Dmx, the dog of the squad was born December 18,1970 in Baltimore, Maryland. His family knew that in the area that they were living in would bring trouble to Earl so the sent him to Yonkers, New york to live with his aunt. There his showed a talent in music. He was signed to Columbia Records where his first album was brought out called Born Loser. Peepz wasn't felling him thin in 1996... so he had come out with something rougher and harder. Thats when he started appearing on artists songs such as LL Cool J, John Forte, The Lox, Ma$e and many more. Peepz was feeling him then so he knew he had to come out with something strong to keep his image alive. That's when 1998 came around and he brought out "It's Dark and Hell is Hot" was under Def Jams Records which sold 3 million copies. Now he is one of the best Eastcoast rappers alive. He says he started rappibg for the ladies and if he wasn't the best rapper right now he would stop rapping... but luckly he is. The human embodiment of such exhalarating and unadulterated chaos exists in none other then Ruff Ryders/Def Jam's very latist lyrical sensation, DMX. "I love to write rhymes" says the Yonkers-born MC. "I love to express what real niggas feel,what street niggas feel. They need to be heard. They need to know there is a voice that speaks for them, and I am that voice"
Despite all the excitement that currently surrounds him, only a select, informed crew of heads may recall DMX's first go around(with the 1992 promotional single, "Born Loser") for Columbia Records. LIke many talented MC's sihned to their first deal, x was left in the unfortunate scenario of languishing while other artists on the labels roster prospread. Columbia tried to put me behind other groups," DMX reflects ont he situation. "They were like, Well, we're gonna put out Kriss Kross, the we're gonna put out Cypress Hill and then we're put you out." And I was like"Well I;m better then all of them niggas." When someone came in and said " Somebody needs to make money off this nigga cuz he's hot!" Thats when Irv Gotti brought me to Lyor Cohen at Def Jam. I guess it's that point now. I guess the world wasn't ready for the gutter till now. Now they ready for the gutter shit, so nowthey get the fuckin gutter." Having orinally earned his name by way of his human beat boxing expertise, DMX later experimented with other acronyms true to his evolving, revolutionary vocal steez(Divine Master of the Unknown) while honing his skills around his home in Yonkers' School Street Projects. Along the way, he bumped heads and built long-lasting friendships woth fellow Y-O residents and Bad Boy recording artists, The Lox. " Those are the pups," DMX says of Bad Boy latest rising stars. "I trianed'em, raised'em, they doin' their thing and I'm proud of them. I didn't teach 'em everything they know cuz they were doing it before me, but I influenced them." With the entire Yonkers crew helping out on It's Dark and Hell is Hot, on the smoldering "Niggaz Done Started Something," the bonds abviously remain strong. The album's additional sterling guest spots include Brooklyn's finest, Jay-Z, adding his acid-tongued with wisdomto the downtempo stinger,"Murdergram" along-side Ja who makes an impactful debut.
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