DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons was born December 18, 1970, and died on April 9, 2021. His debut album It's Dark and Hot, was released in 1998 to critical and commercial satisfaction. The album sold more than 251,000 copies in its first week. [5][6] DMX's best-selling album,... and Then There Was X, was released in 1999. It also contained the smash single "Party Up (Up In Here). His singles from 2003, "Where is the Hood At?" The 2003 singles, "Where the Hood at?" and "X Gon' Make It To Ya" were commercially successful. The artist was the first in history to make an album release at No.1 in the Billboard 200 charts five times consecutively. [7] DMX sold more than 74 million albums around the world. [8] DMX appeared in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds. In 2006, he starred in the reality series DMX: Soul of a Man, which was primarily aired on the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. The author published an autobiography of his memoirs, E.A.R.L. in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX started in the business of music at 14 when he was a beatboxer with Ready Ron. After getting a sentence for the stealing of the dog, he started to compose his own lyrics. He also performed at a local recreation center for children younger than 14 years old. While in prison for carjacking, he started dedicating nearly all of his time to writing lyrics. He also met and performed with K-Solo. 3] After he was released in the summer the rapper began making and selling mixtapes of his own in which he rapped over the instrumentals from other songs and sold them on streets that helped him establish a local fan base across New York. Percee P as well as DMX were featured on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, during which they improvised. [15"Spellbound" DMX would later that year release a demo tape that featured "Spellbound" alongside "Critical Condition", "Three Little Pigs", "The Original Author of Spellbound" and "Unstoppable Force". It was extremely similar to Big Daddy Kane or Rakim but it wasn't his later material. Three years ago, The Source magazine praised DMX for his Unsigned Hype column which highlighted unsigned hip hop artists. In the year 1991, Columbia Records signed DMX as a subsidiary label for Ruffhouse Records. The single, "Born Loser", was his debut single. 17. He released his second single "Make the Move" in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo appeared as guests on the underground hit "Time to Build" from Mic Geronimo in 1995. DMX died of a heart attack triggered by cocaine on April 9 2021.