DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970 and died April 9 2021. His debut album It's dark and hot released in 1998. He started rapping in the 1990s. 251,000 copies were sold in its first week. [5][6] DMX's best-selling album,... and Then There Was X came out in 1999. The album also featured the smash single "Party Up (Up in Here). His 2003 singles, "Where is the Hood At?" The 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon"Make It to Ya", were also commercially profitable. The singer was the first artist to be No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart five consecutive times. 7. DMX sold more than 74 million albums around the world. 8. DMX has been 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 appeared in the reality television show DMX. Soul of a Man. It was broadcast by the BET cable channel Never Die Alone. The show was followed by E.A.R.L., his memoirs in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX was introduced to the music industry at 14 in 1984 when he beatboxed with Ready Ron. After getting incarcerated for stealing a dog, the rapper began writing his own lyrics and performing at the local recreation center for the younger children. In 1988, when he was in prison for carjacking the rapper began dedicating all of his time writing lyrics and also performing with K-Solo. 3] After he was released in the summer of 1988 after which he started making and selling mixtapes of his own in which he rapped over the tracks from other songs. He sold them on street corners that helped him establish a fan base locally all over New York. Percee P as well as DMX both did freestyles on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show in 1991. [1515 DMX would soon make a demo disc featuring "Spellbound" and "Critical Condition", Three Little Pigs", The Original Author of Spellbound, and "Unstoppable Force" in the following year. It was a style that was that was similar to Big Daddy Kane and Rakim however, it was different from his later material. Three years ago, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip hop artists that were not signed. [16] In 1991, Columbia Records signed DMX as a subsidiary label to Ruffhouse Records. The single, "Born Loser", was his first single. 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" the legendary underground track. DMX died in 2021 after a cocaine-induced heart attack.