DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970, and died on April 9 2021. The album he released as his debut album It's Dark and hell is hot released in 1998. He began rapping around the 1990s. 251,000 copies were sold within its first week. [5][6] DMX's best-selling album,... 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 and his singles from 2003 "Where the Hood Is?" and "X Gon"X Gon Ya" were very success. The artist was the first to ever have an album debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200 charts five times consecutively. Seven times DMX sold more than 74 million albums in the world. 8. DMX has been featured in movies such as 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 appeared in the 2006 reality television series DMX. Soul of a Man. It was primarily aired by the BET cable television channel Never Die Alone. He published E.A.R.L., his memoirs in 2003. : The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX began his career in the music business at age 14 as a beatboxer in Ready Ron. After a stint in prison and writing lyrics, he began to write his own lyrics and performing at the local recreation center for kids younger than he. In 1988, when he was in prison for carjacking, he began dedicating almost all of his time writing lyrics , as well as meeting and rapping with K-Solo. 3. When he was released that summer after which he started creating and selling mixtapes of his own in which he rapped over the music from other songs. He also sold them on street corners, which helped him build a fan base locally all over New York. Percee P and DMX each performed freestyles on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991. [15] DMX will soon make a demo disc featuring "Spellbound" as well as "Critical Condition", Three Little Pigs", The Original Author of Spellbound, and "Unstoppable Force" later that year. It was quite similar to Big Daddy Kane or Rakim however it was not his later work. 3] In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column, which featured hip hop artists who were not signed. [16] Columbia Records signed DMX in 1991 to its subsidiary label Ruffhouse Records. This single was the first of his songs, "Born Loser". "17" His second single, "Make A Move" was released in the year 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo were featured as guests on the underground classic "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo, released in 1995. DMX died of a heart attack caused by cocaine on April 9 2021.