Why Don’t Look Up Is Jennifer Lawrence’s First Movie in Years Louis C.K.’s New Special Shows Exactly What He’s Lost X takes the last verse and just murders the track, a reminder that he could be a phenomenal lyrical technician when occasion called for it: “Now who gon’ tell your mother her baby’s under a cover / In the morgue, stiff as a log, sniffed out by the dogs?” One of my favorite DMX performances is in “ N-z Done Started Something,” the last track on It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot that features the Lox and Mase. A line like “what you don’t know is gonna get you fucked up” reads as pretty straightforward, but hear it in X’s gruff, punching snarl, and it stops you in your tracks. He’s hard to write about because words on the page can’t begin to capture the sonic power of his art. Along with the albums-three in a two-year span-he turned in show-stopping guest features on tracks like the Lox’s “ Money, Power & Respect,” Cam’ron’s “ Pull It,” and Jay-Z’s “ Money, Cash, Hoes.” Some of X’s most indelible work came on tracks with other artists, which only enhanced the singularity of his presence.
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