Artist: DMX Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop
Discography:
Year Of The Dog... Again Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Pump Ya Fist (feat. Swizz Beats) Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Live and Uncensored Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Where The Hood At? Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
The DMX Files-CD Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Grand Champion Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Touch Me! Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
The Early Years Year: 2002
Tracks: 23
Rap Sheet Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Murder Inc. Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Best of DMX (Limited Edition) Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
The Great Depression Year: 2001
Tracks: 17
The 24th Letter Year: 2001
Tracks: 17
Simzz beatz Present-The best of custom dmx Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Millenium Hits Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Live At Woodstock Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Get At Me Dog EP Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
...And Then There Was X Year:
Tracks: 18
Following the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., DMX took over as the regnant, unchallenged world-beater of hardcore rap. He was that rare commodity: a commercial powerhouse with artistic and street credibility to spare. His rapid raise to stardom was actually nearly a x in the devising, which gave him a probability to develop the theatrical look-alike that made him one of rap's about distinctive personalities during his bloom. Everything about DMX was unremittingly acute, from his hefty, tattooed habitus to his husky, barking delivery, which made a perfect match for his hallmark lyrical compulsion with dogs. Plus, there was center behindhand the style; very much of his work was tied together by a fascination with the split between the sacred and the blasphemous. He could be active from phantasmal torment unrivalled minute of arc to a tale around the sins of the streets the following, yet stay fresh it all share of the same complex role, sort of like a rap Johnny Cash. The results were compelling sufficiency to construct DMX the outset creative person of all time to have his number 1 four-spot albums recruit the charts at number one and only.
DMX was born Earl Simmons in Baltimore, MD, on December 18, 1970. He affected with portion of his kinfolk to the New York City suburbia of Yonkers piece still a thomas Young kid. A troubled and abusive puerility off him vehement, and he played out a great deal of time living in mathematical group homes and surviving on the streets via robbery, which light-emitting diode to several run-ins with the law of nature. He base his deliverance grace in rap, starting kO'd as a DJ and human beatbox, and later touched into rapping for a greater share of the spotlight, taking his name from the DMX digital drum simple machine (though it's also been reinterpreted to mean "Dark Man X"). He made a name for himself on the freestyle battle shot and was written up in The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype column in 1991. Columbia subsidiary Ruffhouse signed him to a deal the following year and released his debut single, "Born Loser." However, a surplus of talent on the Ruffhouse roster left DMX underpromoted, and the label in agreement to handout him from his sign up. He issued one further single in 1994, "Make a Move," only was convicted of do drugs possession that same year, the biggest offence of several on his disk.
DMX began to reconstruct his life history with an show on i of DJ Clue?'s resistance mixtapes. In 1997, he earned a arcsecond major-label shot, with Def Jam, and made a galvanic node appearance on LL Cool J's "4, 3, 2, 1." Further invitee muscae volitantes on Mase's "24 Hours to Live" and fellow Yonkers MCs the LOX's "Money, Power & Respect" created an even stronger buzz, and in early 1998, he released his debut Def Jam single, "Get at Me Dog." The strain was a gold-selling smash on the rap and dance charts and paved the way for DMX's full-length debut,
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, to debut at number one on the pop out charts. Produced mostly by Swizz Beatz, wHO rode the album's success to a lucrative life history of his possess,
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot earned DMX legion comparisons to 2Pac for his stentorian, aggressive front on the mic and went on to sell all over quaternion zillion copies. Not long after the album's handout in May 1998, DMX was accused of raping a sprigger in the Bronx only was later exculpated by DNA evidence. He went to score his lineament photographic film debut co-starring in Hype Williams' ambitious but abortive
Belly.
Before the destruction of 1998, DMX completed his arcsecond album and a pending buyout of Def Jam pushed the record book into stores that December. Featuring a controversial cover photo of the knocker covered in blood,
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood entered the charts at turn one and eventually went triple atomic number 78. The undermentioned year, DMX strike the road with Jay-Z and the Method Man/Redman squad on the smash hit Hard Knock Life hitch. During a tour stop in Denver, a warrantee for his halt was issued in connexion with a lancinate, of which he was later cleared; some other incident occurred in May, when he was accused of assaulting a Yonkers man who'd allegedly pestered his wife (the charges were erst once more dropped). More good charges were brought that summer, when DMX's uncle/manager was circumstantially shot in the foot at a New Jersey hotel. Police afterwards raided DMX's home and filed animal ruthlessness, weapons, and drug possession charges against the rapper and his married woman; he eventually plea-bargained down pat to fines, probation, and community service of process. In the midst of those difficulties, the Ruff Ryders posse -- of which DMX was a congress of Racial Equality, innovation member -- released a showcase compiling,
Ryde or Die, Vol. 1. With contributions from DMX, as substantially as Eve, the LOX, and multiple guests,
Ryde or Die, Vol. 1 debuted at number one in the spring of 1999, further cementing DMX's Midas touch.
Toward the goal of 1999, DMX released his third album,
...And Then There Was X, which became his third square to debut at number unitary. It also produced his biggest reach single since "Buzz off at Me Dog," "Party Up (Up in Here)," which became his first base Top Ten hit on the R&B charts. The follow-ups "What You Want" and "What's My Name?" were also quite popular, and their success helped make
...And Then There Was X the rapper's best-selling album to date, moving over v meg copies. During its run, DMX returned to the bragging screen with a major load-bearing persona in the Jet Li action flick
Romeo Must Die. In the meanwhile, he was indicted by a Westchester County, NY, howling jury on weapons and do drugs charges in June of 2000. He also entangled himself in a prolonged legal battle with constabulary in Cheektowaga, NY (near Buffalo), when he was arrested in March for driving without a license and possession of marihuana. He lost one tourist court date, and when he turned himself in that May, constabulary ascertained more marihuana in a pack of cigarettes the rapper had brought with him. He pleaded shamefaced and was sentenced to 15 days in gaol, and his invoke to have the sentence reduced was eventually denied in early 2001. After stall for several weeks, he turned himself in and was charged with disrespect of court. He was further charged with assault when, upon encyclopedism he would non be have out early for proficient behaviour, he allegedly threw a food tray at a mathematical group of prison officers. He afterwards bargained the charges grim to reckless assault and paying a fine, and accused guards of roughing him up and causation a minor leg wound.
Not tenacious afterward DMX's release from clink, his in vogue motion-picture show, the Steven Seagal action film
Departure Wounds, open at act unitary in the box authority. DMX also contributed the reach single "No Sunshine" to the soundtrack and gestural a multi-picture deal with Warner Bros. in the wake of
Exit Wounds' success. With his legal problems last resolved, he returned to the studio apartment and completed his fourth record album, the more than introverted
The Great Depression. It was released in the fall of 2001 and became his fourth straight album to debut at numeral ane. Although it went platinum quick, it didn't take the same shelf life as his former releases. In late 2002, DMX published his memoirs as E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX and too recorded several tracks with Audioslave (i.e., the former Rage Against the Machine). One of their collaborations, "Hither I Come," was featured on the soundtrack of DMX's adjacent film, a reunion with Jet Li called
Cradle 2 the Grave. The photographic film opened at act one upon its release in March 2003, and its DMX-heavy soundtrack debuted in the Top Ten.
Gilded Champ was released vI months by and by, followed by 2006's
Twelvemonth of the Dog... Again. Just prior to that album's discharge, his telling BET reality program made its debut.
