I always liked DMX. Used to roll up to work blaring him out of my speakers back in the day.
He had a long path to success. I respected a lot that he hung in there and toughed it out for years before finally breaking through. Most guys either get that meteoric rise or they linger a while then fade.
Those drugs though... once you get on them, it's real hard to shake.
He was in and out of jail, in and out of bankruptcy, and almost certainly his addictions played a role, both in those and his demise.
once again i wonder if anyone can really outran their demons,i look at the people around me and almost always people who were born in a loving home,two parents,stability,education,they are doing well,guys who were born in broken homes never seem to catch a break,i wonder how much of what we are is because of us,and how much is just a roll of the dice and what childhood we happened to have
Well, we are our parents. And the childhood we have is a result of the parents we come from (and their lineage). But we never know what mix of each parent's genes we're going to get.
It's wise to look at your parents and prior ancestors and, if there's stuff you don't like, figure out how you can avoid a similar fate.
The trick is to do so in a way that works with your predilections and not one where you're raging against nature.
Raging against one's nature is always a losing battle, at least over the long-term.
Finding a way to work within one's nature to achieve what one wants, though -- that can work, and continue to work over the years.
Chase
