DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18 in 1970. He passed away on April 9, 2021. His debut album, It's Dark and Hot, was released in 1998 to great critical and commercial success. It sold 251,000 copies during its first week. In 1999, DMX released... and Then There Was X. It included the hit song "Party up (Up in Here). His 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" The 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon' Make It To Ya", were also commercially successful. The artist was the first to make an album No.1 five times in one week on the Billboard 200 charts. 7 DMX has sold over 74 million albums in the world. 8. DMX was in movies such as Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave as well as Last Hour. He appeared as DMX: Soul of a Man in 2006's reality TV show. It was mostly telecast through the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. He wrote E.A.R.L., his memoirs in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. 9. DMX began his journey in the business of music at 14 as a beatboxer in Ready Ron. After serving time for the theft of the dog, he started to write lyrics of his own. He also performed at the local recreation centre for children less than 14 years old. While in prison for carjacking, He began dedicating the majority of his time to creating lyrics. He also met and performed with K-Solo. He was released in summer of 1988 and began to create and sell mixtapes of his own. In these mixtapes the rapper rapped on songs from other artists and sold them on street corners. This helped him establish an audience in the local area of New York. Percee P as well as DMX were featured on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, in which they performed freestyles. [15The 15-year-old DMX would later that year release a demo tape featuring "Spellbound" together with "Critical Condition", "Three Little Pigs", "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable Force". The style was like Big Daddy Kane and Rakim and was distinct from his later material. 3] In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX as an Unsigned Hype column that highlighted unsigned hip-hop artists. In the year 1991, Columbia Records signed DMX as a subsidiary label to Ruffhouse Records. The single, "Born Loser", was his first single. [17] His second single, "Make A Move" was released in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo appeared as guest performers on the underground classic "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo in 1995. DMX died of a heart attack triggered by cocaine on April 9 2021.