Hear DMX s Posthumous Hood Blues With Buffalo Rap Crew Griselda
Hear DMX s Posthumous Hood Blues With Buffalo Rap Crew Griselda
Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, and Conway the Machine join late rapper on the Swizz Beatz co-produced Exodus cut
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Exodus, out Friday, May 28th.
“Hood Blues” was co-produced by Avenue Beatz and DMX’s frequent collaborator over the years, Swizz Beatz, who crafted a sparse but sinister beat laced with a lurking flute loop and DMX’s own menacing growl. All three Griselda rappers deliver fittingly ruthless verses while DMX closes out the song with a run of bars that are both ferocious and poignant: “I’m not the average motherfucker/Do damage cause I’m a savage/Sometimes I can’t manage all the shit in my attic/I was promised the world but I got the dirt instead.”
Posthumous DMX Track Hood Blues Released Wednesday, 26 May 2021
A new posthumous DMX track has been unveiled.
Hood Blues features the late New York rapper alongside Griselda hip hop collective s Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher and Conway the Machine, delivering slick, ruthless verses over a jazz-inspired melody co-produced by Avenue Beatz and Swizz Beatz.
It ll feature on the imminent posthumous DMX album, Exodus , due out this Friday (May 28) via Def Jam Recordings. Other cuts expected to feature include the Swizz Beatz and French Montana-assisted Been To War, taken from the Godfather Of Harlem soundtrack, and X Moves with Bootsy Collins and Deep Purple s Ian Paice.