DMX (rapper)DMX in Cradle 2 the Grave with Gabrielle Union and Drag-OnDMX (Dark Man X, born Earl Simmons on December 18, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an African-American rapper/hip hop artist, who was most famous in the late-1990s. His dark, gothic subject matter, usually depicting a tortured soul torn between the sacred and the profane; and his gruff, pit bull-voiced rhymes were acclaimed by fans and critics alike. The only child of a single mother, Simmons grew up in the inner city of Yonkers, a suburb of New York City. He began pursuing a career in hip-hop in the early 1990s, a 1994 deal with Columbia Records fell through. In the late 1990s, he joined the Ruff Ryders Entertainment management company, who aranged a deal with Def Jam for Simmons, who went by the stage name of "DMX" (Dark Man X). DMX's debut single was "Get at Me Dog", an instant hit. His debut album was It's Dark and Hell Is Hot. It entered the charts at #1 in 1998, as did its follow-ups Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (also 1998), ...And Then There Was X (1999) and The Great Depression (2001). A number of hit singles kept DMX a presense on both urban and pop radio, including "Ruff Ryders Anthem" (1998), "Money, Cash, Hoes" (1998, with Jay-Z)", "Slippin'" (1999), "What's My Name" (1999), and "What These Bitches Want" (2000, featuring Sisqó). In September of 2003, DMX released his fifth album Grand Champ and became the only artist in the history of the Billboard 200 to reach No. 1 with his first five albums. His success paved the way for Ruff Ryders to establish a label of its own, signing Eve, Drag-On, Swizz Beats, and former Bad Boy Records artists The Lox to their Interscope Records-distributed imprint. DMX also branched out into acting, appearing in the motion pictures Romeo Must Die with Aaliyah and Jet Li, Exit Wounds with Steven Seagal, Cradle 2 the Grave with Jet Li and Gabrielle Union, and Never Die Alone with Michael Ealy. DMX also has a criminal history originating with an arrest in 1999 in Teaneck, New Jersey, when police found a pistol, crack pipes and 13 pit bulls on the premises of his home. He pleaded guilty to charges of animal cruelty, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia, and was sentenced to make public service announcements for the Humane Society. In June of 2004, DMX and a friend were arrested in the parking lot of Kennedy Airport in New York for allegedly attempting to steal a car and impersonating a federal agent. DMX was taken to central lockup in Queens and held on charges of attempted robbery, criminal impersonation and criminal mischief. Samples
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DMX was taken to central lockup in Queens and held on charges of attempted robbery, criminal impersonation and criminal mischief. From an interview of his interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:. In June of 2004, DMX and a friend were arrested in the parking lot of Kennedy Airport in New York for allegedly attempting to steal a car and impersonating a federal agent. Brian Eno is also responsible for the start-up sound to the Windows 95 operating system (which he created on his Apple Macintosh). He pleaded guilty to charges of animal cruelty, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia, and was sentenced to make public service announcements for the Humane Society. British 1990s band The Warm Jets were named after Eno's 1973 album. DMX also has a criminal history originating with an arrest in 1999 in Teaneck, New Jersey, when police found a pistol, crack pipes and 13 pit bulls on the premises of his home. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)). DMX also branched out into acting, appearing in the motion pictures Romeo Must Die with Aaliyah and Jet Li, Exit Wounds with Steven Seagal, Cradle 2 the Grave with Jet Li and Gabrielle Union, and Never Die Alone with Michael Ealy. His younger brother, Roger Eno is also a musician, who combines ambient styles with classical music instruments on some of his albums. His success paved the way for Ruff Ryders to establish a label of its own, signing Eve, Drag-On, Swizz Beats, and former Bad Boy Records artists The Lox to their Interscope Records-distributed imprint. He was also the provider of music for Robert Sheckley's In the Land of Clear Colours, a narrated story with music originally published by a small art gallery in Spain. 1 with his first five albums. Another was his collaboration with artist Russell Mills on the book More Dark Than Shark. In September of 2003, DMX released his fifth album Grand Champ and became the only artist in the history of the Billboard 200 to reach No. One is the set of "Oblique Strategies" cards that he produced in the mid-70s, which was described as "100 Worthwhile Dilemmas" and intended as guides to shaking up the mind in the process of producing artistic endeavors. A number of hit singles kept DMX a presense on both urban and pop radio, including "Ruff Ryders Anthem" (1998), "Money, Cash, Hoes" (1998, with Jay-Z)", "Slippin'" (1999), "What's My Name" (1999), and "What These Bitches Want" (2000, featuring Sisqó). Eno has also been active in other artistic genres, producing videos for gallery display and collaborating with visual artists in other endeavors. It entered the charts at #1 in 1998, as did its follow-ups Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (also 1998), ...And Then There Was X (1999) and The Great Depression (2001). In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer. His debut album was It's Dark and Hell Is Hot. At this time he was also active in the Fluxus movement and his work with the Portsmouth Sinfonia came out of this. DMX's debut single was "Get at Me Dog", an instant hit. Works released included early albums by John Adams, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars (the famous The Sinking of the Titanic), John Cage, and others. In the late 1990s, he joined the Ruff Ryders Entertainment management company, who aranged a deal with Def Jam for Simmons, who went by the stage name of "DMX" (Dark Man X). Only 10 albums were released. He began pursuing a career in hip-hop in the early 1990s, a 1994 deal with Columbia Records fell through. Eno started the Obscure label in Britain in the early 70s to release works by less-known composers. The only child of a single mother, Simmons grew up in the inner city of Yonkers, a suburb of New York City. