DMX s tribute, including final interview, airs tonight on TV One mix957.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mix957.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DMX, Rapper Who Blended Aggressive Menace With Emotional Sincerity, Dead at 50
The influential MC’s chart-topping career included five Number One albums, but was beset by drug and legal issues. He died following a heart attack
Earl Simmons, the rapper better known as DMX, died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, one week after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old.
Simmons’ family said they were “deeply saddened” to announce the rapper’s death, adding that he died “with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days.”
The fiancée of the late DMX paid tribute to the legendary rapper on Instagram, some eight days after his tragic death following a heart attack.
Desiree Lindstrom, who s also the mother of his 15th child, posted an old romantic photo of herself going cheek-to-cheek with DMX, as he lovingly looks down at her. The first night we met and you held me close. I knew I would never let go. I was lost in you and nothing else mattered, she gushed in the caption before giving thanks for her longtime love and their son. My best friend, my baby, my love.truly my everything. Thank you for us. Thank you for Exodus. Thank you God for Earl Simmons.forever X.
DMX to Be Honored at a Public Memorial Service at Brooklyn s Barclays Center msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rapper DMX performs onstage during the 2017 Soulquarius Festival at The Observatory on February 18, 2017 in Santa Ana, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
DMX was born, Earl Simmons, in Baltimore, on December 18th, 1970. He later moved with his mother to Yonkers in New York where his early years would prove to be tumultuous. His father Joe Baker left the family when X was very young. His mother Arnett Simmons beat him badly and was largely negligent.
He often got into fights at school and, at the age of seven, was jailed for stealing cakes from a market. At the age of 10, his mother enrolled him into a children’s home without his knowledge by tricking him into believing that they were just visiting the home. He was later arrested for arson for trying to burn the children’s home down.