dmx. he'll out-rap dmx." so it started to get a little heated.ok, man, check this out. i'm not gonna give you x 'cause x is gonna rip him apart. but i'll tell you what. we got this-up-and-coming ruff ryder named drag-on. i'll give you him." "let's do it." but first time i'm like, "what the ( bleep ) did i just get myself into?" so drag-on comes up. boom, we start going at it. three rounds go by. four rounds go by. five rounds go by. six rounds go by. it's about eight rounds. and back then, if you weren't spittin' off the top, and you made somebody go to their written, that means you won that battle. well, drag went to his written. i was like, "oh, man, we got him." and that carried through the streets of miami. "the source" wrote about it. a guy named julian boothe read about it, got me to the studio to meet luther campbell, and that was my first record deal. you are light skinned, blue eyes. - yeah. - was that a problem? light skinned, blue eyes, cuban, from miami... ♪ too latin for hip-hop and too hip-hop for latin ♪ ♪ till y'all figure it out,