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DMX's 10 Best Musical Moments A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Earl Simmons didn’t come out of the womb raging, growling and barking like a pitbull. That sound, the hard sound of DMX, was built on a childhood filled with abuse and brutality. It was fueled by the violent complexities of life on the street, and fused by the bluntly poetic contemplation of right versus wrong, of God versus Satan, of dominance versus sublimation, and of how high one could go (or get) while remaining down-to-earth and righteously real. With that, DMX, who died Friday at age 50, was a portrait of h...

As one of the key forces behind hip-hop’s Ruff Ryders imprint and brand, DXM scored his biggest successes in the late 1990s and early 2000s as rap music exploded to new heights in commercial popularity. In that era, which saw the rise of acts such as Jay-Z and Eminem as hitmaking forces, DMX carved out a major piece of chart history for himself: His first five albums --  It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot (1998), Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood (1999), …And Then There Was X (2000), The Great Depression (2001) and Grand Champ (2003) -- all debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums cha...

DMX The hip-hop star, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was admitted to a New York hospital April 2 after a reported drug overdose. DMX, the New York rapper behind such iconic songs as "Party Up (Up in Here)" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya" and the star of action movies including  Exit Wounds, Romeo Must Die, died Friday. He was 50. DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died at White Plains Hospital in New York after being admitted April 2 following a drug overdose and subsequent heart attack. He had been on life support and, according to his former manager, in a "vegetative state."

Ja Rule, Jay-Z and DMX. CREDIT: Getty Images Ja Rule has recalled the struggles he endured when trying to get his supergroup with Jay-Z and DMX off the ground. In 1995, the ‘Livin’ It Up’ rapper joined forces with Jay and X to form the group Murder Inc. – a name which was later used for the Ja’s record label. The trio made their debut on Mic Geronimo’s ‘Time To Build’, taken from the New York rapper’s debut album, ‘The Natural’. The group would go on to connect, in variations, on several tracks throughout the 90s (most notably ‘It’s Murda’ and ‘Murdagram’), but...