CRAZY BUT TRUE: Ben Simmons has:
More assists per game than
— Steph
— Bird
— Garland
— West
— Frazier
— Payton
More rebounds per game than
— Tatum
— Paolo
— McHale
— Marc
— Poeltl
More triple-doubles than
— MJ
— Rondo
— Havlicek
— Jimmy
— CP3
— KG
— Frazier
DMX didn’t just like dogs. Other rappers talk about it like the dogs were part of the crew‼️ bodyguards, hype men, family, and sometimes the actual weapon‼️.
Jadakiss told the one that always gets repeated‼️. Before the fame, X used to move through Yonkers with a pit named Boomer‼️. Jada’s version is simple: if you saw X with Boomer, you already knew what time it was‼️. He didn’t need a gun‼️. “Not armed robbery‼️. Dog robbery.”‼️ Boomer was trained tight enough that the sight of him was the threat‼️. Jada also said Boomer was calm when X was in the car, but the second X stepped out, the energy changed‼️. That’s the picture most of them paint — the dog wasn’t decoration. It was an extension of him‼️💯.
Murda Mook told the wildest one on Drink Champs‼️. Harlem, 121st and 7th. X is battling a dude named Den on the block‼️. Crowd around them‼️. X starts a bar about the dog — something like “be careful with my dog, she might bite you”‼️ and on cue the dog growls at the opponent‼️. Then X cuts it off mid-growl: “Chill, ma. Let me get ’em.”‼️ The other rapper thought the growl was part of the rhyme‼️. Mook swears X had the dog trained to ad-lib‼️. Whether it was fully planned or just that tight a bond, the story stuck because it sounded exactly like something only X would do‼️.
Fredro Starr remembered pulling up on a Ruff Ryders video shoot in Harlem and seeing X arrive solo — no security, no entourage, just him and the dog‼️. Stayed on set for hours like that‼️. The dog wasn’t a prop for the camera‼️. It was how he moved‼️.
That’s the through-line from the people who were actually around him: X trusted dogs more than people because dogs don’t lie, don’t switch up, and will still protect you after you punish them‼️. He barked on records because he lived with that energy. The Ruff Ryders name, the “Get At Me Dog” hook, the pits in the videos — none of it was a gimmick to the guys who watched him walk the block with Boomer or rehearse a growl into a punchline‼️.
Later life got messy with the animal cruelty case, and that’s part of the record too‼️. But the stories other rappers tell from the early days and the peak years are consistent: those dogs weren’t accessories‼️. They were the only ones he never had to question‼️💯.
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While everyone else relies on powers, magic, or training...
Tony reverse-engineers THEM.
He studies Thor’s lightning, Cap’s shield vibranium, Banner’s gamma science, and Wakanda’s tech —
Then he builds it all into one suit.
Iron Man doesn’t just fight with the team. He upgrades WITH the team.