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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

DMX—“Ruff Ryder’s Anthem”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The Ringer

Music

4.7849 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Rob explores the spiritual genius of the late rapper DMX. He observes X’s power of prayer, recounts the rapper’s destructive childhood, and tells the tale of how the breakout hit “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem” came to be. This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Shea Serrano Producer: Justin Sayles Associate Producer: Lani Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, friends, a quick note to say that on Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day, 2021, HBO will premiere the documentary DMX, Don't Try to Understand.

0:12.1

It's part of the Music Box series of documentaries, brought to you by Bill Simmons and Ringer Films.

0:17.6

I'm psyched for this one.

0:18.6

In the meantime, you can check out the first two movies in the

0:20.9

series. There's Woodstock 99, peace, love, and rage. And also the Alanis Morissette doc, simply

0:27.4

called Jagged. Those will hold you over. But again, DMX, don't try to understand, premiering Thursday

0:33.5

on HBO. Happy Thanksgiving. Okay, thanks. Let us pray. I come to you hungry and tired.

0:44.4

Give me food. Let me sleep. Every proper DMX album ends with DMX saying a prayer, usually

0:51.5

a cappella close to the end. Another track or two after the prayer in most cases.

0:57.0

DMX is the best prayer in rap history.

1:00.9

It's not a competition for the obvious spiritual prayer is not a competitive sport reason, but

1:08.0

also because he has no competition.

1:10.0

I come to you weak.

1:11.6

You give me strength and that's deep.

1:15.6

The prayer typically comes after an hour or so of exhilarating DMX songs,

1:20.6

the majority of which involve him robbing and or shooting someone,

1:25.6

or multiple someone. Let's not turn this into an analytics thing, but he robs and or shooting someone or multiple someone's.

1:27.5

Let's not turn this into an analytics thing,

1:29.5

but he robs and or shoots a disconcerting action movie type body count number of people,

1:36.6

a disreputable action movie.

1:39.1

We better call a Senate hearing type action movie.

1:42.1

Sometimes he gets shot.

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