This album is strong, you were all expecting some Its Dark And Hell Is Hot album, but thats like all of you expecting all expecting an Illmatic album from Nas with Hip Hop is dead, when in actual fact it will mimic X's album in not being as strong, and having some over-hyped production. this album hits 4 stars now after listening to it a lot of times, its gone up and down from 3 stars to 4 over periods of time but now after 2 weeks of constant listens its the best album of the year so far (closely followed by fishscale) You all need to face the facts that Hip Hop has changed, its a whole different thing now, and yes its not as strong, artists are declining as hip hop as a whole is declining so its all a declining process, that eventually has to go in a full circle or die out completely. In conclusion i will be buying DMX's album today, support the realest artist with mainstream sales power EVER.
p.s. - your all dumb as fuck saying Grand Champ is better, that was a pile of steaming SHIT and DMX is an idol for me and been my favorite artist the whole time i loved Hip-Hop.