Watch DMX lay down one in every of his remaining verses in ‘Hood Blues’ music video

The music video for DMX‘s new single ‘Hood Blues’ has been launched and it options among the final in-studio footage of the rapper earlier than his demise.

The brand new observe, which was co-produced by Avenue Beatz and Swizz Beatz, options on the rapper’s newly launched first posthumous album, ‘Exodus’, which arrived on Friday (Might 28).

DMX (actual title was Earl Simmons) died on April 9 on the age of fifty. He was first hospitalised following a coronary heart assault on account of a reported overdose on April 3, the place he had remained in intensive care since.

‘Hood Blues’ hears the late New York rapper workforce up with Griselda’s Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher and Conway The Machine, and now Swizz Beatz and the workforce at Def Jam have shared a music video for it largely fabricated from studio footage.

You may watch the video under:

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In a three-star evaluate of ‘Exodus’, NME referred to as it “a beautiful tribute report loaded with stellar particular person moments, and serves as a ravishing reminder of why the world fell in love with DMX within the first place.”

Highlighting the music ‘Strolling In The Rain’, the evaluate added: “Produced by DJ Premier and Denaun (who additionally sings the hook), it’s heat, poignant and stuffed with area. It’s DMX at his greatest. And although it options one in every of rap’s most celebrated lyricists, Nas, not even God’s Son can outshine X on the retrospective redemption music.”

In the meantime, JAY-Z has shared a narrative concerning the first time he toured with DMX, explaining that he was in awe of the late rapper’s highly effective stage presence.

Talking in the course of the season premiere of LeBron James’ HBO sequence The Store: Uninterrupted, the Roc Nation rapper recalled the primary time he noticed X carry out in an enviornment as a part of the ‘Onerous Knock Life’ tour.