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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Eddz on May 16, 2021, 04:15:25 AM
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Swizz Beatz has revealed the tracklisting for X's new album "Exodus". I hope this is the album DMX intended to release.
1. “That’s My Dog” feat. The LOX and Swizz Beatz
2. “Bath Salts” teat. JAY-Z and Nas
3. “Dog’s Out” feat. Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz
4. “Money Money Money” feat. Moneybagg Yo
5. “Hold Me Down” feat. Alicia Keys
6. “Skyscrapers” feat. Bono
7. “Male Stick Up Skit” feat. Cross, Infrared, and Icepick
8. “Hood Blues” feat. Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, and Conway
9. “Walking in the Rain” feat. Nas, Exodus Simmons, and Mr. Porter
10. “Take Control” feat. Snoop Dogg
11. “Exodus Skit”
12. “Letter to My Son (Call Your Father)” feat. Usher and Brian King Joseph
13. “Prayer”
https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.62137/title.swizz-beatz-unveils-official-tracklist-for-dmxs-1st-posthumous-album-exodus
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The tracklist looks good, hopefully the production and execution of the album in general is on point and it is a fitting last album from X. I'll look out for it.
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too much feat to me.
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He said Griselda would be on it.
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He said Griselda would be on it.
Griselda is on it.
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too much feat to me.
yeah...I hope most of these tracks are the way DMX recorded them and not some cut and paste job
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In his Drink Champs interview he mentioned just about all those features besides Nas, Jay-Z & Moneybag Yo. My most concerned feature is Moneybag, never heard his music.
I don't mind the RNB/Bono features as they will most likely bring a nice hook. Swizz is very hit or miss on production these days.
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In his Drink Champs interview he mentioned just about all those features besides Nas, Jay-Z & Moneybag Yo. My most concerned feature is Moneybag, never heard his music.
I don't mind the RNB/Bono features as they will most likely bring a nice hook. Swizz is very hit or miss on production these days.
That track with Nas and Jay-Z was originally DMX, Nas, Jay-Z & Jadakiss, but for some reason Jadakiss got taken off it. Swizz played the full track during his battle with Just Blaze
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That track with Nas and Jay-Z was originally DMX, Nas, Jay-Z & Jadakiss, but for some reason Jadakiss got taken off it. Swizz played the full track during his battle with Just Blaze
Yeah I read that and apparently the track in a certified banger.
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This album was completed while x was alive so I’m looking forward to it
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Look's more like a compilation then a solo X album, but if that's what X had intended then fine.
But changes have been made, as that 'Pop Smoke' song been removed for example.
Word was they was going to throw on two verses by one of his daughters, X didnt sanction that, so that would just ruin things. His youngest son is credited, dont think he rappin though.
Maybe X and his camp felt they needed all those features to bring attention to the album or X just wanted to get creative with other artists.
But that means there may be only one X verse on most tracks...denying us full on stories, in depth songs and that unique X aura.
'Damien' has also been retired, so expect a more light-side reflection.
Really look forward to it, as it's going to be the newest and last official X LP.
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Look's more like a compilation then a solo X album, but if that's what X had intended then fine.
But changes have been made, as that 'Pop Smoke' song been removed for example.
Word was they was going to throw on two verses by one of his daughters, X didnt sanction that, so that would just ruin things. His youngest son is credited, dont think he rappin though.
Maybe X and his camp felt they needed all those features to bring attention to the album or X just wanted to get creative with other artists.
But that means there may be only one X verse on most tracks...denying us full on stories, in depth songs and that unique X aura.
'Damien' has also been retired, so expect a more light-side reflection.
Really look forward to it, as it's going to be the newest and last official X LP.
pop smokes family had him taken off the DMX album
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pop smokes family had him taken off the DMX album
He doesn't really belong on that album anyway to be fair
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pop smokes family had him taken off the DMX album
did they record together? or was it a posthumous collab??
