Rapper and actor, Earl Simmons, popularly known as DMX is dead aged 50.
His family announced the death in a statement and his lawyer, Murray Richman on Sunday said that DMX had been hospitalized after a heart attack. He said he had no knowledge that DMX had suffered a drug overdose, as reported by TMZ.
DMX was known for iconic hip-hop songs and a gruff delivery.
He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies within its first week of release.
Earl Simmons was born Dec. 18, 1970, with various accounts giving his birthplace as Baltimore or Mount Vernon, N.Y. In his telling, he was raised by a single mother who once knocked out two of his teeth with a broom.
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