album in that fall called undisputed, I was praying for a big comeback even though it was an independent release I felt he was the real hip hop artist that could revive commercial hip hop again from the fake rappers like Cash Money and Rick Ross among countless others but the album was a commercial flop his lowest selling album but the album hit hard the single "I Don't Dance" featuring Machine Gun Kelly to me felt like it would be the 2012 summer smash cause it felt like a hard hitting anthem but it felt sad that most his fans basically abandoned him like so many of the great hip hop artists(obviously my man KRS One has dropped at least 15 albums in the last 20 years none went gold which proves hip hop truely is dead cause this man is the epitome of real hip hop besides the handful like DMX who join the realest like Pac, Jam Master Jay, Aaliyah, Left Eye, and Heavy D in hip hop heaven now) we don't celebrate the great hip hop artists while they're alive the GOAT LL Cool J has been waiting damn near 15 years for the Rock and Roll hall of fame, no offense to Biggie and Jay Z but they damn well ain't near his level. Anyway enough with my rant but to me the heart of "Undisputed" that touched my soul was the deep album cuts "The Prayer", "Slippin Again", and "Head Up" after I was hospitalized again that summer of 2012 for my mental health because I was heartbroken over my father's oncoming Alzheimers and dementia issues that forced my family to put him in a nursing home after new years of 2012, those songs really got me through and helped me write my most motivated song to date "I Never Give Up" and if I ever win a Grammy one day I'm thanking DMX for changing my life so many times, I salute you Ruff Ryder OG, REST IN PEACE, 1970-2021 FOREVER, GOD BLESS, ONE LOVE FROM BIG TED....

rest in paradise, WOW

gospel playlist on iheart, we need uplifting music in these times...

PE, BUSTA, NAS, LL(NO NEW ALBUM YET BUT THAT ILLEGAL SEARCH IS TIMELESS), N KRS ARE RESURECTING HIP HOP, COME ON JJFP...

I GOT IT OFF OF AMAZON, CAN'T STOP LISTENING, ONE LEGENDARY ALBUM FROM THE BDP EMCEE

Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPM6ZJ75ptQ SHAQ you cant stop the reign album one of the top mid 90s albums, he's a great baller and mc he could slam on Ewing and out last wack mcs

this is not his greatest song, he's still the best emcee of real hip though, between him, LL, Chuck D, BUSTA, NAS, FP, ICE T, DRE, N CUBE they're on top n aging gracefully

well its been a hard year for me but im gonna try posting more often again ll cool j 10 album, would've did get rich or die tryin sales if properly promoted in 2003, my favorite album then

one of the realest....

busta rhymes back in hip hop is great news for a lot of us in this hard 2020, a lot of people sleep on him, always one of my favs

they took it back with the new album the best album of the century since ll cool j's goat album

yeah i heard about that, kanye is a damn fool and so is anyone that still listens to him

caught in the middle love and life is underrated but the whole album is classic

Chuck d is now almost 60 years old and is still very powerful

This is great but I still want more with Jeff...

Ronald isley dinner and a movie

Montell Jordan this is how we do it album

Steve Harvey morning show

Cnn si mulcast staying informed about the cova-19 stay well peeps

Prayers for Jeff and us all

Mc hammer pleaae hammer don't hurt em happy birthday hammer

Big daddy Kane long live the Kane album

Raki m the seventh seal album