DMX - Hood Blues ft. Griselda

What this video is

Released posthumously on May 28–29, 2021, 'Hood Blues' occupies a singular place in hip-hop cultural memory: it is one of the last verified in-studio recordings and visual documents of DMX (Earl Simmons, 1970–2021) alive and performing, captured alongside three of the most critically celebrated street-rap voices of their generation. The video's release came just seven weeks after DMX's death on April 9, 2021,…

Why it matters

Represents the convergence of two distinct but philosophically aligned hip-hop lineages: DMX's late-1990s Ruff Ryders street-rap dominance and Griselda's 2010s–2020s boom-bap underground resurgence. The track's production — co-helmed by Swizz Beatz and Avenue Beatz, built over a sampled 1971 Lee…