When he was 14, Simmons began living on the streets of Yonkers to escape his mother's abuse, sleeping in Salvation Army clothing bins and befriending stray dogs. A few months later, he was arrested for arson in an attempt to burn the school down. In what he described as a defining moment of betrayal, his mother tricked him by telling him they were just visiting the home, then she enrolled him there. At the end of the fifth grade, at age 10, Simmons was expelled from school and sent to the Julia Dyckman Andrus Children's Home for 18 months. One summer, his mother locked him in his bedroom, allowing him to only exit for trips to the bathroom. The same year, he was jailed for stealing cakes from a market. When he was seven, an aunt got him drunk on vodka. At school, he threw chairs at teachers and stabbed another child in the face with a pencil. When he was six years old, his mother knocked out two of his teeth with a broom after he innocently erased something in her notebook.
When Simmons was five years old, his family settled into the School Street Projects in Due to poverty, he slept on the floor with roaches and mice crawling over him in the night. Simmons went through a disjointed childhood that included being beaten by his mother and her various boyfriends so badly that he lost teeth and sustained numerous bruises and cuts on his face. Simmons claims he was told that his family could have been awarded a settlement of $10,000 and possibly even more for the injuries he sustained but that his mother rejected the settlement as she claimed that Jehovah's Witnesses are taught to be self-sufficient although the group's official doctrine at the time did not prohibit suing or receiving settlements. A month later, an insurance representative went to his house to try and reach an agreement to prevent his family from suing.
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He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness but became disillusioned with the faith after an incident where he was hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street. Īs a child, Simmons suffered greatly from bronchial asthma, being taken to the emergency room almost nightly due to him waking up unable to breathe. Barker moved to Philadelphia and was largely absent from his life. His father, Barker, was an artist who painted watercolor paintings of street scenes to sell at local fairs. Earl was Simmons' second child she had given birth to a daughter, Bonita, two years prior, and later gave birth to one daughter, Shayla, and two stillborn sons. He was the son of 19-year-old Arnett Simmons and 18-year-old Joe Barker.
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In 2006, he starred in the reality television series DMX: Soul of a Man, which was primarily aired on the BET cable television network. ĭMX was featured in films such as Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, and Last Hour. Overall, DMX sold over 74 million records worldwide. 1 five times in a row on the Billboard 200 charts. He was the first artist to debut an album at No. His 2003 singles " Where the Hood At?" and " X Gon' Give It to Ya" were also commercially successful. And Then There Was X, in 1999, which included the hit single " Party Up (Up in Here)".
He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies within its first week of release. Earl Simmons (Decem– April 9, 2021), known by his stage name DMX ("Dark Man X"), was an American rapper and actor.
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