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yeah...I hope most of these tracks are the way DMX recorded them and not some cut and paste job
They are. I look forward to hearing this.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQ_b7npmYR/?utm_medium=copy_link
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Could be some good tracks on here. Always prefer his more deep and emotional songs. Bath salts and the song with Snoop Ill probaly skip alot.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQ_b7npmYR/?utm_medium=copy_link
So you don’t respond to me but turn around and post it on here smh
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So you don’t respond to me but turn around and post it on here smh
i follow timbaland, he’s a pretty good producer
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i follow timbaland, he’s a pretty good producer
That chick he divorced took a lot of his records.
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That chick he divorced took a lot of his records.
She got the ownership of Timbo's records?
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https://www.youtube.com/v/FqEVUqqKYx8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEVUqqKYx8)
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https://www.youtube.com/v/FqEVUqqKYx8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEVUqqKYx8)
I seen this song getting a lot of hate online but I like it. The only thing it seems more like a Griselda featuring DMX song, they should have taken Westside Gunn off.
I hope DMX's vocals hold up on this album, his flow & voice are sounding a bit warn on his newer material.
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:deezamn:
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:deezamn:
Wut ur actually excited for this?
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Wut ur actually excited for this?
that and i’m testing our new smileys
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DMX: Exodus review – a bold and bleak posthumous finale
4/5
‘Impressively bleak and relentless’
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/ba/d3/a0bad3ea9b07ee3b54a1ea1f72474335.jpg)
Hip-hop loves a posthumous album, but DMX’s has arrived sooner than most because it wasn’t supposed to be posthumous at all. Earl Simmons’ career had been in decline since the mid-00s, eventually grinding to a halt amid a litany of legal problems, health issues and financial woes – he filed for bankruptcy three times, was jailed for everything from tax fraud to animal cruelty; struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction and released only one, poorly received official album, 2012’s Undisputed, in the last 15 years. But prior to his death from an apparent drug overdose this April, he was already on the comeback trail.
He had celebrated his release from jail in 2019 with a startling appearance at Kanye West’s Sunday Service, preaching the gospel in the manner of an ill-humoured battle rapper planning on concluding his verse by punching his opponent’s teeth out. He re-signed to Def Jam, the label on which he had dominated hip-hop at the turn of the millennium: each of the five albums he released for the label went to No 1 in the US, a still-unbroken record, selling more than 16m copies in that country alone. He had, most observers conceded, just snatched victory from Snoop Dogg in a battle on the webcast Verzuz that provoked a plethora of online memes. He had been talking up Exodus – apparently recorded at Snoop’s studio after the Verzuz battle – in the months before his death. Whatever else it may be, it isn’t the kind of posthumous hip-hop album that arrives cobbled together from studio outtakes: according to producer Swizz Beatz, only one track – Money Money Money – was compiled following DMX’s death.
And Exodus was clearly intended to spectacularly revive DMX’s career. There are more guest appearances in these 40 minutes than on his first three albums combined. Clearly his contacts list was raided, with old enmities soothed: Jay-Z, who DMX once described as his “arch nemesis”, turns up on Bath Salt, his smooth boasts about his wealth contrasting sharply with DMX’s raw-throated, desperate-sounding threats of violence. There’s a fresh generation of rappers including recent US chart-topper Moneybagg Yo and, in one intriguing instance, a vocal rescued from the cutting-room floor: Bono’s contribution to Skyscrapers, a game attempt at spiritual uplift, apparently dates back to at least the early 00s.
It feels out of place here because the tone of Exodus is impressively bleak and relentless: for all the starry cast, it feels far more like a bold restatement of core values than an attempt to follow trends. The production – largely the work of Swizz Beatz – is grimy and atonal, chants deputising for musical hooks, backing made up of klaxons, low-end buzzing and echo-drenched voices. It takes four tracks for anything approaching a melody to appear: when they do – the harpsichord sample swiped from a late-60s French pop track on Money Money Money, Alicia Keys’ impressively restrained appearance on Hold Me Down, a Roland Kirk-ish jazzy flute on Hood Blues – they feel as if they’re engaged in a desperate fight for room with the chaos around them, the effect thrilling.
