But DMX’s reign went far beyond the charts: songs like “Get at Me Dog,” “Slippin’,” and “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” saw him delivering his lyrics with an inimitable intensity, ...

New York — A judge heard a DMX rap song before adding his own lyrics to a court proceeding on Wednesday, ordering the rapper imprisoned for a year in a tax fraud case. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ...

“Our New York State Senate has called December 18 Earl “DMX” Simmons Day,” Echi announced. “His lyrics were rapped on the Senate floor by Senator Jamal Bailey who introduced a resolution in his honor.

How the life and lyrics of the late rapper challenge our notions of sanctification and struggle. Earl “DMX” Simmons kept it real whether he was testifying about his angels or his demons. While ...

DMX burst onto the hip-hop scene in 1998 with an utterly unique debut album, ... the lyrics of “Slippin’” hit me like prophecy: “See, to live is to suffer. But to survive, ...

DMX wrote his own obituary more than two decades ago: “Slippin’,” a single from his second album, 1998’s Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, tells the story of a boy with afflictions who ...

Dark Man X’s oft-quoted lyrics from the somber and sobering 1998 hit single “Slippin'”, itself a re-quoting of Nietzsche, exist beyond his perception and into the broad understanding of Blackness in ...

Rapper DMX died on Friday at age 50 of cardiac arrest. The untimely death of the musician and actor hurts because he made many of us feel hope when that was difficult. And now he's gone.