Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

Best part of Dmx is he was always 100% authentic, always fought his demons out loud, one min might talk about robbin, killin, next minute crying and praying, whether he was the biggest rap star in the world or losing it all, he was who he was!

I was lucky enough to catch him live with the homie sneakaprince sneakaprince back in 2019 & in that first video, X never shyed away from his problems!



 
Yeah for us, Jay blew up around blueprint. X was in a tier of his own with the music and movies.
Naw I think Hard Knock life was when Jay Z started getting traction in Cali ... then Big Pimping with UGK followed and more heads started listening.
 
This **** must be region dependent.... because Puff was not sounding anywhere in GA (South) not Cali .....

DMX was all over the place ....

Places that were only playing

Scareface
8Ball
UGK
Outcast
GoodieMob etc

All played DMX ....

Cali DMX was alll over followed by Jay Z as far as eastcoast rapper.

During that time I heard more Missy Elliot. Method. Busta rhymes than I did Puff in the west coast for sure.


So yeah pull numbers and pass them like he was a superstar but like I said ... it must be region because dude wasnt it ....

Plus Puff was not in movies and branching out like DMX . so no the next super star after Pac and Big was X not Puff ... not even close.

Puff was one of the first NY dudes to embrace atlanta. He directed Outkast playas ball.
 
X was a superstar years before Jay was. Out here in Cali people weren't really messing with Jay like that until Blueprint-ish era. X was ALWAYS a huge star here, local radio played the **** out of him from the start.
Jay became a superstar in 1998 the same year X debut album came out when they went on tour who was the headline? I’ll wait
 
Puff definitely got played in Dade/Broward. But those are melting pots of NY transplants and people of all backgrounds
 
X’s crossover appeal was insane, I’m talking local POP stations playing ‘Party Up’ til this day (we’ve discussed that in here before)...X was definitely a household name and kept his **** truthful
 
FOH that was a Def Jam tour

 
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