In March last year, Swizz Beatz took to Instagram to tease a remix of Kanye West’s “Real Friends” by DMX. The song never actually came out around the time, but now, it’s finally surfaced.
Rather than adding to Kanye and Ty Dolla $ign’s part, the version is simply DMX’s verse, which lasts for a minute. “Hate who I love, blessed with the curse, I was born to die, best of the worse,” he raps. “Wings but can’t fly, but first things first, I will until I’m stretched in a hearse.”
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