DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970, and 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 and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies in the first week of its release. [5][6] In 1999, DMX released... and Then There Was X. The album featured the hit song "Party up (Up in Here). The songs he sang "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya?" in 2003 were also commercial hits. Commercially as well as his 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon"X Gon Ya" were also very successful. He was the first artist in history to have an album release at No.1 on the Billboard 200 charts five times consecutively. [7] Overall, DMX sold over 74 million records worldwide. [8] DMX was in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds. He was the main character in the 2006 reality television series DMX. Soul of a Man. It was primarily shown on the BET cable television channel Never Die Alone. The author published the autobiography of his memoirs, E.A.R.L. in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX started in the business of music at 14 as a beatboxer at Ready Ron. After being imprisoned for stealing a dog, it was then that he began writing his own lyrics and performing at the local recreation center, which was for younger children. While in prison for carjacking, he started dedicating nearly all of his time to creating lyrics. He also had a meeting and rapped with K-Solo. The release came in the summer of 1988 and started to make and sell mixtapes of his own. In these mixtapes, the rapper rapped on songs from other artists and sold them on streets corners. This helped him establish his own fan base in New York. Percee P and DMX appeared on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, on which they improvised. [15The 15 DMX would release a demo tape later in the year. It featured "Spellbound" and "Critical Condition", three Little Pigs "The Original Author of Spellbound" as well as "Unstoppable force". It was very like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim and was not his later material. In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip hop artists without a contract. 16 Columbia Records signed DMX in 1991 to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records. This single was his first singles, "Born Loser". In 1994, he dropped "Make A Move", his second single. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo appeared as guests on the underground hit "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo, released in 1995. DMX died of a heart attack caused by cocaine on April 9, 2021.