DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18 in 1970. He died April 9, 2021. He began rapping in the early 1990s . He released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, which received both critical acclaim as well as commercial success, selling 251,000 copies in the first week of release. In 1999, DMX released... and then there was X. The album included the smash hit track "Party up (Up in Here). His 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" and "X Will Give It to Ya" are also commercially successful. He was also the first artist to reach No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart five consecutive times. [7] DMX has sold over 74,000,000 records all over the world. [8] DMX was featured in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, as well as Last Hour. In 2006, he appeared in the reality show DMX: Soul of a Man that was aired on the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. He wrote an autobiography of his personal memoirs, E.A.R.L. in 2003. : The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX was 14 when he beatboxed in Ready Ron. After being sentenced for the theft of the dog, he started to write lyrics of his own. He also played at the community recreation center that was for kids less than 14 years old. In 1988, when he was in prison for carjacking he began dedicating almost all of his free time to creating lyrics, and also to meeting with K-Solo and rapping. The mixtapes he sold were made and sold when the release of his prison for carjacking. [3] This helped to establish an audience within New York. Percee P and DMX performed on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, where they performed freestyles. [1515 DMX was soon to release a demo tape featuring "Spellbound" along with "Critical Condition", Three Little Pigs", The Original Author of Spellbound and "Unstoppable Force" in the following year. It was extremely like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim but it wasn't his later material. [3] In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX in its Unsigned Hype column that highlighted hip-hop artists without a contract. In 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 Rules, and Mic Gérardo were guests on the underground classic "Time to Build" by Mic Geronimo in the year 1995. DMX died of a heart attack caused by cocaine on April 9 2021.