Seeing as how DMX is getting ready to put out his next album, Here We Go Again, on July 19, you’re probably thinking you must’ve misunderstood him when he announced he was giving up the mic.
In March 2003, X said It’s Not a Game would be his final album and that he was leaning toward becoming a preacher. X changed his mind about retiring from rap, though, after a conversation with Mase, a longtime friend who went that same route six years ago.
“I was ready to do that,” X said last week in Miami about declaring his permanent estrangement from rap.
“I talked to Mase. I said, ‘Dog! I’m fed up with this rap (expletive). I know the Lord. I know my true calling is to preach the Word, where do I go from here?’
He was like, ‘As long as the Lord gives you the talent to do what you do, do it. He’ll call you when he’s ready. He’ll call you when he’s ready.” X says Pastor Mason Betha made so much sense to him that he picked the mic back up.