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♪ Shut it down, open up shop. ♪

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♪ Oh, no. ♪

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♪ That's how Ruff Ryder's Roll ♪

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(upbeat music)

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- (Tonja) What's your
favorite memory of DMX?

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- I recently got to see him in the studio

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while he was working on
this up and coming album,

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and we just got to share some words.

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We had a toast.

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It was just a celebration
of his music, his life.

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- We took a flight together
to Africa, we had a show.

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And after the flight, he
grabbed my hands and he said,

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"Come on, let's pray."

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And my team and his team
stood in the airport

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and he said this soulful prayer

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that was so touching, and so moving.

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I was just like, oh my gosh.

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I was so happy to have witnessed him

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- (Ebony Obsidian)His
spirituality, I think was

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the biggest impact for me.

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Because he was a musician,
and in rap too; you don't

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always get that combination.

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So to just see him, his whole life,

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his whole career,

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continue to lean into his
faith and spirituality

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when he needed it most.

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I think that was a legacy he left.

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- One thing about him,

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he always knew how to control the crowd.

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You know his energy would light up a room.

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- (Moneybagg Yo) He did just show it all,

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no matter where he was at.

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It looked like Coachella,
Australia, there was this energy

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- (Tonja)I know what you're talking about.

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- It's crazy. So Rest in Peace DMX.

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- (Rapsody) First time
I've ever heard his music,

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it's dark and have this hot.

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And to be that age that I was,

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I was probably 12, 13.

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And to have somebody that just,

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he just jumped off of the CDs,

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and I off of the screen,

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and it was so much energy.

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Like it fuel, it fueled me like,

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♪ I'm politicking with this chicken ♪

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♪ wondering if I'ma creep her ♪

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♪ little hood-rat from 25th named Tenika ♪

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♪ coming through, like I do ♪

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like he's one of the greatest storytellers

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that ever did it.

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- His face was all over every

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single wall in my room.

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It was so much passion

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and no one had ever really delivered

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hip-hop or rap in that way.

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- (Tone Stith) So as a
kid, my dad would play

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♪ Y'all gunna make me lose my, right? ♪

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And I'll be in the back
saying all the words,

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not the clean version, neither.

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So he comes back there like

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"Stop that!"

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but he'd be playing it still in the front.

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So I just know I came up on DMX.

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- There isn't an occasion
that I couldn't put

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in a DMX record and the
song fit the occasion

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and made you feel like, okay,

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this is my vibe. You know, whether it

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was the turn up when he
was stopping and dropping,

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whether it was I'm slipping, I'm falling

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and I can't get up.

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When you're gnawing on the
things that, your flaws

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or the things that you're going through.

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And he knew how to touch on

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every little thing so that everybody knew:

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I know what you're going through.

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You felt included.

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And I think that is the magic of DMX.

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- I got the dog coming.

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- I'm gonna say when him and
Aaliyah did Romeo Must Die.

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I'm an actress so of course,
he had a natural gift

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for acting. I wish he did even more films.

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- I'm around DMX's age so, a lot of stuff.

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Okay.

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- (Tonja) I know what you're saying.

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- (Inaudible)

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- I know that's right.

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- When I heard him do

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A Christmas song, and the
only way DMX can do it.

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And I remember listening
to that and I was like,

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yo, this man is definitely different.

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Like he's always been
stylized and a man of his own,

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but the way he did. (laughter)

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- (Interviewer) The Rudolph

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- Rudolph was amazing.

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- You know we both come
from the same place:

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New York, so you know today
just celebrating his life.

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May he Rest in Piece.

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(upbeat outro music)