Another DMX posthumous album is in the works. According to a press release, a collection of never-before-heard collaborations, DMX Features, is slated for release this summer, previewed on Friday (May 30) with the hard-hitting “Bring Out the Worst” featuring Joyner Lucas.
The grinding track opens with X’s classic “where my dogs at?” growl, before the MC who died in 2021 at age 50 gets down to business. “You can try, but I do fight/ Just can’t seem to do right/ Can’t run with the big dogs/ Your is too tight,” the Ruff Ryders boss spits on the charged up track. “I’ve been doing this for too long, plus dog is too strong/ Let you catch, fight me off the map with a new song.”
The details on the LP and the new track were posted on Wednesday (May 28) by rapper Vado and confirmed on Friday in a press release revealing that the upcoming features compilation will have songs with “some of the biggest names in hip-hop. At press time no track list was available, though Rolling Stone reported that Wiz Khalifa and Kevin Gates are among the artists who will appear alongside X on the late rapper’s second posthumous LP, the follow-up to 2021’s Exodus.
“The full project is slated for release later this summer and will celebrate the life, legacy and influence of one of rap’s most enduring voices,” according to the announcement.
The news comes two weeks after the 27 anniversary of DMX’s iconic four-times platinum certified debut album, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, which featured such instant classics as “Get at Me Dog,” “Ruff Ryders Anthem,” “How It Goin’ Down” and “Stop Being Greedy.” That album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and was followed up by three more No. 1 debuts for 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, 1999’s … And Then There Was X and 2001’s The Great Depression.
Listen to “Bring Out the Worst” below.
