MTVX
MTVX was a Viacom-owned American rock music video channel. MTVX was available exclusively on digital cable providers, being the first network made available in the "MTV Networks Digital Suite".
Format
MTVX aired no advertising outside of MTV2 promos, airing videos on a daily loop programmed to air in three eight-hour blocks per day. The channel aired contemporary videos and older videos that were no longer shown on MTV. Likewise, MTVX was not limited to just one genre of rock music videos. The channel aired a variety of genres, including punk, metal, and grunge.
Also, MTV-X showcased otherwise unknown or unheard music to the masses, such as Static-X, Disturbed, Finger Eleven, Black Label Society, Soil, Soulfly, Sepultura, Tool, Pantera, Kittie, Dope, Coal Chamber, Primus, Mushroomhead and others.
Closure
MTVX was closed on May 1, 2002, and replaced by MTV Jams, a hip hop music video channel. The last video played on MTVX was "See You On The Other Side" by Ozzy Osbourne. The replacement of MTVX with MTV Jams was decried by rock music fans. MTV's explanation, based upon ratings and Billboard chart information, was that viewers wanted a devoted network for hip hop and R&B videos, rather than the alternative rock and hard rock videos that MTVX had been created to play, and claims that hard rock formats went into a quick decline post-9/11 due to industry and radio de-emphasis.
Gangster Blues
I, I know its only time.
Only time until,
You pull the job that kills.
You say you'll never do it again but you know you will.
Call your boys who know the drill.
It pains me to see how you get your thrill.
Now time will prove,
Now you have to choose,
If life's the game you lose,
By taking one last chance and falling,
To the Gangster Blues.
I, I heard the people say,
You're in high demand.
Well badness will follow badman.
You know you only do it son cause you know you can.
Another drive another gram.
Well think of your family, understand.
Now time will prove,
Now you have to choose,
If life's the game you lose,
By taking one last chance and falling.
You know its true,
Life can be so cruel.
Time won't wait for you.
And I don't want my friend a victim,
Of the Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Bad man and bad John from all bout.
Rock it out.
Me draw for me spliff not the Cocaine.
Me Lef it out.
Babylon ah watch me run big tings from long time.
Time, time ey yeah.
Burning, hustling, smuggling,
Planting.
Ah bare weed me deal wid and me nah touch,
De hard ting.
Soon done ya chattin when de war start fi happen right now.
Now time will prove,
Now you have to choose,
If life's the game you lose,
By taking one last chance and falling,
To the Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.
Gangster Blues.