DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18 1970 and passed away April 9, 2021. The album he released as his debut album It's Dark and hell is hot launched in 1998. The rapper began to rap in the 1990s. 251,000 copies were sold in its first week. [5][6] In 1999, DMX released... and then there was X. It featured the hit song "Party up (Up in Here). The 2003 singles "Where is the Hood At?" Commercially the 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon"Give It to Ya" were also successful. Also, he was the first artist to reach No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart five consecutive times. 7 DMX has sold more than 74 million records around the world. 8. DMX was featured in films 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 was the main character in the reality TV series DMX. Soul of a Man. It was airing on the BET cable channel Never Die Alone. He wrote E.A.R.L., his memoirs in 2003. : The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX began his journey in the world of music at 14 as a beatboxer in Ready Ron. After serving time in prison, he started writing his own lyrics and performing at the local recreation center that was for children older than he was. While being in prison for carjacking He began dedicating the majority of his time to writing lyrics. He also met and rapped with K-Solo. 3] After he was released the following summer He began making and selling his own mixtapes where he performed raps over instrumentals from songs. He sold them on street corners, which helped him build a fan base locally all over New York. Percee P as well as DMX performed on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, in which they improvised. [15The 15-year-old DMX would later that year release a demo cassette which featured "Spellbound" along with "Critical Condition", "Three Little Pigs", "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable Force". It was a style that was like Big Daddy Kane and Rakim, unlike his later material. Three years ago, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip hop artists without a contract. The same year, Columbia Records signed DMX to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records, which released the debut single "Born Loser". [17] He dropped his follow-up single "Make the Move" in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo appeared as guests on the underground hit "Time to Build" by Mic Geronimo in the year 1995. DMX died of a heart attack caused by cocaine on April 9, 2021.