DMX in general

DMX. Real name Earl Symmons. East coast hiphop artist. Figurehead of Ruff Riders. Four albums....blah blah blah. Contrary to others, i'm not going to bore you with useless facts and statistics. Firstly because i can't be bothered doing extensive research and secondly because its all about the music. An all too popular HipHop phrase is 'Keep it real.' That is 'Lest we forget our roots. We are from the ghetto and will always be from the ghetto....and so on.' This slogan is spouted by artist after artist, time after time and has been used to death to a point where it is a recognised cliche. However this slogan is at the core of DMX. His ...  Read the complete review

Dmx was born Earl Simmons in Baltimore, Maryland in the projects on the 18th of December 1970. Because of his are being a bad one his family knew he would get into a lot of trouble so they sent him off to live with his aunt in Yonkers, New York. Living with his aunt he showed musical talents. He was signed to Columbia records where his first album brought out. IT didn’t end up being very successful and he was told it was because he was to soft, so he decided to spend a few years away coming up with something rougher and harder. This year was 1996 a year of learning for Dark Man X, that is what dmx stands for. While he was preparing his harder album he appeared ...  Read the complete review

Real name Earl Simmon's, DMX stands for Dark Man X, he is an eastcoast rapper from Boltimore. He is married and was recently charged with assult. He has a dog called Nini. DMX also has a tatoo of his old pitbull on his back in memory of it. His single 'Whats my name' reached the top of the U.S charts and is on the album 'And then there was X', it's track number 10. He has had a long going fued with Westcoast repper Eminem and his group D-12 who wrote a song about DMX, thats why DMX wrote 'party up' which is partly about killing Eminem and dumping his body in a lake. D-12 did write another song about DMX which was ...  Read the complete review

For a long time all mc;'s were interested in talking about was 'b***ches, blunts and 40's'(some people cantr do anythiung else..huh Dre!!!!....at least write yo' own rh)ymes!!!!!)and then DMX came out....from Yonkers his debut album, 'its dark and hell is hot' spoke of his gritty existance and struggle, tracks such as 'let me fly' and 'stop being greefy' put an different spin on life, and hip hop history was made Four years on and three allbums alater DMX is now a major figure in hop hop and an mc of great magnitude, however 2 his greater vredit he established 'ruff ryders';arguably the best collection of ...  Read the complete review