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People thought about hip-hop as being negative, but he brought fun to hip-hop.” His “energy was just amazing, and it was different from what everybody else was doing.
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“There is nobody like DMX,” Thomas told The Post. DMX was one of the biggest players in the commercial hip-hop world, selling a record-amount of albums in his early career. “DMX delivered heartfelt, honest music, the vibration that filled the void after the loss of Tupac ,” Paradise Gray, chief curator at the Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM), told The Post.Īnd seeing him onstage was a certain kind of magic, added Shawn “Cutman LG” Thomas, head of music programming for the UHHM. He went on to be one of the most successful commercial rappers of all time - for a good reason. He made his name battling in street circles and had an infamous battle with Jay-Z back in 1993 before the two were famous. However the New York native - born Earl Simmons in Mount Vernon and raised in Yonkers - was as talented as he was troubled. Wife of Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Clarence Avant shot, killed in home invasionĭMX was a hardcore rapper who lived a hard life - and ultimately died from it.īut for true fans, that’s not what he’ll be remembered for.įrom his struggles with substance abuse - with an overdose triggering a heart attack that led to his death at 50 on Friday at White Plains Hospital - to his run-ins with the law, he had fallen from the heights that had once made him one of hip-hop’s biggest stars. ‘Laverne & Shirley’ actor Eddie Mekka, ‘The Big Ragu’ dead at 69 ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ star Jonshel Alexander dead at 22 ‘America’s Got Talent’ star Jay Jay Phillips dead from COVID-19