![]() Production-wise, X can still deliver to ya. Given the role that substance abuse played in X’s fatal stroke, that warning feels all the more chilling and stern today. And you only truly suffer if you remain the same.”) On “ Letter to My Son,” Earl Simmons speaks candidly to his oldest son, Xavie, acknowledging his many imperfections as a father and admonishing him to avoid a life of violence and drug addiction. “ Walking in the Rain” provides a reminder to stay strong throughout the struggle (“ Every time you go through something, there’s something to gain. Intensity of this nature abounds aplenty on EXODUS 1:7, but the late rapper also makes room for his more sensitive side. That’s my dog, yeah,” he snarls on the opening track, conjuring the same looming feelings of menace that characterized It’s Dark and Hell is Hot all the way back in 1998. ![]() DMX didn’t shake his style up tremendously during his time away – but neither did he lose much of his flair as an MC, as he approached 50. Therefore, although the lion share’s of the new album’s allure lies in the opportunity to hear DMX make a final artistic statement from beyond the grave, there’s also plenty of reasons to be curious as to how the late Earl Simmons may have sounded after re-emerging from such a lengthy period of dormancy. Whereas 2Pac was just entering his prime and had been recording and releasing music at a furious rate immediately prior to his passing, DMX left us this past April 9th nearly a decade removed from his last LP (2012’s Undisputed ), and an additional decade-plus removed from his commercial peak at the turn-of-the-century. But EXODUS 1:7 is likely to be his 7 Day Theory, inasmuch as it’ll be the final album that the late artist essentially saw to completion and that was furnished with his creative input. Perhaps, as was the case with Shakur, DMX will have a fair amount of further posthumous material released under his name in the years to come. ![]() In each of these instances, we’re less than two months removed from the death of a major rap icon, and it’s both eerie and intriguing to hear him reemerge so quickly with a brand new LP. W hatever it must have felt like to be a hip-hop fan in November 1996 listening to Tupac Shakur’s freshly-released The Don Killluminati: The 7 Day Theory … that’s got to be similar enough to what us younger cats can now experience via EXODUS 1:7 by DMX, 25 years later in the spring of 2021. What was originally planned as a major comeback album for DMX now has more allure than ever as his first posthumous release, ‘EXODUS 1:7.’ Stream: ‘EXODUS 1:7’ – DMX ![]()
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