If there was one defining characteristic to hip hop in 1997, it was the jiggy factor- an aesthetic of unapologetic flash, fashion and glamour that ruled everything around us and made hip hop life nice and organized. Of course, for each movement there always exists a counter-movement; for each yin there is a yang; and for each designer-label clad champagne sipper, there must be an uncompromised figure lurking in the shadows, ready and willing to reclaim rap from the penthouse to the pavement. Embracing this return to the anarchy, enraged and raw, Def Jam Records presents 1998 as the Year of Pandemonium. The human embodiment of such exhilarating and unadulterated chaos exists in none other than Ruff Ryders/Def Jam's very latest lyrical sensation, DMX.
DMX grew up in New York where he got his name DMX (Divine Master of the unknown or Dark Man X) for his human beat boxing skills. He started to get noticed for his apperances with other rappers like Ice Cube, LL Cool J, Mase and Onyx. However what made him popular was the song "get at me dog." Sense hen he has released "Its dark and hell is hot" and "Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood."
On the single "get at me dog" he used a classic, tension-filled BT express guitar samle, a keen balance of street grit and dance floor bounce that provides the perfect back drop for DMX's unshakably aggresive vocal delivery, one whose distinctively hoarse voice is but the table setter for his main course of unstoppable rhyme.

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