A posthumous album from late hip-hop star DMX is set to be released later this year, sources close to the project have said.
Titled DMX Features, the compilation would comprise the late artist’s unreleased collaborations and will feature a host of other hip-hop talents.
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Other details of the project are not readily available, but the project comes four years after the death of the rapper whose real name is Earl Simmons.
A single from the project titled Bring Out the Worst was released on Friday, May 30.
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A part of the lyrics reads: “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…You can bring out the best or bring out the worst. You’re going to bring out the worst; we gonna bring out the hearse.”
The official tracklist of the ‘DMX Features’ album is yet to be shared. However, sources say guests likes of Wiz Khalifa and Kevin Gates have featured on the project.
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Records indicate DMX died in April 2021 at the age of 50 due to a cocaine-induced heart attack. His last album arrived in May of that year and was called ‘Exodus’.
His classic debut album, titled It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, was released in 1998. DMX has worked with the late hip-hop producer Irv Gotti who passed on early this year.
Some prominent hip hop personalities, including Ja Rule, Ashanti, Lloyd, and Charli Baltimore, paid their last respect to the late Irv Gotti at a private funeral service held at the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
A clip of the ceremony saw Ja Rule eulogize the late Murder Inc. Co-founder, saying the record executive impacted everybody’s life in a special way.
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“I won’t take up any more time,” the rapper said in the clip. “I just want to say Irv, I love you. Everyone in this room loves you.
