“IT’S DARK AND HELL IS HOT”
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What inspire me to become a Rap artist; I would say the summer of 1998 was the first moment that initially inspired to become a Rap Artist. During that summer the Rap artist DMX dropped his highly anticipated album  “Its Dark and Hell is Hot” which was a very successful album. DMX was a Ruff Ryders Artist from Yonkers, NY “you know” Ruff Ryders- Swizz Beatz, Jadakiss, The Lox, E-v-e (Eve), and more, Long story short they were very hot at the time, and a very successful label. At that time I was around 8yrs old and my older brother always had the new rap albums that’s how I always heard the full body of work and not just the radio songs. Plus I had no money  of buying my own album. Hearing that album for the first time definitely inspired me. Just hearing the stories he was telling you could hear the pain through his lyrics, his voice, and it was just so much darkness that you knew generated from growing up in the environment he was raised in and that had a great deal to do with why this album inspire me. Seeing someone that was successful and in that limelight rapping about that environment that you were living in –“that I was living in” was like a breath of fresh air. Listening to the album was therapeutic in a way, hearing X (DMX) Rap over a nice beat rhyming about the things on your chest, the things you see, and the things you are going through at that very moment gives you a sense of hope, and you realize you could do anything. After hearing that album and seeing DMX succeed I was inspired that I too could be an Rap Artist and inspire someone who thinks that they’ll never achieve their dreams and goals in life. So I started writing immediately after that, telling stories through metaphors, people loved it and that’s how it started.

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