DMX Comments On New Album

After being released a couple of weeks ago, July 19 to be precise, DMX (Real name; Earl Simmons), has come forward to speak on the new album he is working on, and what fans and the general public should be expecting from him. The album is to be titled, Redemption of The Beast, and is his 7th studio album. All DMX's albums have been multi-platinum selling projects, except for the last one, Year of The Dog...Again (2006), which was not marketed properly. At that point in his life, X had already started going in and out of jail for very flimsy reasons.

Read what he had to say about his new album below-

"I kind of took it back to how I felt on my first album -- the hunger, the energy, the hardness of it," says the 40-year-old rapper (real name: Earl Simmons), who was released from prison on July 19. "I've had a lot of late nights in the studio, getting it in, getting it back to where it's supposed to be," says DMX, whose last album, 2006's "Year of the Dog... Again," has sold 344,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The rapper also notes that the lyrical focus of the album will be "bringing hip-hop back to where it's supposed to be. It's not at a good place right now... [There's] a lot of whack rappers out there. It's too corny." (Billboard)

As much as i am a fan of DMX's music, i think it would be a bit hard for people to accept him, because his style is not what the general majority cling for in the music scene right now. Of course, people like me that grew up listening to him would appreciate his comeback, but we don't constitute the majority any more. Most of the people listening to rap right now...most of the people buying rap records right now are teenagers that want to hear some Drake, or lil wayne, or nicki minaj...i think Rick Ross is the only gangsta rapper that can still sell records right now. DMX got a deal offer from Ross to join his Maybach Music Group; maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea. On the other hand, i might be wrong; X might just come out with a banging single, and the majority might see as a new sound, and just swing over to his side. Right now, the listeners have a very short attention life-span.