Product Description

Fourth album by the Yonkers, NY hip-hop superstar. This record is more personal and introspective than ever before and sees him moving into new musical territory, including a disco track. Features the single 'Who We Be'.

Track Listing

1. Sometimes
2. School Street
3. Who We Be
4. Trina Moe
5. We Right Here
6. Bloodline Anthem
7. Shorty Was Da Bomb
8. Damien III
9. When I'm Nothing - DMX, Stephanie Mills
10. I Miss You - DMX, Faith Evans
11. Number 11
12. Pull Up (Skit)
13. I'ma Bang
14. Pull Out (Skit)
15. You Could Be Blind
16. The Prayer IV
17. A Minute For Your Son/The Kennel/Problem Child/Shit's Still Real - Big Stan, DMX, Drag On, Jinx Da Juvy, Kashmir, Loose, Mic Geronimo, Mysonne

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27131 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 73 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Despite his membership among today's corporate rap elite, as DMX's The Great Depression proves, the overwrought production and excessive use of trite catch phrases that typify their breed can't mask the Dark Man's innate raw power. While X's reputation is intact and it's hip-hop as a genre that's floundering, the album serves as an antidote to the flood of insipid hip-hop/R&B combinations and "Oochie Wally"-isms that clog the airwaves. Standout tracks include the riot-inducing "Who We Be" and the dead-on "Shorty Was Da Bomb". Even the lesser tunes are dope. On first listen, Depression's most accessible song, "We Right Here", comes off as mindless radio fodder, but its blunt chorus quickly grows on you. The album's centerpiece, "I Miss You", is a genuinely personal composition built around a universal theme. Here, DMX's lyrics and delivery invite the same favourable comparisons to Tupac Shakur that he had received earlier in his career. --Rebecca Levine

Customer Reviews

Hard Rap Classic For Fans Of All Hard Music...
Im predominantly a Metal fan but as that includes the likes of Biohazard and Suicidal Tendencies i am open to Rap if its of a rougher nature ie Fort Minor, Silver Bullet, Public Enemy, NWA etc.
This is definiteley a release with that crossover appeal with its hard assed lyrics dealing with the darker side of street life and DMX's razor blade vocals. This guy is to Rap what AC/DC's Brian Johnson is to Rock!
Low, gravelly and will strip your wallpaper. The production is state of the art with effective instrumentation, clever samples and snippets of 70' soul classics in between tracks. X goes for a big production whilst not losing sight that the idea is to portray the realities of so many peoples lives. The lyrics and story lines are tough in places; robbery, guns, jail, violence, casual sex etc but X is never afraid to state his Faith and injects some redemption in amongst the urban battle. There is light & shade here with various female rappers to answer X back at times (deservedly so!)
There is even the odd burst of aggressive guitar on the track I'ma Bang to accompany the trademark X snarl. This should please the Metal crowd but the intense delivery throughout proves that music can be just as hard & heavy without the axe attack. Just listen to X spit out the words to standout track Who We Be and then beg to differ.
As expected, the language is as hard & frank as the beats and not for the faint heart. The N word must be into triple figures by the end.
(This is not the cartoon world as depicted by Eminem)

Highlights: Who We Be, I'ma Bang (2 great skits either side)

X is the best
X is brilliant, this album shows that. It is dark, like the title suggests, but that does not mean it is bad, far from it.
This album has amazing rhymes, if not from the darkman himself, then from the underground artists he uses. That is one of the best features of this album, unlike Grand Champ, which was the first x album i bought, this has no really famous guests on it, not even his ruff ryders family feature, which personally i don't think works.
X is an amzing lyricist, there is no doubt about it. His song writing techniques could equal the best, and being a church goer, i don't know how he manages to keep his rhymes so gangsta.
The founder of ruff ryders is clearly the best in rapping skills, next is Jadakiss then Sheek Louch, and when these two feature on the extra bit of A minute for your son, promoting their albums, if x did a duet, it would be brilliant. DMX's gruff voice is amazing. Like Ja Rule it is not the most relaxing, but x is hardcore and street, which ja isn't.
Overall x is amazing, you have to get this.

Darker Than Before
I didn't buy this cd because of any singles. I had all the previously released DMX cds and thought, why not?
The cd is really good. Like the Title says, it's depressing and dark, like always but I kinda think this is deeper. Like he's opening and letting people get a piece of his mind. There are several good tracks on here. "Who We Be", "Trina Moe", "We Right Here", "Shorty Was Da Bomb", "I Miss You" & "A Minute for your son" are all really good. But the attempt to create another banging street anthem like ruff ryders anthem realy failed with Bloodline anthem. Could Have been done better..
Good Album if you're into DMX but for newcomers I would Recomend "It's dark and Hell is Hot" or "Blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh" they are better..