For all the rowdy exuberance of the scene outside, the memorial service struck a more introspective tone, a fitting change of pace for a rapper who could switch from macho aggression to sincere spirituality in a matter of bars. The service opened with a video of DMX riding a rollercoaster with one of his daughters and, as the ride takes off, comforting her with a hoarse yell: “Daddy’s here.”
The stage itself, a pyramid-like structure with an inverted pyramid floating above it, resembled the abstract set-ups that West has used in his own concerts. At one point, footage of Styles P — who took the stage along with the rest of Ruff Ryders, the collective and label that helped guide DMX to superstardom in the late-Nineties and early-2000s — told a story about serving time in jail with his fellow Yonkers native before the fame. “He came to me and said, “You ready, dog? Your rhymes ready?” he remembered. “Then we went to a part of the jail I never seen before. X had a band set up, drummers, everything. 20 MCs, he ate ‘em all. That was DMX, the legend.
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