Remembering DMX
Legendary and multi-platinum selling rapper and the first artist ever to debut at No.1 five times in a row on Billboard’s Hot 200 Albums Chart, DMX, died on April 9, at White Plains Hospital in New York with his family by his side. He was 50. He was rushed to the hospital late in the evening on Friday April 2, in critical condition following a heart attack at his home. Early reports stated it was drug related. Born Earl Simmons in 1970 in Mount Vernon, New York (other reports list Baltimore, Maryland as his birthplace) to teenage parents. Raised primarily …