DMX posthumous album ‘DMX Features’ to be released this summer
Another posthumous DMX album, DMX Features, will be released this summer. It’s set to feature an all-star guest list that includes Wiz Khalifa and Kevin Gates.
The first single, ‘Bring Out the Worst’, was released on May 30th as a collaboration with Joyner Lucas. DMX was previously featured on Lucas’ 2024 track, ‘I Didn’t Go’, which appeared on his Not Now I’m Busy album.
DMX raps in the new song, “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 gonna bring out the worst, we gonna bring out the hearse.”
His last posthumous album, Exodus, was released in May 2021, the month after his death. It peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 and featured Jay-Z, Nas, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, The LOX, and others.
During an interview with HipHopDX in 2023, Swizz Beatz revealed he had enough songs for another DMX album. “We have other songs. Can we make a new X album? For sure,” he said. “Will I make another X album? I don’t know. It has to feel good.”
Adding, “[Exodus], he actually produced and had all of the direction. A lot of people wanted to see X go harder, stronger — they even blamed me for it. But it’s actually what he wanted to do. He was like, ‘Yo, I don’t wanna shoot up and kill everybody in a verse — that’s not what I’m doing.’”
He concluded, “And so this is why he refrained from doing a bunch of aggressive songs. It was just a different vibe. This is the music that X really listened to that people don’t know. They think he was just listening to ‘shoot ’em up, bang, bang’ music all day.”