DMX recently sat down for an interview with REVOLT’s Drink Champs series where he chopped it up with co-hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. During the conversation, he touched on Pharrell Williams’ controversial snitching comments and a slew of other topics, including his long awaited follow-up to 2015’s Redemption of the Beast.
There haven’t been too many details revealed about his first post-prison album, but X at least let his fans know who they can expect to pop up on the project. In addition to the late Pop Smoke and Griselda’s Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine and Benny The Butcher — who he already confirmed earlier this month — X has employed the talents of Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and U2’s Bono.
“I got Lil Wayne, I got Snoop,” he says. “I got The LOX. I got Bono — the U2 n-gga.”
But that’s not all. X’s longtime producer and Verzuz co-mastermind Swizz Beatz — who he calls a “magician” — was not only able to manifest the Bono collaboration but also features from Alicia Keys and Usher.
As for the Usher collaboration, he explains, “It’s called ‘Letter To My Son. When I first did it, the only issue was the piano. Then my man, Ryan King Joseph, he play the violin. It was just piano on the song, and I never did a song with one instrument before. It came out crazy, it hits you. And then I heard [Joseph’s] work, and put him on the joint.
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“The Bono joint is ‘Skyscrapers.’ Shit’s crazy. It got a Miami feel to it. I feel like I want to shoot the video here! All muthafuckas need to do is listen to it, and we good.”
Thrown all together, it sounds like X’s ambitious project is turning out to be a well-rounded affair.
Watch the full interview above.
How about a release date? Waiting to hear something better than the list of “best albums of 2021 so far…” that’s on here. Give us a release date X.
Yal gotta start time stamping these things
what is x’s label situation? If it’s an independent release, don’t look for it to chart huge. But it can still be a good album. I hope regular radio plays it. We’ll see.
He on def jam you stupid piece of shit! You dumb? You stupid? You motherfucker fucking fuck fucker!
How many comments do you delete a day?!
Like a hunnit a day
Well with the snoop announcement we know at least one song will suck.
All crap features really. Wayne is gonna be decent i guess. Swiss beats been crappy too. Worst feature gonna be LOX and Snoop with his kindergarten rhymes. ?
Not hyped for this. I hope it’s a pleasant surprise though.
Wayne is going to decent? He’s trash. smh
You tripping my g that Lox feature going to be crazy
Lol all washed up. Its hilarious its like how many has been does it take to make a good album hahaha
Fucking haters man. Dmx is real hip hop! Looking forward to this. Fuck mumble rap and the lame ass rap these days!!!!!!
Does your mom have big tits?
Does yours? I bet she loves it in the a** too!
What I look like giving my money to a crack head!!!
Man where you thank you headed wit that childish shit, raise up, watch yaself, son.
Will Hype Williams reunite with the first cast of Belly to do a new project ?
Clearly nobody in this comment section listened to the podcast this weekend. X is back at Def Jam, this isn’t an independent release. Steve Rifkin and his people from Loud went back to Def Jam. It ain’t all sunshine n rainbows either. When questioned about the move back you can tell he has mixed feelings and mixed expectations. Anyone hating on a Lox feature, don’t know why you would. Their joint on the lox album is hard as fuck (scram jones). If you grew up on ruff ryders, you ain’t mad at that. This album has Swizz’s fingerprints all over it. I can do without Snoop, wayne and pop smoke. The rest is worth a listen. Both EFN and Nore were really honest about X’s first appearance on Drink Champs, they let it be known that people, they don’t clarify who, but people taking them more serious after X came on. Clearly his presence in hip hop is still considered a seal of approval to ppl on the street or people behind the scenes.
We didn’t listen to the podcast because we were busy listening to your mom…
“Thrown all together…” That’s going to be a repeated line in the reviews for this album…
Real dog
yeah the real og bono of u2. does dmx want to be played on the radio.
Forthcoming album as in “Fourth Album”?
DMX’s Grand Champ album was his Fourth album.
33 years old guy here from New Orleans, Louisiana by the way
Bro forthcoming means up coming. Lmao
Darn that shitt’s gonna be fire, wish I was on them spin’s. I can’t wait to diddybop on somma that shit, raise’em up man, raise’em up.
Man oh man, who you is dropping luggs an slugg’s on X, raise up partn’a.