FWAMBA NC FWAMBA: Special tribute to Rapper DMX- Dark Man X
By Fwamba Nc Fwamba
Give a dog a bone, leave a dog alone
Let a dog roam and he’ll find his way home
Home of the brave, my home is a cage……..’’
My fellow hip-hop and rap enthusiasts knew I was mourning a close friend and was therefore limited in saying or writing anything on DMX’s passing. Collins Okendi called me yesterday and said he understood this situation. Stazo Omung’ala and Rex Omole understand this too.
If you asked news channels all over the world how their stories would sell, they will easily have sensational reports on how DMX died because of drug addiction than they would on the impact of his life and music across the world.
All I Feel Is Rain Remembering DMX The crucial rap artist passed away over the weekend.
DMX, once told photographer Matthew Salacuse that in order to speak to the people, you must walk with the people.
The legendary Yonkers MC, who
died on April 9th aged just 50, ambushed a shiny-suited, Cristal-drenched rap game left hollow by the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Like a hungry junkyard dog, his fierce approach tore chunks out of the ostentatious, big money flexing typical of many of his contemporaries.
After a near-decade of false starts and unsigned hype, a pair of guttural, incendiary verses on posse cuts â4,3,2,1â and â24 Hours to Liveâ introduced listeners to Def Jamâs explosive new talent, shaking down the scene in the process. Flanked by a pair of barrel-chested Pitbulls, X was coming for all your shit, and there wasnât a damn thing you could do about it. âTook it then we split it / you fuckin righ
DMX, who died this week aged 50, was born in 1970, the year of the dog, a detail so scripted that it must have been divinely ordained. In the Westchester County of the late â80s and early â90s, the crucible of pain born Earl Simmons was legendary for two things: rapping and robbing. It was said that his vicious pit bull, Boomer, struck more fear in victims than the threat of the gun. X once snarled that the police had an outstanding warrant out for both him and his favorite dog. If it was a joke, no one laughed.
The Cerberus from Yonkers described the acts of terror in his autobiography,
DMX s ex-wife Tashera Simmons remembers the late rapper with a moving tribute video for the most important person in the world to me
Simmons made the video to celebrate her 50th birthday, but turned it into a tribute to her recently departed ex-husband DMX
The couple were married in 1999 and separated in 2010 before divorcing two years later, though they continued to be friends until the end of his life
The rapper born Earl Simmons died aged 50 on Friday at White Plains Hospital, New York
DMX had been fighting for his life after suffering a catastrophic heart attack and reported overdose last week
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