DMX

DMX was one of those rare artists where you felt the weight of a whole life in every bar — not just heard it, felt it. Earl Simmons came out of Mount Vernon, New York carrying a roughness that never felt performed; it was just who he was, and that rawness is exactly why records like "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot" hit so differently from anything else in late-'90s rap. He had an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, and four Grammy nominations to his name, but honestly, the accolades feel beside the point — nobody listened to DMX for the trophies. That growl, those ad-libs, that relentless cadence, and somehow underneath all the aggression a genuine vulnerability that came out in his prayers on record — there was nobody like him. Losing him in April 2021 at just fifty felt genuinely gutting. A one-of-a-kind voice, gone too soon.

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Name (English)

DMX

Name (Japanese)

DMX

Reading

でぃー・えむ・えっくす

Born

December 18, 1970 – April 9, 2021

Origin

Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Occupation

rapper / songwriter / actor / singer / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dmx/
• Xhttps://x.com/dmx
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX%20(%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223769

Tags

• New York
• rapper
• songwriter
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.