DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970 and died April 9, 2021. The album that he debuted on, It's dark and hot launched in 1998. The rapper began to rap in the 1990s. 251,000 copies of the album were sold within its first week. The album that DMX is best-selling,... and Then there Was X came out in 1999. The album also featured the hit single "Party Up (Up in Here). The singles he released in 2003, "Where is the Hood At?" Commercially, his 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon' give It to Ya" were very successful. He was also the first artist who reached No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart five consecutive times. Seven times DMX has sold over 74 million records worldwide. 8 DMX has been featured in films like 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. He was the lead character in DMX: Soul of a Man in 2006's reality TV show. It was broadcast via the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. He released an autobiography of his memoirs, E.A.R.L. in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. [9] DMX was 14 when he started beatboxing at Ready Ron. After a stint in prison and writing lyrics, he began to write his own lyrics and performed at the recreation center in town that was for children younger than he. While in prison for carjacking the majority of his time writing lyrics. He also started rapping with K.Solo. He was released in summer of 1988, and then began to create and sell his own mixtapes. In these mixtapes the rapper rapped on songs from other artists and sold them at street corners. This helped him create his own fan base in New York. DMX performed on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show in 1991 alongside Percee P who they both performed freestyles. [15"Spellbound" DMX would later release a demo cassette which featured "Spellbound" along with "Critical Condition", "Three Little Pigs", "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable Force". It was quite like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim and was not his later material. In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX in its Unsigned Hype section that featured hip-hop artists who were not signed. In the same year, Columbia Records signed DMX to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records, which released the debut single "Born Loser". 17. He released his second single "Make a Move" in the year 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rule and Mic Geronimo made a joint appearance on "Time to Build" which is the most well-known underground hit. DMX died in 2021 after suffering a heart attack due to cocaine.