DMX: Hood Blues ft Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher and Conway the Machine – video
Even the softer tracks that come towards the album’s conclusion feel strangely bleak. The 70s soul-inspired Walking in the Rain returns to one of DMX’s traditional themes, picking apart his own mental health issues. Circumstances have overtaken Letter to My Son, with its warnings to stay away from drugs: presumably intended to reference DMX’s own harrowing childhood, the Usher-sung chorus – “Dear father, you should have been there when I needed you” – takes on a noticeably different cast given recent events. DMX is in strong form throughout, his guttural voice sounding permanently on the edge of panic, adding an unsettling edge to the threats, a sense of renewed hunger to the boasts, a hint of self-loathing to the self-examination.
Whether Exodus would have got the kind of attention it’s receiving had its author lived is a moot point. Hip-hop is a genre in constant forward motion, truly successful comebacks decades after an artist’s commercial peak are rare, and the era of Auto-Tune, Lil Nas X and 42 Dugg is a very different one to that in which DMX reigned supreme. Equally, there are aspects of his approach that seem very modern, not least his willingness to put his frailties front and centre: that his foundational albums didn’t provoke a conversation about mental health has less to do with their contents than the fact that provoking a conversation about mental health wasn’t really a notion in widespread circulation 20 years ago.
Either way, Exodus provides a more fitting finale to a truncated career than the last album to bear DMX’s name, 2015’s Redemption of the Beast, released apparently without his knowledge by a shady-sounding minor label he had signed to when the majors no longer wanted to know. That release told you everything about what can happen when a troubled rapper falls out of favour; Exodus tells you something about his talent.
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She got the ownership of Timbo's records?
She was on some show. She talked about different things while revealingly who she is. She said she was in procession of some stuff he did with Dre. She was doing something undercover, no one knew who she was.
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Listen to Full Album 'Exodus' - D M X -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbyXcYbm-1Ji6xhv_z0ppEXQHppoMJWn7
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Gotta give the album a few more listens but the track 12. Letter To My Son (Call Your Father) feat. Usher & Brian King Joseph gave me goosebumps, wish there was a second verse from X.
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this is more like a featuring dmx, or tribute to dmx album, than a real dmx album.
#ripdmx, and gonna buy the cd 4 so!
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Song with Snoop is an Instant Classic 10/10
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No Dame Grease and P-Killer beats :grumpy:
DMX - Exodus | Review
DMX’s untimely death on April 9th of 2021 happened just as he was completing work on his eighth album, Exodus – his first Def Jam release since 2003’s Grand Champ. Allegedly Exodus was nearly finished when DMX died, but it feels like a posthumous project very much regardless – an album cobbled together without the artist’s final say. Exodus has its moments – “Bath Salt” with (old?) guest verses from Jay-Z and Nas is a dope track, as are “Hood Letter” with the Gridelda family, “That’s My Dog” with The LOX, “Dogs Out” with Lil Wayne (who surprisingly comes with the strongest guest appearance of the album), and especially the heartfelt “Letter To My Son” – but the album also has problems.
The biggest problem with Exodus is the lazy and uninspired production from Swizz Beats, DMX’s longtime collaborator and friend who ended up finishing the album (with some input from others such as DJ Premier and Kanye West). Enough big names were involved on the production side, but none of them brought their A-game. Also, there are WAY too many features, and not all of them good. Alicia Keys has a limp contribution, people like U2’s Bono and Moneybagg Yo (whose appearance was the only part of the album DMX did not hear before his death, maybe not coincidentally on the weakest song of the album) shouldn’t be on a DMX album, and there are others still that add nothing good to the album – it kind of feels like DMX is a recurring guest on a compilation album, almost being drowned out by all the other artists present. There’s just not enough DMX here.
But despite its faults, Exodus is a moving final DMX chapter, a posthumous album that wasn’t supposed to be posthumous at all – adding to the bittersweetness of it all. At least the album signifies a better fitting finale to a troubled career than his last couple of releases – the unofficial and unauthorized Redemption Of The Beast (2015) and the disappointing The Undisputed (2012) – would have done. DMX’s gruff voice will be missed. 7/10
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When are we getting the credits in the vault?
