It’s just unfortunate that this thing happened. He was in a real good comfort zone before he put this album out. He seen something that we didn’t see because he did multiple albums. He did the album with Nas, Jay-Z, Alicia Keys – all these people on this album. He knew that he was 50 so this album is grown and sexy. He never has artists on his album like that.
Waah Dean: This was an album he was really passionate about and his first album that he had a lot of features on. How did you feel about what is now the last album DMX recorded? ( Interview has been edited for length and clarity). We recently caught up with Ruff Ryders CEO Waah Dean to talk to him about DMX’s latest release and the future of the Ruff Ryders. Joaquin “Waah” Dean, CEO of Ruff Ryders (Credit: Getty Images) The Ruff Ryders crew showed up en masse to send DMX off in April, riding from Yonkers to Brooklyn, New York for a public tribute to the iconic rap star at Barclays Center. Swizz Beatz, born Kaseem Dean, is their nephew. The album, his first since 2012’s Undisputed, was also a reunion of sorts as longtime collaborator Swizz Beatz executive produced the album and it was released on Def Jam.īut DMX was also closely associated with Ruff Ryders Entertainment, founded by Joaquin “Waah” Dean, Darrin “Dee” Dean, and Chivon Dean, three siblings who grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. Read More: DMX thanks ‘God for every moment’ in final recorded interview
Exodus was released on May 28 with a host of features from Jay-Z to the LOX, to Nas and Alicia Keys and has so far, received mostly positive reviews. Unfortunately, he would not be here to see the response to his efforts. When DMX passed last month, he’d already completed what was planned to be, if not his comeback album, then his reintroduction to hip-hop fans. Ruff Ryders Entertainment (record label) This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Exclusive: Now that the final DMX release is out, Dean talks about his memories of the late rapper and the future of the company Hood Environment Entertainment Founded By Drag-On.D-Block Records Founded By Jadakiss, Styles P & Sheek Louch.Swizz Beatz (Ruff Ryders/Full Surface/Atlantic).Drag-On (Ruff Ryders Indy/Hood Environment).Sheek Louch (Ruff Ryders/D-Block/Def Jam).This marked the end of Ruff Ryders Entertainment. In 2010, founders Joaquin and Darin Dean decided to revamp the brand through a new venture known as Ruff Ryders Indy, as a Fontana/Universal affiliated distribution company.
A Ruff Ryders Reunion Album was announced by Swizz Beatz and was originally set to release in 2008 but it got pushed back. 4 Jadakiss and Swizz Beatz invited Drag-On, Eve, Styles P, Sheek Louch and DMX, who had just been released from jail, for the Remix of "Who's Real".
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In 2001, Cassidy was signed to the label through Swizz Beatz along with Full Surface labelmate Yung Wun.Īs the first Reunion Project since their 2005 Album The Redemption, Vol. The Deans' nephew Swizz Beatz is the main producer for most of the acts on the roster. and its main rapper Jadakiss, Drag-On, and newcomer Jin, winner of BET's 106 & Park freestyle MC battle competition. After DMX's success, the management company started its own label imprint through Interscope Records, and had success with releases from female rapper Eve, former Bad Boy Records group The L.O.X. Ruff Ryders' founders were initially famous for managing rappers DMX and The Lox who became multi-platinum stars for Def Jam Recordings and Bad Boy Entertainment in the late-1990s.
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