Statement on the passing of DMX professionally known as Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 - April 9, 2021) from the SouthSide Jamaica Hip Hop Artists Museum

Statement on the passing of DMX professionally known as Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 - April 9, 2021) from the SouthSide Jamaica Hip Hop Artists Museum 


We loved those early days of Park Jams in our town of SouthSide Jamaica, Queens and could only imagine that the future would bring us an artist like DMX.


DMX was a unique artist and embodied the history of reciting rhymes that my peers and I lived for in the 1970s in my town of SouthSide Jamaica, Queens, New York City.  Though we are now enjoying or double-nickel (55-years-old) and being grandparents, we still love a good rhyme and DMX gave us the original hard beats and rhymes we grew up sharing with friends.


DMX may you forever rest in peace and sleep in paradise. You are definitely gone way to soon. You will live forever through your poetic words and rhymes.


We believe that you added art to the Hip Hop Movement and Culture that can never be duplicated.  All of those hot summer days of dragging and rolling DJing equipment to the local NYC project or park was not a waste of our time, for your enormous contribution is proof that we as children at the beginning of a historic movement made a difference as early DJs, MCs, BGirls, BBoys, FlyGirls and FlyGirls.


DMX your successes far outweighed your downfalls. We will forever be grateful for the unending lessons we learned in your rhymes and hope and pray that the world will join us in paying tribute to you in continuing to share your photographs, songs and videos.



Written entirely by:

Professor Eva Marie King, MS

on Sunday, April 11, 2021

in SouthSide Jamaica, Queens, New York City

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