Rick, are you serious?
There is a pitbull on the cover.
Surrounded with barbed wire.
The album name is Grand Champ.
So it’s just coincidence that Grand Champ is a term for a fighting dog who has won 5 matches, with zero losses?
I’m sorry, but that clearly makes it a hip hop culture thing, unless you classify DMX as classical. As I said in my first post, dog fighting is not a black thing, but it’s the only race who’s culture has actually promoted it.
Unless you can find me a white country singer with a valid reference to dogfighting on his CD cover.
Rap and other urban music also seem to clearly glorify dog fighting. Jay-Z shows dogs preparing for battle in the uncensored version of his music video, 99 Problems. A powerful-looking pit bull is on the cover of a CD by rapper DMX that’s titled Grand Champ. “Grand Champ” is said to be a reference to a dog that has won five dogfights.