Kanye West played a major role in DMX’s memorial by bringing his Sunday Service Choir to the Barclays Center, but it didn’t take any persuading on Swizz Beatz’s end. During a new interview with Hot 97, the Ruff Ryders producer detailed Yeezy’s involvement in helping send off Dark Man X at the Brooklyn venue following his passing on April 9.
“It was a very genuine act of love and support from Ye,” he said. “You know, it wasn’t too much talking, it wasn’t no negotiating. X showed up to his Sunday Service and was a big fan of it so I knew that this was something X would want to do, and Kanye was more than happy to facilitate his expertize and his choir. Shout out to the entire Sunday Service.”
Lil Wayne Pays Tribute To DMX With Cash Money/Ruff Ryders Tour Memories Published on:
May 3, 2021, 3:13 AM
Miami, FL – Lil Wayne performed at Trillerfest in Miami on Saturday night (May 1), during which he took some time out to remember DMX following his death in April. Weezy revealed his admiration for the late Yonkers legend while recalling memories on tour together in the early 2000s.
“When I was a younger kid, we used to be on tour a lot right, like six months out the year,” he said. “We used to have so many artists, we didn’t have to have no opening acts ’cause we just needed another record label, and it was just us and them. So back then we went on this tour called The Cash Money/Ruff Ryders Tour. See, being from New Orleans, it’s so far away from New York and Cali and shit like that. We didn’t know if it was real when we seen it on TV, the New York guys, the LA people. So when we saw DMX, we all fell in love.”
Kanye West performs onstage during his Jesus Is King album and film experience at The Forum on October 23, 2019, in Inglewood, California. | Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA
Kanye West reemerged in the media last weekend for something other than his very public divorce by helping raise over $1 million to help out the family of fellow rapper and Christian brother DMX.Â
The money was raised after West commissioned a charity shirt designed by Balenciaga for Yeezy in remembrance of the late emcee whose birth name was Earl Simmons.
A photo shows the shirt adorned with white crosses on both sides. And the back features the text, âIn Loving Memory.â