Reacting to "It's Dark and Hell is Hot" by DMX
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Whole video process takes longer now due to the new camera producing larger files when recording (higher resolution). Sorry for the delay, though expect 3pm PST to be more of the norm until I upgrade the ol' PC.
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Lol you would think it would be an argument to cover songs shorter than 30 seconds but then I could see bands just adding 10 second songs to albums to inflate numbers so...
Scott Watrous
2022-10-11 04:36:16 +0000 UTCNice 🤘
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 03:17:36 +0000 UTCYeah, this is definitely a collection of one offs, and nothing wrong with that. They all stand on their own feet, which is a testament too how good DMX is at making tracks. I was watching some interviews where he says he put some together in 10-15 minutes. Very impressive
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 03:17:18 +0000 UTCoh interesting
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 03:14:35 +0000 UTCThanks man :)
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 03:14:10 +0000 UTCIt's been sad learning about it
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 03:10:36 +0000 UTCIt does seem that way, like he's writing down his own chaotic daydreams/nightmares
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 02:56:15 +0000 UTCI wanna hear that
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 02:55:44 +0000 UTCIt's unbelievable what he went through as a kid... like he grew up in a warzone
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 02:52:26 +0000 UTCYup, I don't think it'd be received as well today. Which is a good thing in some ways, it shows society has shifted
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 02:51:00 +0000 UTC:D
Bob_the_Poppop
2022-10-11 02:50:03 +0000 UTCYou look younger with the new camera 😆
Pablo Esquvar
2022-10-10 22:07:04 +0000 UTCRip DMX
Isaiah Muhammad
2022-10-09 11:54:32 +0000 UTCPutting in another vote towards reacting to Onyx. Their 2nd album is my fave but can't go wrong with any of the first 3.
snooza
2022-10-09 03:29:54 +0000 UTCBOB!!! this new camera is AMAZING!
nydeak
2022-10-09 01:55:59 +0000 UTCNew camera looks fantastic
Jack Lane
2022-10-09 00:42:12 +0000 UTCIt’s hard to explain how impactful/important this album is in hip hop history. I think too often you’re looking for a concise story or feeling or this one thing that ties an album together for it to be great. This albums is many things at once. As I said before Get At Me Dog Greedy Niggaz Done Started Something Ruff Ryders Anthem Are stand alone tracks. They are one offs. All are undeniably rap CLASSICS. Niggaz Done Started Something is considered one of the best posse cuts of all time. In an era when you had to have a posse cut on your album. Those guys you didn’t want to hear are the LOX & Ma$e. The best rap group of all time if not top 5 and Ma$e who sold 5 million copies of his first album 6 months before this album came out and 6 months after Biggie died for the same label and Diddy. Also, the LoX left Diddy to join Dmx & The Ruff Ryders. X is coming, Damien, Let Me Fly, Look Through My Eyez, Prayer etc were therapy songs. Songs that connected with those that faced drug addiction, depression & poverty. It was the feeling and the pain that connected people to Dmx. Look up Jay-Z talks about DMx he sums it up well.
DJ Avenger
2022-10-08 22:15:12 +0000 UTCCamera looks great, great video Bobby
IDK
2022-10-08 19:11:58 +0000 UTCBob the reason the one skit has so few listens is because Spotify classifies a listen as listening to 30 seconds of the song, so when something is less than 30 seconds that usually happens.
Yarden
2022-10-08 18:12:17 +0000 UTCDMX – It’s Dark and Hell is Hot (1998) Official Music Videos Ruff Ryders’ Anthem https://youtu.be/ThlhSnRk21E Get At Me Dog https://youtu.be/0xhRRX9nzzs How It Goin’ Down https://youtu.be/4AognXgM9FQ Stop Being Greedy https://youtu.be/P5L1WtHwJF0 Samples Sample Breakdowns https://youtu.be/a7kJr3cM4oQ Power 106 Los Angeles https://youtu.be/7hp0NH91F5U Live Performance Woodstock 99 – Ruff Ryders Anthem https://youtu.be/xjsnALVN1DU Interview GQ – DMX Breaks Down Iconic Tracks https://youtu.be/IZOq-_LXfHg Video Essays The Breakdown – Rise & Fall of DMX https://youtu.be/XG43J0n-NXw More Videos Dead End Hip Hop – Classic Review https://youtu.be/GGHt_LA2eLY Dead End Hip Hop – Remembering DMX https://youtu.be/n9FHNwBoYd0 Drink Champs – Fat Joe https://youtu.be/PZzyuR_wKac Drink Champs – N.O.R.E. https://youtu.be/fDE5tt5leWk The Shop – Jay Z https://youtu.be/0MbIWfKXApU
Dylan Woods
2022-10-08 17:31:25 +0000 UTCEnergy doesn't have to automatically mean that he's hype, his raw delivery is what makes his energy so great and it's definitely one of his absolute biggest strengths imo.
