One of music's most memorable voices, he survived a turbulent childhood to take hip hop by storm ... one raspy verse at a time.
DMX has died, this is his story.
DMX has died, this is his story.
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00:00I speak for them, dawg. I am the street. I will be the voice of the street till I die.
00:05Cause I know if I keep my heart real, I'm gonna fly.
00:07It's dark and I love it. Get them, boy. Let them loose. You want it with the dog, put a gun. Let them choose.
00:37There's a lot more to me than people know. And, you know, if you saw what I've been through or heard about what I've been through, you know what I'm saying, like walked through my life with me, you would better understand who I am.
01:07I am the street. I am the street. I keep my ear to the street, my heart close to the ground, my words go in the air.
01:27I just turned 15 and I got charged with 13 armed robberies. I shed a few tears and they were tears of anger.
01:49Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He laced the blood with crack. Why would you do that to a child? Why would you do that to somebody who looks up to you like a monster was born?
02:11Yo, let's just stop playing, because it would be the one you'd forgotten about. That would get you shot in your mouth.
02:15get you shot in your mouth
02:45category is not necessarily the category you would have wanted?
02:49not the best new artists you know not with not with two albums already you
02:52know what i'm saying multi-platinum i mean come on give me a break
02:54you know i was the first artist to do two out two two platinum albums in one
02:57year you know i should have got it then
03:11and i know i put out at least half the banging rap joints that's out there so
03:14you know if i stop it's over with
03:33so what do you want me to do? baby proof the living room
03:37lent some peas for genesis the movies you've seen so far has been you know the
03:40black guy doing karate but you know that's not really me
03:44i'd like to do more roles that are uh more realistic so to speak
03:48you know what i'm saying more into um real life you know
03:51more struggle you know more pain but more triumph in the end you know
04:09all this music is very emotional and very passionate and talks of anger
04:14and resentment and so many like really strong feelings but his audiences have
04:17never known where those feelings came from so getting x to
04:21really kind of have the courage and the
04:23commitment to kind of open that lock box that's there that we all have where all
04:27of our demons are that was the biggest that was the biggest
04:30challenge
04:43so
04:58and i'm off with the press
05:12cocaine has almost took my life on a few occasions
05:16it's the lord's purpose
05:20that i'm still here
05:33i pray that you allow our spirits to be born grow strong move on no
05:37right from wrong lately so many of us have gone astray doing wrong for so long
05:41that we've forgotten the way
05:55so
06:10prayers up for dmx the legend let's put that in the sky
06:25so
06:38so
06:51no matter what you go through no matter who other people say you are
06:55or even who you think you are you can make it