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ALBUMShut 'Em Down (Re-Recorded) - SingleOnyx & DMX
Albums by DMX
ALBUMExodus (Instrumentals & Acapellas)DMX
ALBUMExodusDMX
ALBUMDog Eats RabbitBlackburner & DMX
ALBUMUndisputedDMX
ALBUMThe Weigh InDMX
ALBUMMixtapeDMX
ALBUMYear of the Dog...AgainDMX
ALBUMGrand ChampDMX
ALBUMThe Great DepressionDMX
ALBUM...And Then There Was XDMX
DMX's Popular Music Videos
Come Back in One Piece (feat. DMX)
Aaliyah
How's It Goin' Down
DMX
Party Up (Up In Here)
DMX
Kant Nobody (feat. DMX)
Lil Wayne
X Gon' Give It to Ya
DMX
Ruff Ryders' Anthem
DMX
4,3,2,1
LL COOL J, Method Man, Redman, Canibus, DMX & Master P
Just in Case (feat. Swizz Beatz, Rick Ross & DMX)
Godfather of Harlem
Slippin'
DMX
I Miss You
DMX & Faith Evans
Artist Playlists
DMX Essentials
No one brought NY street rawness to the mainstream like X. RIP.
Inspired by DMX
Growling, menacing flows and banging hooks.
DMX: Deep Cuts
The defiantly tough New York rapper gets personal.
DMX: Influences
The grisly street cuts behind the growling rapper.
Artist Biography
With DMX, a man blessed with a vicious bark of a voice, there was no such thing as half-stepping. Born Earl Simmons in 1970, the Yonkers-raised MC arrived as the physical embodiment of unbridled energy—a one-man distillation of fellow rugged New York acts like Wu-Tang Clan. On his 1998 debut, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, DMX's aggressive vocals projected his imposing presence across songs like the minimal, clanging “Get at Me Dog” and rowdy breakout “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem.” But X scaled back the pugnacity on that same album’s introspective “How’s It Goin’ Down,” which featured R&B singer Faith Evans and painted a picture of a complex relationship headed down the wrong path. DMX would revisit that sensitivity on the heartfelt “Slippin’,” from 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, which found him expressing a desire to live a less tumultuous life. Though the rapper’s two sides may seem to have been at odds, he always thrived when he let his emotions fly unrestrained. In 1999, he released ...And Then There Was X, where even the anthemic “Party Up” served as a prime example of DMX's uniquely intense take on hardcore hip-hop. But whether ferocious, amped up, or introspective, the MC remained grounded by his faith, which, especially in the later years of his career, he approached with nothing short of absolute devotion. He died on April 9, 2021.
Hometown
Mount Vernon, NY, United States
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap