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I’m not a hustler.” (He didn’t sell drugs.) “I’d rather do the stickup shit.” He was so good at fighting that he knocked people out quickly, and soon his rep preceded him to the point that he didn’t need to fight. When X got out of the system and returned to the streets, he became a thief.

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He was a comedian, he was the life of the party, he was a man in turmoil and trauma, but from his music to his movies to his ministry to his jokes, X knew how to make the people around him happy. “Then a teacher put her hands on me in breaking the fight up, she kinda threw me down… Charged her… I’m wildin’ now… Throwin’ desks aside… They cleared the kids out, called the principal and the gym teacher, and they wrestled me to the ground and sat on me for, like, 10 minutes.” 2 pencil and stabbed him right in his fuckin’ face.” The old rage of the moment rose up in him as he told the story. “Head butt a nigga, grab a nigga nuts and pull ’em out, I’d fuckin bite you… I was fighting from real anger-fuck you, you nice-dressin’ motherfucker.” One day, a fight went too far after a classmate said something he didn’t like. He recalled going to first grade filled with anger at kids who had fathers and didn’t wear hand-me-downs. “It was always dark in our house.” He described a family that didn’t have much, and a mother who was physically and emotionally abusive toward him.

“I didn’t have much of a childhood,” he said. When I interviewed him for the cover of Rolling Stone in 2000, he talked at length about the pain of his childhood, referring to himself as something of a rage-filled recluse. His government name was Earl Simmons and he grew up in Yonkers, New York, which was not a hip-hop hotbed.

He undoubtedly was, but this was a cover for the pain he carried from being mistreated throughout his youth by the adults in his life. In his movies, as on his records, he was a tough guy. He was in a supergroup with Jay-Z and Ja Rule called Murder Inc, and he was such a star that he was also a success in the movies-he made one with Nas called Belly and one co-starring Aaliyah called Romeo Must Die and one with Steven Seagal called Exit Wounds. He rhymed about the streets, his toughness, his pain, and Christianity, all over the beats of his friend Swizz Beats, who he helped make a central producer in hip-hop culture. He was sonic testosterone and a fixture in the boomboxes and the clubs with his distinctive growling voice that evoked the sound of a pitbull that could rap. He was a rap legend who became a dominant figure in the late ’90s after releasing both his debut and sophomore albums in 1998 and his third album in 1999. DMX rhymed from his soul in gritty growl that revealed both the toughness in his spirit and the pain in his life.