The often malcontented DMX still sounds a little bitter about how his relationship with Def Jam ended. During his recent trip to the U.K., he barked that today's Def Jam reminds him of yesterday's Bad Boy.

"Puffy — P. Diddy, whatever — when he signed the LOX, Dee from Ruff Ryders bought me to Puffy too and was like 'Yo, you got to listen to X,' " DMX recalled. "And [Diddy] was like, 'I don't know, his voice is kind of rough and he's not marketable enough.' A couple of months later, I got the Def Jam deal and [Puff] was like, 'Listen, whatever they gave you, I'll double it.' I was like, 'No, because if you didn't know what to do with me then, you ain't going to know what to do with me now.' And that's pretty much like [me recently leaving Def Jam]. I'm glad I was able to get out of that situation because it's clear they didn't know what they were doing."

On October 31, 2004, my eldest brother and best friend, Duranthany, was brutally shot and murdered in Aurora, IL. He became the victim of a random drive by doled out by a couple of damn kids, 19 & 14 years old, to be exact! This catastrophic event occurred rocking my entire foundation and, the label did nothing to inform the fans. So, through my on going healing process, to the world, Carl Thomas the artist just seemed to fade and disappear into thin air. Dealing with the helpless feeling of not being able to do anything about my brothers death I realized that there were things about my life I could change and the state of my career was first on my list. This prompted my decision to part ways with Sean Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment. It's really all business and I'm glad to say Puff and I still love and respect each other, sharing no bad blood. So, There It Is!

1. Block - Welcome To My Block!!!
2. Yung Joc and The Boy Short - I'm So Fly
3. Diddy - Steps In The Building
4. Boyz N Da Hood featuring Lil' Wayne - Ride Wit Them Thangs
5. Yung Joc - A Couple Grand
6. Boyz N Da Hood - Run
7. Yung Joc - Jockin
8. Jody Breeze - 24 Hours
9. Big Duke featuring 62Q - Come Round
10. Yung Joc - Do Ya Bad
11. Yung Joc and Black Jak - That Smell
12. Boyz N Da Hood and Dipset - SupaStar
13. Big Gee and Jody Breeze - Shoulder Squeeze
14. Rick Ross - This Is What I Do
15. Yung Joc - Tell These N*****
16. Yung Joc and Ying Yang Twins - God Damn
17. Big Gee and Young Jeezy - Small Things To A Giant
18. Big Duke and Block - If You A Gangsta
19. Renegade - Ain't Nuthin
20. Outro
21. Yung Joc - It's Goin Down

Everyone from KeySpan to Sean "Diddy" Combs' record company have run up tens of millions of dollars in unpaid summonses for sanitation and street-digging violations because of "systemic problems" in the city's collection process. ...

Predictably, Verizon, Con Ed and KeySpan - which constantly have crews digging up city streets - all made the Top 10.

So did Diddy's Bad Boy Records and Universal Records, both of which were charged with plastering the city with illegal posters for new CDs.