1, a feat no rapper has matched before or since. Signed to Def Jam Recordings, his first five albums all debuted at No. He spent his final days on life support at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County after suffering a heart attack on April 2.ĭMX was one of the most recognizable M.C.s in the late 1990s and early 2000s, years when hardcore New York rap could still stake a claim as hip-hop’s central concern.
Earl Simmons, the gruff, evocative rapper from Yonkers, N.Y., better known as DMX, died on Friday at 50.
