What's My Name

"I'm not a nice person," DMX raps on "What's My Name," where he comes out hard against the haters and pretenders. He was actually known to be very nice to most people he knew, especially his friends and family. But you didn't want to set him off, unleashing the pugnacious side of him that emerged in his music. The song was recorded in Miami, where DMX was having a lot of fun in his off hours. "When I get in the studio it's a whole 'nother situation," he said.

Just as there are outlaw country songs about heartbreak, there are hardcore rap songs about anger. In this way, DMX and Hank Williams had something in common. "Sometimes people want to feel worse," he told GQ regarding this song. "You don't always want to feel better. However you want to feel, there should be a song that helps you feel that way. Who wants to be happy all the time? You'll get taken advantage of all the time."

DMX wasn't the first to have a hit song with this title; Snoop Dogg went to #8 with his "What's My Name?" in 1993. In 2010, Rihanna and Drake teamed up for a #1 hit with the same title.