It's Dark and Hell Is HotDMX
Hip-Hop · 1990s
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot — 1998
DMX
Released 1998Hip-Hop
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A raw, intense debut of gravel-voiced fury and vulnerability. Powerful and huge. A late-90s landmark. Represented by one record here. It's the right one.
On vinyl: Vinyl can be scarcer than the CD from this era, so it's worth looking for a recent repressing.
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