DMX Mural Unveiled At Housing Complex
Iconic rapper DMX is being honored with a mural at Calcagno Houses in Yonkers, New York, which is where he once lived. The distinctive-voiced artist, born Earl Simmons, died on April 9 at just 50 years old.
The late rapper DMX is being honored in a new mural at Calcagno Homes, a public housing complex in Yonkers, New York where he once lived. Residents had asked for the specific tribute after the city announced it would be restoring an existing mural.
In 1998, he released the albums it’s Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood – which sold 10 million copies combined.
On April 3, he was hospitalized after suffering a suspected drug overdose and subsequent heart attack. DMX died six days later.
According to Vulture, who spoke with a source from the Westchester County medical examiner’s office X passed away from a cocaine-induced heart attack which ultimately cut off the blood flow to his brain.
His eighth album, Exodus, was posthumously released in May.