DMX

Earl Simmons December 18 1970 April 9 2021 better known by his stage name DMX was an American rapper and actor who rose to fame in the late 1990s His stage name pays tribute to the Oberheim DMX drum machine an instrument he used when he made his own rap beats in the 80s To date his bestselling album is his 1999 album And Then There Was X which featured the hit single Party Up Up in Here As an actor he also starred in the films Belly Romeo Must Die Exit Wounds Cradle 2 The Grave and Last Hour and his own reality television series Soul of a Man on the American cable television network BET In 2002 DMX wrote an autobiographical book titled EARL The Autobiography of DMX