1 on the charts and went gold in its first week before eventually going on to sell three-times platinum. They completed the challenge in grand fashion as the album landed no. That was the whole drive,” X recently revealed to Fader. “Lyor said if I could do another album in 30 days, I’d get a million-dollar bonus. Lyor Cohen was running Def Jam at the time and he placed the ultimate carrot in front of X and his team.
Those albums were both released in 1998, with the second actually being birthed from a million dollar bet. Remember that X was coming off the massive success of his first two projects, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, which went quadruple platinum and triple platinum, respectively. DMX thought he could do no wrong but that’s what happens when you record a song with Marilyn Manson. So how did And Then… end up soiling X’s track record? Primarily, the quest for more success.
X, Swizz Beatz and the Ruff Ryders camp were all fire hot around this time period and records were still selling in high numbers. For that answer, look no further than his third record, …And Then There Was X, released on this day in 1999.īefore we go too deep into it, let’s establish that …And Then There Was X was not a bad project. Comparing that record with his arrest record in the years that followed brings to mind the question of where it all went wrong. Yes, DMX, he of many unflattering headlines in the current day had his first four solo efforts reach the top of the charts during his late ’90s heyday. 1 spurred memories of one of the other two rappers who accomplished a similar feat: Drake and DMX.
Cole’s recent success of having his first four albums go no.
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