DMX

Ask anybody who has asked a person of the opposite sex for a date... First impressions are important. In life, a limp first impression can permanently ruin your chances for success, hurt your career or inadvertently create enemies for life. It happe...

DMX’s demons are real. It was evident when he stepped on the scene with his multi-platinum heart-pouring debut It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and 15 years later it still seems to be an uphill battle for the Yonkers MC. Earl recently appeared on Dr. Phil...

It's no secret that the last few years have been quite troubling for DMX, but his days of adversity must not outshine the cardinal reason that called X to fame, his music. Reflecting over the years of the rap star's career, XXL crafted up a gallery of the good, the bad, and the ugly...

DMX may be making headlines for anything other than his music, but this should turns things around. Today, Darkman X drops “Don’t Call Me” featuring Rakim. While the God MC fires off his exceptional lyricism, X comes in with some reflective lines about his life so far. On the hook is s...

After the events of his three-day long Twitter rant two weeks ago, many people had wondered about the state of Gucci Mane's mental health in the wake of his perceived meltdown. Fans, journalists and his peers wondered what was wrong with Gucci and pondered if the man needed serious help in the wake of his profane rant...

After reports of dire finances and explicit videos, DMX finally steps up to deliver his side of the story. Calling on the assistance of Dr. Phil, the trouble rap star opens up about his immense debt,the  relationship status with his kids, and the recent streaking incident. In ef...

After the sheer amount of craziness that occurred last week, it was likely that world of hip-hop was going to significantly calm down this week. While there were no shootings, no meltdowns on Twitter or world famous DJs admitting their sexual dalliances, a few things happened this week that made the news...

DMX can't catch a break anymore. Days after going on the Dr. Phil Show—the episode of which has yet to air—to try and spin some headlines his way, new documents filed in his bankruptcy case that erupted at the end of July show his finances to be in more dire shape than imagined. Accordi...

It seems that once a rapper reaches a certain eminence, the law always catches up to them. From DMX to Lil Kim and even further down in the history of hip-hop, rappers have always found it tough to escape the vengeance of authorities. Whether it be for tax evasion, gun charges, or even an unfortunate drug circumstance; too many rappers have had too many encounters with the law...

When you reflect on hip-hop, journeying from the past up until the present, one realizes that there are some rappers who have been in the game quite a long time. Contributors like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, and many more have molded hip-hop over the years crafting the genre into what it is today...

With the advancement of technology, the use of vinyl records, even by the DJ, has seen a sharp decline. Universal Music is taking it back to the essence, recently announcing they will be re-mastering and re-releasing some of hip-hop's most coveted LPs, in vinyl form, as a part of their Respect The Classics campaign...

Rappers have a strange track record of taking their clothes off. And we're not talking ripping your shirt off in the moment during a concert. Over the years, rappers have found themselves appearing in sex tapes, nude spreads and sexting incidents gone wrong...