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. His dark, gothic subject matter, usually depicting a tortured soul torn between the sacred and the profane; and his gruff, pit bull-voiced rhymes were acclaimed by fans and critics alike. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. DMX (Dark Man X, born Earl Simmons on December 18, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an African-American rapper/hip hop artist, who was most famous in the late-1990s. He has contributed to albums by artists as varied as Nico, Robert Calvert, Genesis, Edikanfo, and Zvuki Mu. 2003: Grand Champ. Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including Talking Heads, U2, Devo, and James. 2001: The Great Depression. These tapes were later used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Robert Fripp, and the methodology (not entirely original with Eno) was used by Fripp (on his Frippertronics albums) and others. 1999: ...And Then There Was X. Side 1 consisted of a tape loop system for generating music from relative sparse input. 1998: Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood. The second side consisted of several versions of Pachelbel's canon to which various algorithmic transformations have been applied, rendering it almost unrecognisable. 1998: It's Dark And Hell Is Hot. In 1975, Eno released Discreet Music. Download sample of "Dogs for Life" from 1998's Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, John Cale, former member of Velvet Underground, on his trilogy Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell, with the German duo Cluster, with composer Harold Budd and others. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans". Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which was one of the first albums not associated with hip hop to extensively feature sampling. His methods were recognized at the time (mid-70s) as being unique, so much so that on one album he contributed to (Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) he is credited with "Enossification.". His skill at using "The Studio as a Compositional Tool" (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer. Eno describes himself primarily as a "non-musician" and is indeed best known for "treating" instruments rather than playing them himself. He is widely cited as coining the term "ambient music" in his Ambient series (Music for Airports, The Plateaux of Mirror, Day of Radiance and On Land). He continued his career by producing a larger number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He also played with Phil Manzanera in the band 801. Between 1973 and 1978 he created four influential solo-albums that followed somewhat in the genre of Roxy Music, in their having recognisable tunes and lyrics -- Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World and Before and After Science. After graduating in 1969, he moved to London where eventually he started his professional musical career playing keyboards with the band Roxy Music from 1971 to '73. He was educated at Ipswich Art School, where he developed an interest in using tape recorders as musical instruments, but transferred to the Winchester School of Art, where he experimented with his first (sometimes improvisational) bands. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, usually shortened to Brian Eno, (born May 15, 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), is an electronic musician, producer, and music theorist. Brian Peter George St. 2004 The Equatorial Stars (with Robert Fripp). 2004 Curiosities Volume 1. 2003 January 07003 | Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now. 2003 Compact Forest Proposal. 2003 Music for Civic Recovery Centre. 2002 Kite Stories. 2002 I Dormienti. 2002 Lightness. 2001 Drawn From Life (with Peter Schwalm). 1997 The Drop. 1995 Spinner (with Jah Wobble). 1993 Neroli. 1992 Nerve Net. 1990 Wrong Way Up (with John Cale). 1990 The Shutov Assembly. 1989 Textures. 1985 Begegnungen II (with Roedelius and Dieter Moebius aka Cluster). 1985 Hybrid (with Daniel Lanois and Michael Brook). 1985 Thursday Afternoon (soundtrack to an art gallery video). 1984 The Pearl (with Harold Budd). 1984 Begegnungen (with Roedelius and Dieter Moebius aka Cluster). 1983 Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. 1982 Ambient #4 / On Land. 1981 My Life In The Bush of Ghosts (with David Byrne). 1980 Ambient #3 / Day of Radiance (by Laraaji with Eno producing). 1: Possible Musics (with Jon Hassell). 1980 Fourth World, Vol. 1980 Ambient #2 / The Plateaux of Mirror (with Harold Budd). 1978 After the Heat (with Roedelius and Dieter Moebius aka Cluster). 1978 Music for Films. 1978 Ambient #1 / Music for Airports. 1978 Before and After Science. 1977 Cluster & Eno (with Cluster). 1975 Discreet Music. 1975 Another Green World. 1975 Evening Star (with Robert Fripp). 1974 Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). 1973 Here Come The Warm Jets. 1973 Portsmouth Sinfonia Plays the Popular Classics (with the Portsmouth Sinfonia). 1973 No Pussyfooting (with Robert Fripp). |