Year of the Dog… Again

Year of the Dog… Again
Studio album from DMX
Publication (s)	July 28, 2006
Label (s)	Ruff Ryders Entertainment , Sony BMG , Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD (+ DVD ), LP
Genre (s)	East coast hip hop
Title (number)	15th
running time	54:10
production	DMX ( Executive Producer ) Dee (Executive Producer) Waah Dean (Executive Producer) Jay Jackson (Co Executive Producer) Swizz Beatz Lady Grease Scott stork among others
chronology Grand Champ (2003) Year of the Dog… Again Undisputed (2012)
Single releases April 28, 2006 We in Here July 21, 2006 Lord Give Me a Sign

Year of the Dog ... Again ( English for " Year of the Dog ... again ") is the sixth studio album of American rapper DMX . It was released on July 28, 2006 via the labels Ruff Ryders Entertainment , Sony BMG and Columbia Records as a standard and limited edition, including DVD .

production

DMX himself served as executive producers on the album, as did Dee, Waah Dean and Jay Jackson . Four songs were produced by Swizz Beatz , while Dame Grease contributed three and Scott Storch contributed two instrumentals. Other beats come from music producers Tuneheadz, Chad Elliott, Elite, Divine Bars and Da Gutta Fam.

Cover design

The album cover shows DMX standing in a dark alley at night holding a fighting dog on a leash, which opens its mouth. At the top left of the picture are the gray lettering DMX and Year of the Dog… Again .

Guest Posts

In addition to DMX, other artists are represented on nine songs on the album. The rapper and producer Swizz Beatz has a guest appearance in the song We in Here , while the rappers Styles P. and Jadakiss can be heard on It's Personal . The singer Amerie supports DMX on Dog Love and the track Come Thru (Move) is a collaboration with the rapper Busta Rhymes . DMX works with rapper Kashmere on Walk These Dogs , while rapper Big Stan has a guest post on I Run Shit . Other guests include Janyce, Jinx, and Bazaar Royale.

Track list

#	title	Guest musician	producer	length
1	Intro		Lady Grease	1:32
2	We in Here	Swizz Beatz	Swizz Beatz	3:54
3	I run shit	Big Stan	Swizz Beatz	3:56
4th	Come Thru (Move)	Busta Rhymes	Swizz Beatz	3:42
5	It's personal	Styles P. , Jadakiss	Tuneheadz	3:44
6th	Baby motha	Janyce	Swizz Beatz	4:41
7th	Dog love	Amerie , Janyce	Chad Elliott	3:43
8th	Wrong or Right (I'm Tired)	Bazaar Royale	elite	5:24
9	Give 'Em What They Want		Scott stork	2:46
10	Walk These Dogs	Cashmere	Lady Grease	2:56
11	Blown Away	Janyce, Jinx	Divine bars	4:02
12	Goodbye		Since Gutta Fam	4:50
13	Life Be My Song		Lady Grease	4:02
14th	The Prayer VI		DMX	1:30
15th	Lord Give Me a Sign		Scott stork	3:28

The limited edition also includes a DVD with the documentation Year of the Dog… Again .

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Year of the Dog… Again   DE 7th 08/11/2006 (9 weeks)   AT 23 08/11/2006 (6 weeks)   CH 7th 08/13/2006 (9 weeks)   UK 22nd 08/12/2006 (4 weeks)   US 2 08/19/2006 (10 weeks)

Singles

Lord Give Me a Sign   DE 31 08/11/2006 (10 weeks)   CH 65 08/27/2006 (7 weeks)

Year of the Dog… Again entered the German charts at number 7 on August 11, 2006 and was at number 21 and 14 in the following weeks. Overall, the album stayed in the top 100 for nine weeks. That rose in the United States Album entered the charts at number 2 and stayed in the top 200 for ten weeks. Thus DMX did not reach the top of the chart in the USA for the first time with its sixth studio album. Also commercially, Year of the Dog… Again lagged significantly behind its previous albums, each of which sold at least a million copies in the United States.

As singles , the songs were We in Here and Lord Give Me a Sign decoupled.

reception

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	60%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

Dani Fromm from laut.de rated Year of the Dog… Again with three out of a possible five points. Above all, the production and the more aggressive songs are praised, while the quieter songs are seen rather negatively, because DMX's "voice that sounds as if there is the grater every day for breakfast" doesn't harmonize so well here. Thematically, a lot is predictable, but still entertaining.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Chart tracking Year of the Dog… Again on officialcharts.de
4. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
5. ↑ Rating: laut.de
6. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone ( Memento from December 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
8. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com