DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18 in 1970. He passed away on April 9, 2021. He started rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album , It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, which received both critical acclaim as well as commercial success. The album sold 251,000 copies within its first week of release. The best-selling album of DMX,... and Then there Was X, was released in 1999. The album also featured the top-selling single "Party Up (Up in Here). The songs he sang "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon Give It to Ya?" in 2003 were also a commercial success. The 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon Making It To Ya", were also commercially successful. He was the first artist in history to have an album that debuted at No.1 in the Billboard 200 charts five times consecutively. 7 DMX has sold over 74 million albums around the world. [8] DMX was featured in films like 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 series DMX. Soul of a Man. It was primarily aired by the BET cable channel Never Die Alone. He published the autobiography of his memoirs, E.A.R.L. in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX began his career in the business of music at 14 as a beatboxer in Ready Ron. After spending time in prison for taking a dog, He began writing his own lyrics and performing at the local recreation center for the younger youngsters. In 1988, while in prison for carjacking he began dedicating almost all of his free time writing lyrics , as well as performing with K-Solo. The release came in the summer of 1988 and started to produce and sell his own mixtapes. In these mixtapes he rapped over songs from other artists and then sold them on street corners. This helped him create an audience in the local area of New York. DMX appeared on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show in 1991 along with Percee P and Percee P, in which they both freestyled. [1515 DMX released an album of demos later in the year featuring "Spellbound" and "Critical Condition", three Little Pigs "The Original Author of Spellbound" as well as "Unstoppable force". It was extremely like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim and was not his later material. 3. In 1991 The Source magazine praised DMX as an Unsigned Hype column, which featured unsigned hip-hop artists. (16) Columbia Records signed DMX in 1991 to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records. This single was his first singles, "Born Loser". [17] He dropped his follow-up single "Make a Move" in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rule and Mic Geronimo collaborated on an appearance on "Time to Build" which is the most well-known underground track. DMX died in 2021 after suffering a heart attack due to cocaine.