Earl Simmons was born on March 4, 1970 in Maryland. After a few years, him moved with his mother to Yonkers, New York, where he would be raised. His father left him at a young age, leaving him forced to reside with an abusive mother. At 7, DMX was sent to a group home, where he would spend more than five years in several of them. Earl was a typical juvenille delinquent headed in the wrong direction from …showed first 75 words of 391 total…

…showed last 75 words of 391 total…of arrogance inside of him, remaining to be the same person he has been before all of the glitter had struck. With all this happening, DMX still remained a family man. He states that his wife and his children are what he lives for and that thinking of them wakes him up in the morning. DMX has been with his wife since the age of seventeen and together they have two children, Xavier and Tacoma.