DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18 in 1970. He passed away on April 9, 2021. The album that he debuted on, It's dark and hell is hot released in 1998. He began rapping around the 1990s. 251,000 copies were sold within the first week. [5][6(6 DMX released his top-selling album, ... And Then There Was X in 1999. The album included the hit track "Party Up (Up in Here)". The songs he sang "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon Give It to You?" in 2003 were also a commercial success. Commercially as well as his singles from 2003 "Where the Hood Is?" and "X Gon Give It to Ya" were also popular. The artist was the first to make an album No.1 five times in a row on the Billboard 200 charts. 7 DMX has sold over 74,000,000 records worldwide. 8. DMX has appeared in movies 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. In 2006, he played in the reality TV series DMX: Soul of a Man, which was primarily shown by the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. He published an autobiography of his personal memoirs, E.A.R.L. in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX was just 14 when he beatboxed in Ready Ron. After getting a sentence for the stealing of an animal, he began to write his own lyrics. He also performed at the local recreation centre for children under age 14. In prison for carjacking he spent the majority of his time writing lyrics. He also began rapping with K.Solo. He was released in the summer of 1988 and started to release and market mixtapes of his own. In these mixes, his raps were a re-mix of songs by other artists and sold them on street corners. This helped him establish a fanbase in New York. Percee P as well as DMX were featured on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, on which they performed their own freestyles. [15] DMX would later release a demo cassette featuring "Spellbound" along with "Critical Condition", "Three Little Pigs", "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable Force". It was very similar to Big Daddy Kane or Rakim and was not his later work. In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column, which featured unsigned hip hop artists. [16] In the year 1991, Columbia Records signed DMX as a subsidiary label to Ruffhouse Records. The single, "Born Loser", was his first single. 17 years later, he dropped his follow-up single "Make a Move" in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rule and Mic Geronimo made an appearance on "Time to Build" the cult underground hit. DMX died in 2021 after a cocaine-induced heart attack.