DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970, and died on April 9 2021. The album that he debuted on, It's dark and hot launched in 1998. He started rapping in the 1990s. 251,000 copies 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 2003 singles "Where is the Hood At?" His 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon Making It To Ya", were also commercially profitable. He was the first artist to release an album that reached No.1 five times in a row on the Billboard 200 charts. [7] DMX has sold over 74 million albums around the world. 8 DMX was in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds. In 2006, he played in the reality television series DMX: Soul of a Man, which was primarily shown on the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. He released E.A.R.L., his memoirs in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX was just 14 when he beatboxed at Ready Ron. After serving time for the theft of the dog, he started to write his own lyrics. He also performed at a community recreation center that was for kids less than 14 years old. In 1988, while in prison for carjacking he began dedicating almost all of his spare time writing lyrics as well as having a rap session with K-Solo. He was released in summer of 1988, and then began to create and sell his own mixtapes. In these mixtapes, he rapped over songs from other artists and sold them on street corners. This helped him establish a fanbase in New York. Percee P and DMX both performed freestyles on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show in 1991. [15] DMX would later release a demo cassette featuring "Spellbound" together with "Critical Condition", "Three Little Pigs", "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable Force". It was extremely like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim but it wasn't his later material. Three years ago, The Source magazine praised DMX as a Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip-hop artists that were not signed. [16] In 1991, Columbia Records signed DMX as a sub-label to Ruffhouse Records. The single, "Born Loser", was his first single. 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 classic "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo in the year 1995. DMX died of a heart attack caused by cocaine on April 9 2021.