The rapper and actor, born Earl Simmons ... Jr. male entertainer of the year prize. In 2000, DMX won the American Music Award for favorite artist in the hip-hop rap category.

and was unbecoming of a hardcore rapper. “The flip-flops – he’s just not the same,” DMX once said in another interview with Vibe (via The St. Louis American). “It’s Beyoncé.

Gotti was influential in Def Jam’s signing of celebrated rapper DMX and served as the executive producer of his 1998 album, It's Dark and Hell Is Hot.