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DMX ‘EXODUS’ Production Credits:
1. That’s My Dog featuring The LOX & Swizz Beatz
Produced by AraabMuzik, Swizz Beatz
2. Bath Salts featuring JAY-Z & Nas
Produced by Prime Maximus, Swizz Beatz
3. Dogs Out featuring Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz
Produced by AraabMuzik, Swizz Beatz
4. Money Money Money featuring Moneybagg Yo
Produced by Swizz Beatz
5. Hold Me Down featuring Alicia Keys
Produced by Swizz Beatz
6. Skyscrapers featuring Bono
Produced by Arden “Keyz” Altino, Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis, Musicman Ty, Swizz Beatz
7. Stick Up Skit featuring Cross, Infrared & Icepick
8. Hood Blues featuring Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher & Conway The Machine
Produced by Avenue Beatz, Swizz Beatz
9. Take Control featuring Snoop Dogg
Produced by Mr. Porter, Swizz Beatz
10. Walking In The Rain featuring Nas, Exodus Simmons & Denaun
Produced by Mr. Porter, Swizz Beatz, Shroom
11. Exodus Skit
12. Letter To My Son (Call Your Father) featuring Usher & Brian King Joseph
Produced by Musicman Ty, Swizz Beatz
13. Prayer
Produced by Kanye West, Fonzworth Bentley, BoogzdaBeast
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Song with Snoop is an Instant Classic 10/10
Yeah, that's a smooth one...Denaun pullin out the 'Marvin G'.
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Hell yeah bro. Appreciate the credits
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It’s pretty crazy this album was called Exodus even before he died. It Was Written
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[url]https://www.youtube.com/v/HsGjTld4MTs/url]
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The whole album is dope except Lil Wayne showing up.
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The whole album is dope except Lil Wayne showing up.
I’m a bug Wayne fan and I agree that’s the worst song. What’s that high pitch beeping you hear on that beat some annoying ass dog whistle type shit
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No Dame Grease and P-Killer beats :grumpy:
Which track was Premier involved in?
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Preemo was involved in this one apparently -
’Walking In The Rain’ is the album’s crowning moment. Produced by DJ Premier and Denaun (who also sings the hook), it’s warm, poignant and full of space. It’s DMX at his best. And even though it features one of rap’s most celebrated lyricists, Nas, not even God’s Son can outshine X on the retrospective redemption song.
There is a more detailed credits list with keyboard players, percussionists etc..
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Preemo was involved in this one apparently -
There is a more detailed credits list with keyboard players, percussionists etc..
Where is that quote from though?
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Preemo was involved in this one apparently -
There is a more detailed credits list with keyboard players, percussionists etc..
Preemo isn't involved in this project.
TIDAL has the full album credits.
https://tidal.com/browse/album/185306496
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Not feeling the album at all. I think the best tracks are hold me down, skyscrapers and walking in the rain. That says alot, a shame as I really wanted to like this album
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Somebody said it's more like a features tribute album. It does feel like that. But I also heard it was finished for months. Now I'm wondering if we got his album or if they stripped mass verses for future songs.
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Dame Grease going to hook us up with an X album, he got some stash in the vault.
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Preemo isn't involved in this project.
TIDAL has the full album credits.
https://tidal.com/browse/album/185306496
As reviewed by NME, dont know where they got thier list from.
Did not hear anything 'Preemo' in that song.
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https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.62543/title.dmx-fans-who-didnt-like-exodus-might-be-into-his-forthcoming-rumored-gospel-album
https://hiphopdx.com/reviews/id.3745/title.dmxs-exodus-is-a-painful-reminder-the-ruff-ryders-legend-wasnt-done-here
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Somebody said it's more like a features tribute album. It does feel like that. But I also heard it was finished for months. Now I'm wondering if we got his album or if they stripped mass verses for future songs.
Apparently Swizz removed songs from the album that weren't produced by him. Basically he cut off songs by Dame Grease and PK if I understood right.
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Is Dame going to be allowed to release it?
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any info bout cd copy?