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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?
Mary Wilson, who has died aged 76, was one of the original members of the Supremes, widely acclaimed as the ultimate Motown girl group and the only one to compete with the Beatles in the American charts.
With the two other founders, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson emerged from a housing project in Detroit in the late 1950s. As the Primettes, they released a handful of singles that all flopped.
Rebranded the Supremes, they had their first hit with their 10th record, Where Did Our Love Go?, which topped the American charts in early 1964. Their follow-up, Baby Love, established them in Britain where it climbed to No.1 that November; it reached No.2 in Ireland.
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