DMX

American actor and rapper Earl Simmons, born December 18, 1970, and died April 9 2021. He began his rap career in the early 1990s . He released his debut album , It's Dark and Hell is Hot in 1998, to the delight of critics and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies in the first week of release. [5][6] In 1999, DMX released... and then there was X. It included the smash 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 commercial hits. and "X I'm Going to Give It To Ya" are also commercially successful. The artist was the first in history to have an album debut at No.1 in the Billboard 200 charts five times consecutively. Seven times DMX sold more than 74 million albums worldwide. [8] DMX was in films like Belly, Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds. He appeared as DMX: Soul of a Man in the reality TV series. This was primarily aired via the BET cable television network Never Die Alone. He wrote E.A.R.L., his memoirs in 2003. The Autobiography of DMX. 9 DMX was introduced to the world of music at 14 as a beatboxer in Ready Ron. After serving time in prison then he began writing his own lyrics , and also performing in the local recreation center for kids who were younger than he. In prison for carjacking it was his favorite time to spend his time writing lyrics. He also began to rap with K.Solo. 3. When he was released in the summer He began creating and selling mixtapes of his own where he performed raps over instrumentals from other songs and sold them on street corners which helped him develop a fan base locally across New York. Percee P and DMX performed on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show 1991, in which they improvised. [15In the year [15] DMX would release an album of demos later in the year. It featured "Spellbound" in addition to "Critical Condition", three Little Pigs "The Original Author of Spellbound" as well as "Unstoppable force". It was extremely like Big Daddy Kane or Rakim and was not his later material. 3] In 1991, The Source magazine praised DMX as an Unsigned Hype column that featured unsigned hip-hop artists. [16] In the year 1991, Columbia Records signed DMX as a subsidiary label for Ruffhouse Records. The single, "Born Loser", was his debut single. The 17-year-old released his second single "Make the Move" in 1994. Jay-Z, Ja Rules, and Mic Gérardo were featured as guests on the underground hit "Time to Build" by Mic Geronimo in 1995. DMX died of a heart attack caused by cocaine on the 9th of April, 2021.