DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18 in 1970. He passed away April 9 2021. His debut album It's dark and hell is hot released in 1998. The rapper began to rap in the 90s. 251,000 copies of the album were sold in its first week. In 1999, DMX released... and then There Was X. The album featured the smash hit track "Party up (Up in Here). The singles he released in 2003, "Where is the Hood At?" Commercially and his singles from 2003 "Where the Hood is at?" and "X Gon' give It to Ya" were extremely success. He was the first artist to ever have an album that debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 charts five times consecutively. Seven times in all, DMX sold over 74 million albums around the world. 8. DMX was in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds. In 2006, he starred in the reality TV series DMX: Soul of a Man which was broadcast by the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. In 2003, he wrote an autobiography entitled E.A.R.L. The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX was just 14 when he began beatboxing at Ready Ron. After getting incarcerated for stealing a dog, He began writing his own lyrics and performing at the local recreation center for younger youngsters. While in prison for carjacking he spent the majority of his time writing lyrics. He also started rapping with K.Solo. 3. When he was released the following summer the rapper began creating and selling mixtapes of his own that featured him rapping over instrumentals from other songs and sold them on streets that helped him establish an army of fans across New York. Percee P as well as DMX appeared on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, during which they performed their own freestyles. [15In the year [15] DMX would release the demo tape later in the year, which featured "Spellbound" as well as "Critical Condition" Three Little Pigs "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable force". It was quite similar to Big Daddy Kane or Rakim however it was not his later material. 3] In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip hop artists without a contract. In the same year, Columbia Records signed DMX to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records, which released his debut single "Born Loser". In 1994, he dropped "Make A Move" the second single from his debut album. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo were featured as guests on the underground hit "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo in the year 1995. DMX died of a cocaine-induced heartattack on April 9, 2021.