DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970 and died on April 9 2021. His debut album It's Hot and Dark, was released in 1998 to critical and commercial success. The album sold more than 251,000 copies in the first week. [5][66 DMX released his best-selling album, ... And Then There was X in 1999. The album included the hit track "Party Up (Up in Here)". The singles he released "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon Give It To Ya?" in 2003 were also commercially successful. The 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon Making It To Ya" were commercially successful. The singer was the first artist who reached No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart five consecutive times. 7. DMX sold more than 74 millions albums across the globe. [8] DMX was in movies such as Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave and Last Hour. In 2006, he played in the reality show DMX: Soul of a Man which was airing on the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. In 2003, he released the memoirs of his life entitled E.A.R.L. : The Autobiography of DMX. 9. DMX was 14 when he started beatboxing at Ready Ron. After getting a sentence for the stealing of the dog, he started to compose his own lyrics. He also played at the community recreation center that was for kids under age 14. While in prison for carjacking he began dedicating a large portion of his time creating lyrics. He also had a meeting and rapped with K-Solo. 3] After he was released in the summer of 1988, he began producing and selling mixtapes of his own that featured him rapping over instrumentals from songs. He sold them on street corners, which helped him build an army of fans all over New York. Percee P as well as DMX both did freestyles on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991. [15The 15-year-old DMX would soon make a demo disc featuring "Spellbound" along with "Critical Condition", Three Little Pigs", The Original Author of Spellbound and "Unstoppable Force" later that year. The design was like Big Daddy Kane's style and Rakim's but different from his later music. [3] In 1991 The Source magazine praised DMX as a Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip-hop artists that were not signed. In the same year, Columbia Records signed DMX to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records, which released the debut single "Born Loser". In 1994, he dropped "Make A Move" which was his second single. 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.