Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood [Edited] [Clean]

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One of the breakout stars of 1998, DMX wasted little time in following up his No. 1 album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot with Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. If the quick turnaround seems surprising, maybe it's because DMX's second LP doesn't fall far from the original tree. Key to his formula, DMX has mastered the art of thug-life anthems, following in the dubious footsteps of 2Pac and Noreaga. While his gruff voice and simple delivery help make his songs infectious, they're rarely creative, especially with anemic beats, redundant subject matter, and his trademark barks. Basically, Flesh of My Flesh is a perfect buy for those who couldn't wait a whole year for another DMX LP, but it won't convert many new listeners. --Oliver Wang

Tracks:

My Niggas - Skit
Bring Your Whole Crew
Pac Man - Skit
Ain't No Way
We Don't Give a Fuck
Keep Your Shit The Hardest
Coming From - (featuring Mary J. Blige)
It's All Good
The Omen
Slippin'
No Love 4 Me
Dogs for Life
Blackout
Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
Heat
Ready To Meet Him

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One of the breakout stars of 1998, DMX wasted little time in following up his No. 1 album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot with Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. If the quick turnaround seems surprising, maybe it's because DMX's second LP doesn't fall far from the original tree. Key to his formula, DMX has mastered the art of thug-life anthems, following in the dubious footsteps of 2Pac and Noreaga. While his gruff voice and simple delivery help make his songs infectious, they're rarely creative, especially with anemic beats, redundant subject matter, and his trademark barks. Basically, Flesh of My Flesh is a perfect buy for those who couldn't wait a whole year for another DMX LP, but it won't convert many new listeners. --Oliver Wang

Customer Reviews:

Just 'cause I love my n*****, I shed blood 4 my n*****.......2007-06-12

I was introduced to DMX, of all places, on Mase's 1st CD on a track entitled "24 Hours To Live". The track featured Black Rob, The LOX and DMX with an energetic Puff Daddy on the chorus. Soon after that track, I heard him on the LOX's "Money, Power, & Respect" which also featured Lil Kim. I was shopping for music one day and I found a CD Maxisingle to "Get At Me Dog", which also had the track "Stop Being Greedy" on it. Based on the reputation of his verses on "24 Hours To Live" and "Money, Power & Respect", I decided to purchase the CD Maxisingle eventhough I hadn't heard it. "Get At Me Dog" was produced by Dame Grease and was full of energy. It used the same sample that EPMD had used for "Get The Bozack". DMX had some choice words for a particular rapper, who I later found out was K-Solo, and he definitely had me anticipating his solo debut. "Stop Being Greedy" ended up being his 2nd single and was also a tight track. DMX's "It's Dark And Hell Is Hot" dropped in 1998 and is easily my favorite CD from DMX. My favorite tracks ended up being "Ruff Ryders' Anthem", "F*****' Wit' D", "Get At Me Dog", "Damien", "Crime Story", "ATF" and "N***** Done Started Something" w/The LOX and Mase.

One of my boys told me that DMX was droppin' another CD before the end of the year and of course, I didn't believe him. It was hard for me to believe that DMX would drop 2 CDs in the same calendar year. However, in December of 1998, DMX's 2nd CD, "Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood" was released. Usually, before I listen to a CD I will check the liner notes for production credits, guest appearances, etc. I was immediately stunned to see DMX covered in blood and in a devilish mind state. However, I was still able to enjoy the music once I put the CD in my stereo. The CD starts off with one of DMX's famous quotes on Jay Z's "Money, Cash, Hoes" from his "Volume 2...Hard Knock Life" Disc. From there DMX does his best attempt to make you not want to listen to the CD in "Bring Your Whole Crew". The beat is tight and DMX even has decent lyrics on the track at times. However, you have to draw the line at some point when it comes to the lyrics. I am sure people that have followed DMX know what I am talking about, I guess he wanted his lyrics to reflect the way that he looked on the CD cover on this track. DMX gets his slow flow on with "Ain't No Way". Swizz Beatz was able to produce more tracks this time around because of the success of DMX's "Ruff Ryders' Anthem". The remix was featured on DJ Clue's "The Professional" CD. "We Don't Give A F***" features Styles P from the LOX and Jadakiss on the hook. DMX sounds as if he is calling someone out just as he did on "Get At Me Dog" and things workout because of the tight production by Irv Gotti and Rebel and because of quality contributions from 2/3 of The Lox. The queen of hip hop/r&b, Mary J. Blige joins DMX as he tries to explain where he is "Coming From". PK, who produced "Bring Your Whole Crew" gives DMX a nice track and DMX is able to spit retrospective rhymes just like he did on the 1st single "Slippin'". "The Omen" is the sequel to "Damien" from "It's Dark And Hell Is Hot" and things still end up working on Part 2. I admit that I was surprised to hear Marilyn Manson on the hook put things still end up working. Swizz Beatz gives DMX and Drag-On a nice uptempo track to allow them to get some things started in the club on "No Love 4 Me". The production is definitely tight and I am sure that you listened to this track as much as I did back in the day.

