led to his death at 50 on Friday at White Plains Hospital — to his run-ins with the law, he had fallen from the heights that had once made him one of hip-hop’s biggest stars.However the New York native — born Earl Simmons in Mount Vernon and raised in Yonkers — was as talented as he was troubled.
He made his name battling in street circles and had an infamous battle with Jay-Z back in 1993 before the two were famous. He went on to be one of the most successful commercial rappers of all time — for a good reason. “DMX delivered heartfelt, honest music, the vibration that filled the void after the loss of Tupac [Shakur],” Paradise Gray, chief curator at the Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM), told The Post.
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