The music world continues to mourn the loss of DMX, which died Friday, April 8 after a heart attack the week before. Today X employee Swizz Beatz posted a longer memory of the rapper as a video on Instagram, describing him as a “different type of artist, different type of creative, different type of soul.”
“Since the day I met him, he lived his life for everyone else,” Swizz says in the video. “You’ve never seen him next to a Lamborghini … You’ve never seen him frozen without jewelry, he didn’t care … He was the greatest because he prayed for everyone else.”
Swizz Beatz ‘first placement in the music industry was his beat for DMX’s “Ruff Ryders Anthem,” released in 1998. “I’m in position because of DMX,” he says at one point. My brother was one of them. No one before, no one coming. He was the most loyal person I’ve ever known … You couldn’t buy DMX. His loyalty, who he loved, was never for sale. Watch the full clip below.
Read Pitchfork’s epilogue, “Remembering DMX, Who Changed Rap Forever.”