2012
will be the Year of the Dog. DMX is set to return to music with a new album,
due this spring.
The Yonkers MC, born Earl Simmons, will release his seventh
studio album Undisputed on March 27 via United Music & Media Group. The
first single, “Already,” will be officially released in the coming
weeks.
According to a press release, the album will feature appearances from Busta
Rhymes, Tyrese, and Jennifer Hudson, with production from Swizz Beatz and
Deezle (“Lollipop”).
“Expect the unexpected. Expect the new improved,” his Ruff Ryders
affiliate Swizz previously said of the project, X’s first since 2006’s
Year of the Dog… Again. “Expect hip-hop. Expect real music. Expect
the Dog to be back.”
The embattled rapper was released from an Arizona prison in July after serving
six months behind bars for a probation violation.
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