He's lucky. I've never heard anything from him worth $.02. He should jump on that (expletive)(exp letive). Stupid (expletive).

rappers are not artists

Techni is completely right. Facts are facts.

On another note, no one cares about DMX anymore, but he is right to protest 2c per game sold. Anyone would. It would hav eto push MILLIONS and MILLIONS of units just to earn $80k....

See I agree with you Ninjiz.... if the videogame industry is using his music through the whole videogame why only two cents thats robbery I mean atleast he has a legitamate gripe and arguement there should be some serious changes about that cus he gotta eat too.....

ANYTHING is an art form if done well enough. Though I like DMX, I wouldn't call him an artist as most his stuff is just hardcore thug BS. It is a talent, sure, but not an art form. I can see where he's coming from, though. I mean Cameron Diaz got paid $5 million AN HOUR for Shrek. Maybe DMX should stop messin with EA and hook up with Disney!

crappers

the musical equivalent of woodlice

I honestly can't remember any song by DMX and can't really be bothered to google it, all i remember is that film cradle to the grave, so if he starts removing videos from Youtube will anyone actually remember him in 5 years? i say who?

Do you even listen to rap ffs? No one's ever gonna forget DMX. If you don't know why I say that, you're a rap n00b.

That right there shows you know nothing about MUSIC, because the best ones aren't mainstream sellouts, you retard, they are underground artists that nobody knows about.

Music is beautiful, so rap can't be placed there, all form of music genre have some sort of singing, not some blabbing nonsense about how some one has "hoes in different areas codes"..and "shooting balsting caps at *****azz "..



/sarcasm

First of all, the fact that both of you are sitting here trying to say Rap is not art, and that rap CANT be beautiful shows how ****** ignorant you jackasses are. You know NOTHING about which you speak, and YOU are not lord of music to declare an entire genre is not art. RAP is basicly POETRY put to music, just like ANY SONG EVER WRITTEN. ARe you foolish enough to tell me Poetry isnt beautiful, and is not art? Get over yourself. But just like there is bad poetry out there, there is bad rap too.



DMX is bubblegum rap, and couldnt hold a candle to the likes of Lauren Hill, or even Common. Or even Kayne when he isnt being a douche.

Apparently a lot of people here think that Rap is not a form of art or even a genre. I guess is time to lay the controller down and grab some books. Rap is a form of art even if the rapper is crappy or not - still a form of art. Definition of Art? Anyone? Wikipedia - I'm not going to define it to give you some homework to do. ;)



However, through out recent history you can see rappers taking their art and morphed it then used it in different aspects that affect society - Taking into account there a few i.e. religion, politics, entertainment (duhh!), education. Yes education, you heard that right. An example Tupac Shakur - His writing was a form of poet, some of them I remember were of the Haiku form. Ok I stop with the educational display.



I hope you enjoyed it. :)



Let's educate ourselves a little bit better before making a comment that does not have any relevance or maybe are not factual.



Going back to the topic- $0.2 Cents even I would be complaining and I'm not an artist - or maybe A'm I ? ;) -

DMX is well known ( yes he is) even if it's a crappy game I believe his ranting and arguments are valid.



Let the flame begin now.

This is progressively symptomatic of the intellectual decline of the West and its rise in the Far East.

Take 'modern art' and any work by Damien Hirst or Traci Eminem, they are pure garbage.

Look back at Michelangelo's statues or Da Vinci's paintings or early Greek Civilisation.

There is no comparison between modern crudity and classic sublimity and beauty.



Similiarly look at classical music; Brahms, Sibelius, Beethoven and so on.

Then look at c-rap; DMX, 50 Cents, Tupak.

To even call this cultural crudity art is a huge misnomer and an insult to art.



The only c-rapper I have any interest in is a certain Thomas Crapper, whom I think of fondly when ensconced on my royal throne ;P



'O Chaste Cloacina Goddess of the Place

Where Worship Daily all the Human Race

Soft on thy Throne may our Oblations Flow

Not Rudely Swift nor Obdurately Slow'

Rap is rap. Like it or don't. No one cares what your opinion is... except you. That being said...



DMX is mediocre. He's not good by anyone's aforementioned standards. He's neither a megamultiplatin um household name like Kanye, nor an underground superstar that no ones heard of (BTW, if no ones heard of you, youre NOT good. Good music gets shared). DMX is only memorable for being made to "act a fool up in here"



EXCERPT FROM SONG:

"Y'all gon' make me lose my mind

up in HERE, up in here

Y'all gon' make me go all out

up in here, up in here

Y'all gon' make me act a FOOL

up in HERE, up in here

Y'all gon' make me lose my cool

up in here, up in here

If I gotsta bring it to you cowards then it's gonna be quick, aight

All your mens up in the jail before, suck my *****

and all them other cats you run with, get done with, dumb quick

How the ***** you gonna cross the dog with some bum *****? Aight

There go the gun click, nine one one *****

All over some dumb *****, ain't that some *****

Y'all *****az remind me of a strip club, cause everytime

you come around, it's like (what) I just gotta get my ***** sucked

And I don't know who the ***** you think you talkin to

but I'm not him, aight slim? So watch what you do

Or you gon' find yourself, buried next to someone else

and we all thought you loved yourself

But that couldn't have been the issue, or maybe

they just sayin that, now cause they miss you

***** a *****a tried to diss you

That's why you layin on your back, lookin at the roof of the church

Preacher tellin the truth and it hurts"



OK THAT is art? THAT is what is being defended as art? profanity, sexuality, violence, disrespect. All in the first verse. And nowhere near as memorable as say Eazy-E. Eazy-E will be remembered in the rap annals forever, as will the likes of Kurtis Blow and the Sugar Hill Gang, Run DMC, and those honkey jews the Beastie Boys. Innovation will get you remembered, not trying to write the same gangsta rap as Tupac, while spitting lame delivery like Onyx.



And no, I'm not a huge fan of rap but at least i know what im talking about. DMX is forgettable at best, and DEFINATELY not a commodity to base the lion's share of a titles sales on. Now were a band as popular as say Green Day (again not my favorite, just wildly popular and a huge ticket with lots of drawing power) only being paid 2 cents per sale I'd say it was bogus. But DMX isn't the major sale he used to be. He's a hasbeen. Most people wouldnt buy this game even if it has an exclusive DMX track on it, not just because its a DMX track. He'll be lost in the catacombs of medicrity along with the likes of Kajagoogoo, and Kool Moe Dee.