Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. DMX scored a surprising hit last month with a posthumous ...

*While three classic DMX hits have re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart, one of them has now become the late rapper’s highest charting Hot 100 single of his career. The gravely-voiced emcee, born ...

INGLEWOOD, CA - OCTOBER 04: DMX performs onstage during the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour at The Forum on October 4, 2016 in Inglewood, California. Decades after it was first released, DMX's It’s Dark ...

"DMX's story is bigger than the music - it's about survival, faith, pain and purpose," said 50.

DMX’s “Party Up (Up in Here)” became the biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit of his career at that point in 2000, but many didn’t know the blaring anthem was a response to Kurupt. “What was crazy was when I ...

The rapper was celebrated for his music, but spent much of his life struggling with addiction Born Earl Simmons on Dec. 18, 1970, DMX endured a rough childhood that included bouts of illness and time ...