The track that hands down is my favorite song has to be "Blackout". You get a track with no hook or chorus that gives you A+ verses from Jadakiss, Sheek Louch and Styles P. from the LOX, Jay-Z, who clearly put DMX to shame on this track and DMX finishing things off at the end. This is clearly an example of the guests getting the best of the rapper whose CD it is. However, the collaboration is still top notch and is one of my favorite rap collaborations of all time. "Heat" continues where "Blackout" left off, however, DMX shines as he gets his own platform to show you that the heat is always on in the streets. Swizz Beatz is on the hook and this is definitely one of my favorites on this CD.

After, all the tales of violence and what happens to unsuspecting people out of the blue, it was nice to see DMX take a break just as he did on "Slippin'" and "Coming From" to tell you that he is "Ready To Meet Him". DMX thanks the Lord just as he did on "Prayer" from his debut. The track starts off with another thoughtful prayer and DMX ends the CD off on a nice note as he raps his open letter to the man above.

Overall, this was a nice sequel to "It's Dark And Hell Is Hot". DMX gave you the same fiery lyrics and Swizz Beatz had his coming out party with the production. You can listen to the whole CD but you should definitely be able to tell the better songs from the others. With Def Jam, releasing "DMX's Greatest Hits: Pick Of The Litter" on 6/12/07, I figured I would dig back into the collection to give you a review of one of my favorite rap CDs of the past.

One Love Boomer!!

James' Top 5

1) Blackout w/Jay-Z & The LOX
2) Slippin'
3) We Don't Give A F*** w/Jadakiss & Styles P.
4) Coming From w/Mary J. Blige
5) Heat w/Swizz Beatz

Honorable Mention

Ready To Meet Him
No Love For Me w/Drag-On & Swizz Beatz
Ain't No Way
The Omen
Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood

Ranking DMX's Discography (Excluding "Year Of The Dog...Again")

1) It's Dark And Hell Is Hot
2) Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
3) ...And Then There Was X
4) The Great Depression
5) Grand Champ

In Less Than A Year............2007-01-27

After the following of the very well received debut of "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot"....I personally think DMX might have pushed his sophomore effort out there a little too quickly thinking that his newly developed fans would quickly forget about him and dismiss him as a one album wonder. Whatever the case may be, DMX(Earl Simmons in his late 30's at the time might I add) pumped out this gem. No, it's not a sequel to his outstanding debut but it receives my respect all the same. My favorite cut would have to be "Slippin'"....and despite the overused quoted chorus of "I'm slippin' I've fallen and I can't get up", X tells an eloquent ghetto poem. However, with only releasing this only 7 months after the release of his debut, X proves that he has staying power.

Two Albums In One Year...Thats A Rarity...Especially If They're Both Dope (Rating:8 out of 10- -4 stars).......2006-11-22

Yes people, 1998 DMX dropped two albums: It's Dark And Hell Is Hot and Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood. In my opinion, this is my favorite one of all he's made, to include the recent Year Of The Dog Again. I remember I had this when it first came out around '98/'99, in middle school, and I might have played tracks 6-14 every day for about 3 months straight. Thats how much I loved this album.

Anyway X showed that he was on point with this album here. I recall one of the lead singles was "Slippin"...and they must have forgotten to put the unedited version on here, although you can find it on the internet. What I seemed to notice is that DMX likes to rhyme about his life growing up, and it seems to work like on the song "Comming From" and as mentioned earlier "Slippin", which works well. X's lyrical skills were also on another level, as he spits flames on the song "Keep Your Sh..The Hardest" as well as on the title track "Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood". Two of my favourites are the traditonal songs (the ones that appear on almost every album) "The Omen (aka Damien II)" with dark vocals from Marlyn Manson, as well as "(The Prayer II)/Ready To Meet Him", and out of all the ones he's done on every album, these are the best ones.

Production is good. It's mostly dark sounding, something I like for the most part, mostly done by Swizz Beats.

Guest wise is good too. The Lox comes in for two songs "We Don't Give A F" as well as "Blackout" which would also feature Jay-Z.

The only problems I have with the album is the beginning. "My N****z" & "Ain't No Way" are the only skippable tracks on here. Also the skits are really not needed through out this album. Other than that this is one that you really need to cop. I seriously doubted that DMX ever topped this album throughout his career, but it is definately worth hearing.

Lyrics: A-
Production: B+
Guest Appearances: B+
Musical Vibes: B+
Overall: B+

Favorite Tracks: Keep Your Sh..The Hardest, Where I'm Comming From, It's Alright, Slippin, The Omen (Damien II), No Love For Me, Dogs For Life, Blackout, Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood, The Prayer II/Ready To Meet Him

Peace Everyone!

classic.......2006-08-11

if you liked It's Dark and hell is hot you'll love this.

