DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970 and passed away on April 9, 2021. His debut album It's Dark and Hot, was released in 1998 to great critical and commercial popularity. It sold more than 251,000 copies in its first week. [5][6] DMX released his best-selling album, ... And Then There was X, in 1999. It included the hit single "Party Up (Up in Here)". The singles from 2003 "Where is the Hood At?" The 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon to Make It To Ya", were also commercially successful. He was also the first artist to be No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart five consecutive times. [7] Overall, DMX sold over 74 million records around the world. 8. DMX has been in movies such as Belly Romeo Must Die (with Exit Wounds), Belly, Romeo Must Die (with Belly), Cradle 2 the Grave (with Cradle 2 the Grave) and Last Hour. He played DMX: Soul of a Man in the reality TV series. The show was broadcast via the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. In 2003, he released a book of his memoirs entitled E.A.R.L. : The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX started in the music business at age 14 as a beatboxer at Ready Ron. After having served time for the theft of dogs, he decided to write his own lyrics. He also played at the local recreation center for children younger than 14 years old. In 1988, while being in prison for carjacking he began dedicating the majority of his free time creating lyrics, and also to having a rap session with K-Solo. 3] After he was released that summer He began creating and selling mixtapes of his own where he rapped over tracks from other songs. He sold them on streets, which helped him build a fan base locally all over New York. DMX appeared on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show in 1991, along with Percee P and Percee P, in which they both performed freestyles. [15The 15-year-old DMX was soon to release a demo cassette featuring "Spellbound" and "Critical Condition", Three Little Pigs", The Original Author of Spellbound and "Unstoppable Force" later that year. It was extremely similar to Big Daddy Kane or Rakim but it wasn't his later material. 3. In 1991 The Source magazine praised DMX as a member of its Unsigned Hype column that highlighted hip-hop artists who were not signed. The same year, Columbia Records signed DMX to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records, which released the debut single "Born Loser". [17] He released his second single "Make A Move" in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rule and Mic Geronimo made an appearance on "Time to build" which is the most well-known underground track. DMX died in 2021 due to a heart attack induced by cocaine.