While everyone might be familiar with those headlines, let's take a look behind the fame and fortune at what many might not know about one of the industry's most successful musicians. He was heading back to a group home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, with the suspiciously innocent-sounding name of Children's Village. He was sentenced to jail somewhere around 30 times, on charges that include things like drug possession, robbery, reckless driving, and weapons possession (via the BBC).ĭMX had medical issues, too: In 2016, he "stopped breathing" while in a New York parking lot, and just five years later - at just 50-years-old - he suffered a catastrophic and ultimately fatal heart attack on April 9, 2021. DMX was riding along on a high point in 1999 he had released two albums that went straight to the top, but an announcement from MTV suggested that he wasn't about to forget where he came from.
DMX lived through an abusive childhood and struggled with fatherhood himself, eventually acknowledging his 15 children by 10 different women (via Nicki Swift). Also in the "awesome category"? He saw two of his albums go platinum (i.e., sell more than a million copies) in the same year, and he even made a successful jump into Hollywood as an actor.īut in between those highs have been a lot of lows. But it's extra true of some people - like Earl Simmons, better known as DMX. For starters, there were some pretty wild highs: GQ says that as of 2019, he remained the only rapper to debut his five first studio albums at the Billboard 200's Number One spot. He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies within its first week of release.
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Life is full of ups and downs, and that's true of pretty much everyone sharing this crazy globe we call Earth. Earl Simmons (Decem April 9, 2021), known by his stage name DMX ('Dark Man X'), was an American rapper and actor.
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