Top 5

1 Slippin' (Classic - edited 4 some reason)
2 Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
3 It's All Good (Classic)
4 Ain't No Way
5 The Omen (Damien II)

another good dmx cd.......2006-07-12

this is the latest dmx cd i picked up and it is real good but his first is his best. songs that i like on this cd are bring your whole crew,its all good,flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood and blackout. very few weak tracks

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Bazan Delivers
Dve pwns sum n00bz
Bazan is back
Pretty good stuff, but a little pricey
Pieces are moving.

Fewer Moving Parts
David Bazan
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Known for his tenure performing as Pedro the Lion, songwriter David Bazan has retired the band name to continue making music under his own name. "FEWER MOVING PARTS" finds Bazan going back to his creative roots by performing and recording everything himself in his home studio. But Bazan has expanded his sonic canvas. His signature songwriting, voice, and melodies are framed in layered harmonies, multi-tracked guitars, analog keyboards, and intricate production he was never able to fully realize with Pedro The Lion. The EP includes two different versions of five new Bazan songs. One version will be stripped down acoustic and another version will have full-instrumentation. Acclaimed graphic novelist, Zak Sally created new original artwork for the EP. "FEWER MOVING PARTS" is David Bazan's finest work to date. www.davidbazan.com

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Bazan Delivers.......2007-06-27

My biggest complaint with this album is that there are only five songs on it. EP's from great artists always leaves us wanting more. Here Bazan manages to take an EP and give us our money's worth. There are only five songs, but two versions of each one. His EP ends up timing out to longer than many artist's entire albums, and the songs are brilliant. The production value is a step down from his earlier work, especially Pedro the Lion's Achilles Heal which had true studio quality. While some of the songs seem like early sketches (such as Cold Beer and Cigarettes/The Devil Is Beating His Wife which sounds much more determined ina live youtube video) they are obviously amazing lyrical and musical achievements. Over the past few years Bazan has been able to develop his minimalistic approach to an increasingly musically sophisticated talent. With Fewer Moving Parts we find Bazan able to write tunes with complex chord structures that sound as accessible and natural and his earliest recordings. As usual his tunes ring perfect for a lyrical presence nearly unmatched in modern music... But mostly this album just leaves us waiting for the LP that follows.

Dve pwns sum n00bz.......2006-08-14

On tihs n00 CD, DB ttly pwnes sum n00bZ. taht is why it r0x. 411 7h3 pi7hf0rk h4turz c4n b4k 7h3 f up.

Bazan is back.......2006-08-13

I'll keep it simple. This is David Bazan's best work. If you liked either Pedro the Lion or Headphones, buy this. You will not be disappointed.

Pretty good stuff, but a little pricey.......2006-08-13

Once again David Bazan gives us another great album. There is no doubt that he deserves his recent mention in the Past Magazine Top 100 living songwriters; that being said I am a little frustrated with this album. Don't get me wrong, the music is very good, and the lyrics are what any long time fan would expect. (They are a bit dark, and he does seem a bit jaded, but i hope that he is just venting and not jaded.) My problem is the price; $12 for five songs. Yes, he does them all twice, but that seems a little pricey for five songs. Still this is a great album.

Pieces are moving........2006-08-12

Dave's back to work on this EP. A very different approach to recording than he has used on any other record. Dave recorded everything so the arrangements are more complex. If you don't break into a smile when the synth parts come in on Selling Advertising and How I Remember you must not have any teeth. It's good. Really good. Buy it.

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Flesh of My Skin Blood of My Blood
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Release Date: 2004-04-12

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Hunting
Flesh of My Skin
Blood of My Blood
Testing of My Faith
Fight Your Revolution
Darkest Night
Talk Some Sense (Gamma Ray)
Treasures of the World
My Nocturne
I Shall Be Released
No Friend of Mine
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Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood [Edited]

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Best Rap album I've heard, this edited version is more fun..
Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood.
DMX- A true Hip Hopper
No Way
DMX IS DA BOMB! HIS CD IS BANGIN.

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Release Date: 1998-12-22

Tracks:

My N**** (Skit)
Bring Your Whole Crew
Pac Man Skit
Ain't No Way
We Don't Give A F***
Keep Your S*** The Hardest
Coming From
It's All Good
The Omen
Slippin'
No Love 4 Me
Dogs Of Life
Blackout
Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
Heat
Ready To Meet Him

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Best Rap album I've heard, this edited version is more fun.........2007-04-07

This is the best Rap album I've heard. The album contains a well balanced variety of tracks. You have the head nodders, the serious soulful tracks, the intense high stringers, and a couple of dark ones. I personally like the edited version better because I like the overdubbed vocal patches, (what! Wooo ComeOn! AAH). The DMX signature vocal patches sound great while blotting out the "parental advisory" content. It's like an extra instrument.

Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood........2002-11-03

If you're looking for "It's dark and hell is hot" Part 2 you may be disappointed with this one. Which makes me wonder why only 7 months after that legendary debut album he released this, he could've just rested on his laurels, the Hard Knock Life Tour w/ Jay-Z was about to happen and a few months later the first Ruff Ryders compilation , "Ryde or Die: Volume 1" was coming out. I can remeber many fans (myself included) who were confused with this sudden follow-up. There were the old and new DMX albums, yet the first one was released last May!
That said, this is an extremely strong album in it's own light. "Slippin" was a somewhat poor choice for a first single in that it was mellow. The opener "My Niggaz" is a semi-skit with a nice keyboard line. Speaking of skits, there's only one more on the entire album, "Pac-Man" which is the perfect compliment to "Mickey" off his debut. DMX's superb flow accompanies the beats well.Trouble maker Damien returns for "The omen", which features a terrific background noise inspired by a Heart rate machine at a hospital. Marilyn Manson, like him or not, sings the chorus. Some may complain that "It's all good" is a bit cliched, but it goes along with his "I don't give a" attitude. There's a clever use of the Tania Gardner "Heartbeat"/"Turnaround" bass line.

The afforementioned "Slippin" is good. X once again employs a female singer with a pretty voice to sing the background vocals.

On "No love 4 me" he continues to demonstrate his lyrical prowess, along with help from fellow Ruff Ryder Drag-ON, who also rips it. Next is my favorite song on the whole CD "Dogs for life" which is widely overlooked in the DMX catalog, it contains deep introspective lyrics from Dark Man and he even speaks a little Spanish. Es Loco, Muy Bien! The organ and piano from Swizz Beatz is top notch. Following that is "Blackout", which ranks alongside Noreaga's "Banned from t.v" among all-time greatest posse cuts. Hey, the L.O.X also appeared on that song, they're batting .1000. Jay-Z has a nice verse and of course X drives it all home with his patented "Grrrrrrrrrr." I always looked at that track as a warm-up for Jay and DMX, right before their Succesful tour. The title track has an interesting solo at the end, I'm not sure what instrument it is. I enjoy the line saying "Matter of fact I think I'll drop another song tonight" Meaning he doesn't care if it gets 5 Mics in the Source; He's satisfied with it, which ranks above all in terms of importance.
I gotta give credit to that skill, he can rush a tune without making it sound (bad).

The weakest track on the album beat-wise is "Heat". I think Sheek sings the chorus, though I'm note, The liner notes don't credit anyone, but maybe that adds to it's mysterious-ness.
He gives a shout-out to Boomer, his pet dog who got hit by a van, the words "One love Boomer" are tattooed on DMX' back.

The closer to the record is "Ready to meet him" an epic, spiritual cut that starts out with the expected prayer. This differs from his other albums because the prayer and song are combined as one track. Whereas usually there seperate. If you're not familiar these songs are highly emotional with DMX talking to the lord, voiced by himself. There's scenarios like "Thou shall not kill/but what if he's trying to kill me?" That wordplay paints an eery picture that rolls up smoothly alongside Swizz' Creepy, haunting background melody. This ending track is over 7-minutes long, and unlike It's dark and hell is hot, there's no quick message from DMX to finish the album, I'm not saying that's good or bad, just different.

The actual disc is a little less fancy then the first one, and at first I hated this albums cover, Now it's tied with the debut for number #1, to be honest if he had this cover on his first album, it probably would've been less popular.

Admittedly this album as a whole is just a notch below It's Dark and hell is hot, and this arrived only a short time after it's precursor, still, it shouldn't be overlooked, give this a listen when you get the chance.

DMX- A true Hip Hopper.......2001-12-07

Dmx is a talented songwriter, as well as actor. And Then There Was X, like work done before and after this album, was off the wall. I would just like to thank X for giving me the chance to hear what's in his heart, and keep up the good work. There are a lot of people out there who are hatin on him, but they need to know the talent he puts in to what he does. Not everyone is going to agree about what comes out his mouth, but you must keep it real, and admit, he's one of the biggest, brightest stars in history of rapp. Keep it DMX. Much love. Holla. (...)

No Way.......2000-06-15

Terrible, Terrible. What a waste. These songs sound like they were done overnight. It almost sounded like he had nothing to say. There is prabably 1 good song on the album. This is nothing like the first.

DMX IS DA BOMB! HIS CD IS BANGIN........1999-10-06

I LOVE HIS MUSIC AND HIS STYLE. DMX KEEP DOIN YOUR THING. I LOVE YOU. PEACE!

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