DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18, 1970, and died on April 9, 2021. The album he released as his debut album It's Dark and hell is hot was launched in 1998. He began rapping during the 90s. 251,000 copies were sold within the first week. In 1999, DMX released... and Then There Was X. It featured the hit song "Party up (Up in Here). His singles "Where is the Hood At?" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya?" in 2003 were also commercial successes. and "X Going to Give It To Ya" are also commercially successful. He was the first artist to have an album debut at No.1 five times in one week on the Billboard 200 charts. 7. DMX sold more than 74 million albums worldwide. 8 DMX was featured in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave and Last Hour. In 2006, he appeared in the reality TV series DMX: Soul of a Man that was airing by the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. In 2003, he released the memoirs of his life entitled E.A.R.L. : The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX started in the music industry at 14 as a beatboxer at Ready Ron. After a stint in prison and writing lyrics, he began to write his own lyrics and performed in the local recreation center, which was for children younger than him. In 1988, while being in prison for carjacking he began dedicating almost all of his spare time creating lyrics, and also to meeting and rapping with K-Solo. 3] After he was released in the summer, he began creating and selling mixtapes of his own where he rapped over instrumentals from other songs and sold them on street corners and helped build a fan base locally all over New York. Percee P as well as DMX appeared on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, during which they performed freestyles. [1515 DMX released a demo tape later on the year. It featured "Spellbound" as well as "Critical Condition", three Little Pigs "The Original Author of Spellbound", and "Unstoppable force". The style was similar to Big Daddy Kane's and Rakim's, but it was different from his later material. Three years ago, The Source magazine praised DMX in its Unsigned Hype column , which highlighted hip-hop artists that were not signed. The same year, Columbia Records signed DMX to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records, which released his first single "Born Loser". "17" His second single, "Make A Move" was released in the year 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo were featured as guests on the underground classic "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo in the year 1995. DMX died of a cocaine-induced heartattack on April 9 2021.