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Apr 9, 2021 - 1:58 pm
Near the end of his life, DMX wept about something that happened when he was 14. Last year, on the show People s Party with Talib Kweli, the then-49-year-old told the story of Ready Ron, an MC who got him into rapping. He was like an older brother to me, DMX said, I didn t have any brothers. At that point, he lapsed into stunned silence. Ready Ron broke his trust, he said, by giving DMX who had never done a drug a joint laced with crack.
Even behind reflective sunglasses, humiliation and hurt visibly spiderwebbed across DMX s face, and he hung his head like a little boy. Tasked with counting money, he said, his mind seemed to shatter. Why would you do that to a child? the three-time GRAMMY nominee entreated, breathing heavily. He was like, 30, and he knew I looked up to him. Why would you do that to somebody who looks up to you?
Feb 9, 2021 - 6:13 pm
The Supremes were still in high school when their star began to rise, and at the dawn of 1962, their co-founder, Mary Wilson, sat in a modern literature class pondering her relationship to others. For her final exam, she had to write an essay with a psychological bent. While addressing her chaotic childhood, Wilson inadvertently summed up her dynamic with the other Supremes the wounded Florence Ballard and the dogged Diana Ross. I have developed a protective shell, which whenever I feel I may face a conflict, I draw into. Why? Is it because I subconsciously feel I might be snatched again? Wilson wrote in her 1986 autobiography