Bakke
2022-10-08 12:30:22 +0000 UTCBob I love how happy you seem making these videos. Your new camera is a testimant to how far you have come and how much this community supports you. I wish some people in my life were as open minded and analytical to what this genre means. Keep it up!
Brandon Lechler
2022-10-08 08:00:28 +0000 UTCI think people kind of mislead you of what to expect from DMX. He of course makes very aggressive songs, but he makes just as many slow and emotional songs. He put all of himself into his music and would cry pretty much at all of his performances. Damien is inspired by the movie The Omen, where the antichrist is named Damien. There are two more parts on later albums. X Is Coming is more of a horrorcore song and uses the song from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. It's pretty tame by horrorcore standards. Mase, who had the second verse On Niggas Done Started Something, was Kanye's favorite rapper growing up and heavily inspired him. You mentioned Onyx, and they are more of what you expected from DMX. They are pretty much nonstop high energy aggression. They are one of the closest hiphop groups to matching the energy of heavy metal.
Jae
2022-10-08 06:04:44 +0000 UTCCo-signing the Onyx shout, their first 3 albums are classics
snooza
2022-10-08 03:28:00 +0000 UTCTo clear up the confusion on "How It's Goin' Down"....Faith Evans is featured on the hook of the single version of this track, so a lot of people assume that she's on the album version, but it's actually a pair of background vocalists (Lovey & Schamika) that sing the hook here.
Will H
2022-10-08 02:25:05 +0000 UTCN’s Done Started Something is one of the best tracks, The Lox is well respected in the HipHop community and even though I’ve never been a Mase fan, his verse on this and “24 Hours to Live” which has all the same people on it including DMX is really dope.
Brian Guthrey
2022-10-08 01:50:49 +0000 UTCKendrick went out of his way to praise this album on "The Heart, pt 3" right as he was releasing GKMC in 2012... "Thank God for the album I idolized/ It's Dark And Plus Hell Is Hot, that's what started this crazy ride". Also on another track from 2009, Big Steele - Boom Box (ft. Kendrick Lamar, Chino XL) he goes "K was like 9, a young buck trying to find his outlet/ Could have been an outlaw, Lil Wayne wasn't out yet/ Inspired by DMX, inspired my first rhyme" So yeah, that answers your question about Kendrick. That's so cool imagining young K-Dot being blown away with "Damien" and wanting do do crazy concept tracks himself, and then everything that would follow.
Stefan Borglycke
2022-10-08 01:31:28 +0000 UTCHe use to do The Prayer at his concerts and actually start crying in front of the crowd cause how much he felt it, dude was one of the realest!
Brian Guthrey
2022-10-08 01:19:53 +0000 UTCRest in Power DMX. Your life and pain brought us so much great art. Sadly little changed its still dark and hell is truly hot.
Boyan Konov
2022-10-08 01:18:05 +0000 UTCloved the video. Also i know you already have the lineup but i feel like the Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem would have been a great pick for this "Spooky" month. Maybe next October
Isaac Robichau
2022-10-08 01:12:58 +0000 UTCI believe there are 2 more Damien tracks that are on the two follow up albums.
Lowkey_kountry
2022-10-08 01:09:59 +0000 UTCBone Thugs N Harmony’s - E1999 Eternal album would have also been perfect for this month. That album has a very dark, sinister, spooky vibe.
Brandon Williams
2022-10-08 00:48:04 +0000 UTCDMX had a very tough childhood growing up. Father not around and severely abused and neglected by his mother. He was in and out of juvenile detention. He found true companionship when he found a dog. That dog was his only friend for many years according to DMX. that’s why he has many dog sounds and themes in his rhymes.
