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 ...

On this day in Hip Hop history DMX released his debut album It‘s Dark and Hell Is Hot. This is DMX’s most popular project to date, with Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood serving as a close second.

Discover What’s Streaming On: When Earl “DMX” Simmons died last week at the age of 50, tributes to the “Party Up (Up In Here)” and “Ruff Ryders Anthem” rapper flooded the social media landscape, with ...

Behind The Beat is a new series where journalist Thomas Hobbs interviews rap producers about the making of their most iconic beat. For the first edition, he spoke with Dame Grease about crafting DMX's ...

One unsettling sign of how big the business for posthumous hip-hop albums has become: DMX’s “Exodus,” which arrives just weeks after the gravel-voiced rapper’s death on April 9 at age 50, does so ...