DMX Prayer Vigil Today | Statement from The Family
On Friday night, April 2nd, 2021, our brother, son, father and colleague DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, was admitted to White Plains (NY) Hospital, facing serious health issues.
We ask that you please keep Earl/DMX and us in your thoughts, wishes, and prayers as well as respect our privacy as we face these challenges.
– The Family of Earl Simmons a/k/a DMX
The Ruff Ryders To The Rescue Foundation will have a prayer vigil outside of White Plains Hospital (41 East Post Road, White Plains NY) on Monday, April 5th, 2021 at 5 pm EST.
The press is welcome. Please be respectful of the hospital and its staff.
DMX is the only artist in history to have five consecutive albums debut No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. That they were the first albums of his career makes his success even more astonishing. In 1998, “Get At Me Dog” (featuring Sheek of the Lox) not only cracked the R&B/Hip-hop Top 20, Rap Top 10 and Pop Top 40 but went gold, appearing on the quadruple platinum It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot, which also included the Top 10 Rap “Stop Being Greedy,” Top 40 R&B “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” (he was a founding member of that group), Top 20 R&B “How’s It Goin’ Down” and “Damien.”
The release of Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood later that year marked DMX as only the second rapper to have two albums debut at No. 1 in one year; the first being 2Pac. The triple-platinum album boasted “It’s All Good” and “Slippin’.” Also in 1998 he debuted on film in Belly, whose “Grand Finale” (DMX, Method Man, Nas and Ja Rule) went Top 20 Rap from the soundtrack.
…And Then There Was X appeared in 1999, again debuting at No. 1. The club banger “What’s My Name?” (Top 15 Rap), party anthem “Party Up (Up In Here)” (Top 10 Rap), “What These Bitches Want” (featuring Sisqo) (Top 25 Rap), “One More Road To Cross” and “Here We Go Again” propelled the album to five times platinum. 2001’s platinum The Great Depression spun off a pair of spirited Top 10 Rap anthems–“Who We Be” and “We Right Here.”
In 2003, the soundtrack album to his next film, Cradle 2 The Grave, contributed “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” (Top 20 Rap). He also unleashed the platinum Grand Champ. His fifth straight to debut at the top spot, the album included a Swizz Beatz classic in “Get It On The Floor,” “Where The Hood At?” (Top 15 Rap) and “The Rain.” After signing to another label, his next album debuted at No. 2 in 2006, breaking his string of chart toppers. In 2007, his first Def Jam greatest hits album, The Definition Of X: The Pick Of The Litter, went Top 30.
