TRUE CRIME
Every Crime the Rapper DMX Has Ever Committed
How Earl Simmons rose from the streets to be a Hip-Hop legend and fell to the abyss of crime and drug addiction.
At the end of the 1990s, DMX (Earl Simmons) was a big deal in the music industry. Coming from a rough and challenging background, he built his local fan base in New York by selling his own mixtapes on street corners. When he decided to take his rap career more seriously, he was doing prison time for carjacking and extortion. Over three decades, he was incarcerated at least thirty times.
In 1998, with his first album, It’s Dark and Hell is Hot, his professional music career blew up, and his troubled life filled with crime grew simultaneously.
Abusive Childhood
Earl Simmons a.k.a. DMX was born on December 18, 1970. His parents, Arnett Simmons and Joe Barker were barely adults at the time. His father abandoned the family as soon as Earl was born. His toxic relationship with his mother began from a very young age, and it became even more difficult when he was diagnosed with bronchial asthma. As a child, he was taken to the hospital due to waking up almost every night because he couldn’t breathe.
