Sometimes you know you’re going to have one of the those days or weeks the equivalent of a Championship Fight or shady warehouse bareknuckle brawl. When those times roll around (and they will if they haven’t yet), you need to be on your game. Pumped up. Ready to roll, rough and ready. That’s when you need a Boxing Anthem.
Boxing Anthems mentally prepare you for the challenge. Imagine walking into the arena. The cheers for you or jeers against that will focus your energy, calm the nerves, feed the fire down in your belly.
For me, Earl Simmons, aka DMX, fits the bill. While I enjoy DMX, own three of his six albums, and plan on eventually rounding out the catalogue, he never really challenges standard Slangin-n-Cappin-n-Bitches hip-hop. Which is fine. I’m not making a judgement. I don’t think music always has to have a mission or purpose. Sometimes it’s just about the feeling it gives you. And for this reason a few DMX songs are on my Boxing Anthems soundtrack.
And for me, at least, when I close the door on the way to work and need to know I just gotta school these punks ass cheetos nothing feeds that fire like the heavy bass, horns, and growl of “X Gon Give It To Ya” off Grand Champ.
If the only thing you cats did was came out to play, stay out my way. Muthafu … Hit it with full strength … You against me. Me against you. Whatever. Whenever. What the fuck you gonna do?
That what I’m talking about. Grrr.
DMX - X Gon Give It To Ya
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