4/2/2023 0 Comments Last hope dmx![]() ![]() The mistreatment cloaked his life in almost total, grinding fear. In a 2019 interview with GQ, Simmons recounted being beaten so badly by Arnett that she knocked his teeth out he was 6 years old. She struggled with how to raise a Black son amid the poverty of the School Street projects, and subjected him to outrageous abuse. Barker left, leaving Simmons - a teenager - to raise her child alone in Yonkers. Born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in 1970, he was the only son of Arnett Simmons and Joe Barker. The moral price of life in a fallen world was not a thought exercise for Simmons, who died this past April of a cocaine-induced heart attack. The rapper was obsessed with how this quandary could hollow him out and ultimately consume him - thus his stage name, “DMX,” an acronym for “Dark Man X.” The title suggests a man thrown into dangerous circumstances without the benefit of guidance from a higher power, where the only way to survive is to accept a devil’s bargain: Life here on Earth is possible, but only if he submits to a moral darkness that will condemn him to hell. ![]() I hear an echo of Milton’s dark world in not only the title of the rapper Earl Simmons’s 1998 debut album, “It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot,” but in the tortured substance of his concerns. In “Sonnet 19,” the poet John Milton agonized over the loss of his vision, bemoaning the prospect that he would spend “half my days, in this dark world and wide,” bereft not only of his sight but of spiritual purpose. ![]() DMX - I Get Scared (feat.His music seethed with aggression and the kind of pain Black men rarely get to air in public.Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher & Conway the Machine) DMX - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood.DMX - Bring Your Whole Crew (Nasty Nigga).the rise of my weapon I am the last hope Does it bother me? Yeah off course it bothers me Cause it's not who I am, I'm not you know, the person the media portrays me to be, ya mean? Let this time around they won't skip me I am the last hope, (The Champ!) Won't hesitate not even for a second The hustle lasts me coming up second A mother. , and y'all niggas knew the story (for real) First album dropped in may, second in december Went from platinum in one year like, y'all don't remember, (come on) Only nigga who's first 5 albums did build at number 1 And you wonder why I call you son (my son) I just begun, to get started, with the hardest part of it all Is to climb a slippery wall and, still don't fall Break down and call up to God, when it get to hard I know you ain't gonn' let me go now!!(please) You brought me too far Showed me I was as a star, all my life I know it, all it right, before I, call it a night I'mma thank you for it all, the blessings and the curses And I hope you listening, there's a lesson in the verses Yeah I gotta make it out and move quickly. I am the last hope I gotts to do it for me, or do it for them, (yeah) I ain't playing with this shit, Im'ma do it to win Know I can do it again, (come on) cause I did it before Went. and the pain that I went through daily, (woooh) Tryna stay sane through the rain, y'all hear me I'm slippin', fallin', can't get up But this time I'm outta control, I don't give a fuck! For the thugs!, I'm the last hope for the team (come on!) I'm the reason why some niggas, gotta holding a dream (come on!) These cats know what's good, I am the hood (Aii) I ain't hoping that they don't, I'm wishing they would would (come on!) I gotta make it out and move quickly. ![]() rise of my weapon I am the last hope Damn, I went through it again After telling everybody I wouldn't do it again I kinda feel like I let my people down (yup) But to get them right, I got's to pick myself up (come on) When I heard this beat and hook, it was so raw (uhh) Looked in the mirror, didn't like what I saw, (uhh) All I could say was: ahh man shit gotta change (forreal!) Even get it right and take one to the brain (blam!). They do it every time man Every time Every time they do it to me Yess Yess I gotta make it out and move quickly. ![]()
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