Artist of the Month
DMX's new album cover.
DMX after the Source Awards.
June 1998's issue of The Source named Kurrupt, Silkk, DMX, Big Pun, Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz, Cam'ron, Nore, Cappadonna, 8ball, and Canibus the New Generation, the Young Guns of Hip hop. Only two graduated with honors and of those two, one died (RIP Pun), and then there was X. DMX, has barked and growled his way to the top with his too raw for MTV lyrics. DMX is definitely one of hip hop's Big Dogs.
Earl Simmons, was born in Yonkers, New York in the School Street projects. He was raised by his mother, he was the only male in the house around his sisters. He was an outcast. He was poor and the kids dissed him so he found loyality in his pit bull, Boomer. He said that a dog is gonna be loyal to you no matter what. Boomer was his best friend and DMX trusted no one else.
Writing rhymes was something X was obsessed with. When he was in jail or robbing people, he was writing ryhmes. He was getting better and better.
DMX has been in the rap game for a while. In 1991, he was featured in The Source's Unsigned Hype and his first single "Born Loser" was released in 1992. The dark song was about his life. It didn't pick up because people weren't really for this darker side. Remember 1992, Kris Kross' "Jump Jump" was bumping in jeeps. DMX was too real for the people, truely and artist ahead of his time.
DMX started ryhming on DJ Clue? mixtapes, on songs like LL's "4,3,2,1" and the LOX's "Money, Power, Respect". And in 1998, he relesed the single that would make him known to everyone, "Get At Me Dog". This song became the anthem of '98. Everyone was saying it or singing it. This song had people begging for more. Who's this DMX? When this song played at he clubs even the hardest thug was on the dancfloor.
Hype Williams, saw DMX's talent and offerred him the role of Tommy Buns, a big time hustler, his the movie Belly, which also starred Nas and Method Man.
X is often compared to Tupac because they were both so talented and had a dark side to them. They were true poets, saying anything that they felt no matter if they offended people. DMX rhymes for the love of it not the money or the glory, and this is what's makes a real MC.
I remember the first time I heard DMX, it was on Mase's "24 Hours To Live". That was my favorite song off Harlem World. If I was chilling with my friends and they had the album I was like put on that song with DMX. It was DMX's voice and his rhymes that got me. He was so passionate about what he's saying. I right away remembered the name DMX and looked out for him on songs. Next was "24 Hours To Live" and "Get At Me Dog" and forget about it, the rest is history.
Dmx went on to release, "Flesh of my Flesh Blood of my Blood" in 1999 making him the only artist to release two albums wihtin one year that went to the top of the charts. In 2000, he released "...And Then There Was X". He has also gone on to do movies like "Exit Wounds" with Steven Segal.
On October 23, 2001, DMX will released his fourth album entitled "The Great Depression".
DMX's new album cover.
DMX after the Source Awards.
Earl Simmons, was born in Yonkers, New York in the School Street projects. He was raised by his mother, he was the only male in the house around his sisters. He was an outcast. He was poor and the kids dissed him so he found loyality in his pit bull, Boomer. He said that a dog is gonna be loyal to you no matter what. Boomer was his best friend and DMX trusted no one else.
Writing rhymes was something X was obsessed with. When he was in jail or robbing people, he was writing ryhmes. He was getting better and better.
DMX has been in the rap game for a while. In 1991, he was featured in The Source's Unsigned Hype and his first single "Born Loser" was released in 1992. The dark song was about his life. It didn't pick up because people weren't really for this darker side. Remember 1992, Kris Kross' "Jump Jump" was bumping in jeeps. DMX was too real for the people, truely and artist ahead of his time.
DMX started ryhming on DJ Clue? mixtapes, on songs like LL's "4,3,2,1" and the LOX's "Money, Power, Respect". And in 1998, he relesed the single that would make him known to everyone, "Get At Me Dog". This song became the anthem of '98. Everyone was saying it or singing it. This song had people begging for more. Who's this DMX? When this song played at he clubs even the hardest thug was on the dancfloor.
Hype Williams, saw DMX's talent and offerred him the role of Tommy Buns, a big time hustler, his the movie Belly, which also starred Nas and Method Man.
X is often compared to Tupac because they were both so talented and had a dark side to them. They were true poets, saying anything that they felt no matter if they offended people. DMX rhymes for the love of it not the money or the glory, and this is what's makes a real MC.
I remember the first time I heard DMX, it was on Mase's "24 Hours To Live". That was my favorite song off Harlem World. If I was chilling with my friends and they had the album I was like put on that song with DMX. It was DMX's voice and his rhymes that got me. He was so passionate about what he's saying. I right away remembered the name DMX and looked out for him on songs. Next was "24 Hours To Live" and "Get At Me Dog" and forget about it, the rest is history.
Dmx went on to release, "Flesh of my Flesh Blood of my Blood" in 1999 making him the only artist to release two albums wihtin one year that went to the top of the charts. In 2000, he released "...And Then There Was X". He has also gone on to do movies like "Exit Wounds" with Steven Segal.
On October 23, 2001, DMX will released his fourth album entitled "The Great Depression".
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