Jay-Z opened up about caring for his daughter Blue Ivy Carter during a conversation with LeBron James. He also recounted how he boycotted the Grammys in solidarity with the late DMX.
DMX released his 8th studio album today (May 28), titled
Exodus.
Originally titled
It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot…Again according to Swizz Beatz, the much anticipated project carries 13 tracks with features from LOX, Jay-Z, Nas, Lil’ Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Griselda, Usher, Bono and more!
Swizz Beatz who produced much of this album explained that Pop Smoke was originally set to be featured on the track “”Money Money Money,” but his verse used lyrics that was previously used on another track, therefore they used a verse from Moneybagg Yo as DMX wanted to make sure he had collaborations from both the new and old generations of hip hop.
Emmett Till. The incentive to finish the biography was his own cassette of It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot, the late
debut album. It became Montana’s first album in his collection and eventually inspired him to begin writing his own lyrics.
BET.com talked to Montana of 300 who lives his life by the mantra, “no surrender, no retreat, only the hard, only the strong, against all odds,” taken from the 2006 film that inspired his name,
300 about how his last project, his decision to transition from artist to CEO and what’s he’s got simmering on the back burner.