Yes people, 1998 DMX dropped two albums: It's Dark And Hell Is Hot and Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood. In my opinion, this is my favorite one of all he's made, to include the recent Year Of The Dog Again. I remember I had this when it first came out around '98/'99, in middle school, and I might have played tracks 6-14 every day for about 3 months straight. Thats how much I loved this album.

Anyway X showed that he was on point with this album here. I recall one of the lead singles was "Slippin"...and they must have forgotten to put the unedited version on here, although you can find it on the internet. What I seemed to notice is that DMX likes to rhyme about his life growing up, and it seems to work like on the song "Comming From" and as mentioned earlier "Slippin", which works well. X's lyrical skills were also on another level, as he spits flames on the song "Keep Your Sh..The Hardest" as well as on the title track "Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood". Two of my favourites are the traditonal songs (the ones that appear on almost every album) "The Omen (aka Damien II)" with dark vocals from Marlyn Manson, as well as "(The Prayer II)/Ready To Meet Him", and out of all the ones he's done on every album, these are the best ones.

Production is good. It's mostly dark sounding, something I like for the most part, mostly done by Swizz Beats.

Guest wise is good too. The Lox comes in for two songs "We Don't Give A F" as well as "Blackout" which would also feature Jay-Z.

The only problems I have with the album is the beginning. "My N****z" & "Ain't No Way" are the only skippable tracks on here. Also the skits are really not needed through out this album. Other than that this is one that you really need to cop. I seriously doubted that DMX ever topped this album throughout his career, but it is definately worth hearing.

Lyrics: A-
Production: B+
Guest Appearances: B+
Musical Vibes: B+
Overall: B+

Favorite Tracks: Keep Your Sh..The Hardest, Where I'm Comming From, It's Alright, Slippin, The Omen (Damien II), No Love For Me, Dogs For Life, Blackout, Flesh Of My Flesh Blood Of My Blood, The Prayer II/Ready To Meet Him

Peace Everyone!