“Ruff Ryders Anthem” by DMX is one of the late rapper’s more popular songs, with the Swizz Beatz-produced track catapulting the New York rapper into the stratosphere. However, Swizz recently revealed during an interview that X only hopped on the song because he lost a bet.
While speaking to Hip Hop Nation on Sirius XM, Swizz was asked about the song and to speak on how it was once reported that X wasn’t into the track at first.
Swizz noted that he didn’t handle much of X’s production on the first album, saying Dame Grease and PK were responsible. The producer said he was enrolled in school down in Atlanta, saying, “…Then I came in last minute with ‘Stop Drop.’” From there, he said, “X lost a bet or I wouldn’t even been on that album, you know what I’m saying? But he didn’t lose the bet because that song ended up changing all of our lives. So he technically won the bet for my Uncle D, and you know that just changed all of our lives. So it was just enough to do what it needed to do.”
Swizz then addressed rumors of issues between him, PK, and Dame Grease. “You know, like that song commercially went bigger than everything at the time. And then we came immediately, uh, with our sound next after that and Dame Grease and PK was a part of that as well. I wanna [give them] they props cuz they, people they feel that they don’t get they props. I’m in a comfortable space to give people they props. At those particular times, we was definitely bumping the little heads and things like that, but we all was a part of making history at the end of the day,” said the producer.
The basis of the issues between them “was all musical stuff,” with Swizz saying, “ was young and hungry. They was young and hungry. They had to get it. I had to get it.” Watch above.
source: SiriusXM