Brandon Williams
2022-10-08 00:46:30 +0000 UTCSome of these songs are more like mini movies playing in his head that's why they have horror elements, crime story elements almost like Scarface, and then redemption. He also plays with the idea of an alter ego.
Lowkey_kountry
2022-10-08 00:28:19 +0000 UTCAlso Damien has a 2nd track called “The Omen” ft. Marilyn Manson off his 2nd album
Brian Guthrey
2022-10-08 00:02:24 +0000 UTCThis album holds a special place in my heart, it was one of the first albums I loved when I was first getting into hip-hop as an edgy teenager. On later listens down the line it wasn't as great as i remembered as like you a lot more slow songs than i remember (even though some of his best are slow in a weird way) but still hits me with that nostalgia and i enjoy it. Yeah that bit on X coming for you is bad even as an edgy kid it never sat right but in some defense, the hook is from "Nightmare from Elm Street" and i always felt is that song X is trying to paint himself as like a nightmare creature similar to Freddy. But yeah cringed when i heard that again. You stumbled on something I didn't realise until many years later but after my dark edgy period i got into very "technical" rappers. I would shit on most rappers who didn't meet up to my ridiculous standards. Then I started to hate them as i felt that it was just them trying to sound clever, their bars didn't actually really make sense once you took a moment to break them down and/or all they did is spend extra bars that others just said into like 2. It is more impressive to put something simple and be much more meaningful and profound. DMX was very technical in the way he switches up his flow and multisyllable rhymes. DEHH is mostly right about the hype and vibe but also wrong and X has many bars and verses that hold up to most others imo. Also regarding to the songs you were mentioning "up in here" is Party Up (one of his most famous songs and one of his best) and the one where him and his crew are on quads might be Ruff Ryders. Oh yeah definitely will like Onyx's first album BACDAFUCUP
Matt
2022-10-07 23:55:35 +0000 UTCThe length is deffinatley an issue for alot of older albums. Didn't see or have as much music back then so had to fill it up. Now people just drop music whenever.....
John
2022-10-07 23:51:17 +0000 UTCI've always contended that this is one of the all-time great debut albums in hip-hop. It's just so raw and authentic and exactly what hip-hop needed in the confusing post-2pac/Biggie era where everything was a little glossier and more commercial. DMX was a troubled man that lived through, by all accounts, an awful and horrific childhood. This was a man born to teenage parents, who had severe asthma, whose father left early, who was hit by a drunk driver, who was beaten and abused in every way possible by not only mom but the various men that came in and out of her life, knocking his teeth out and more. They were so poor that he slept on the ground in substandard conditions, he had family members that would get him drunk before the age of 10, then he was expelled from school around that age, got sent to a boy's home after that via his mom lying and saying they were just visiting and then her just straight up leaving him there. At 13 or 14 he decided enough was enough and ran away from home, sleeping in donation boxes outside of churches etc and in alleys. At 14! It was in this time on the streets that he developed that huge bond with dogs, since they were the only ones he felt he could trust on the streets. So when you hear this man talk about suffering, about pain, about anger and violence and sadness...well, to quote DMX himself, "IT'S NOT. A FUCKING. GAME."
Xavvi
2022-10-07 23:45:07 +0000 UTCHes doing creepin on ah comeup ep
james moore
2022-10-07 23:34:02 +0000 UTCAlso Bone Thugs - E.1999 would’ve been a great album for the October spooky thing you’re doing.
Brian Guthrey
2022-10-07 23:31:21 +0000 UTCPetition for mick jenkins- the waters 🤞
Bobby porter
2022-10-07 23:06:00 +0000 UTCDamn imagine this album coming out today! 😬
Ersin Günay
2022-10-07 23:03:16 +0000 UTCIdk who told you Dmx strength was energy. His strength is raw delivery and storytelling. Some of his best work is over laid back production
james moore
2022-10-07 22:42:07 +0000 UTCholy shit you look good bob
yeah
2022-10-07 22:40:11 +0000 UTCBeen waiting for this one, such a good album, shit changed the game when it was released, I skip X is Coming everytime just cause of that “daughter” line. And it’s cause as a society women and children are off limits.
Brian Guthrey
2022-10-07 22:29:42 +0000 UTCDamn we got Bob in HD ?? Good shit
Daniel Gonzalez
2022-10-07 22:20:00 +0000 UTC
