LOS ANGELES – Reaction to the death of Grammy-nominated rapper DMX who died Friday at 50. — “Earl Simmons was a wonderful, caring father, and a sensitive, thoughtful man.
Unfortunately, Dark Man X took over and ran amok, tormented and struggling to find the light. ... DMX gave me the inspiration to keep going at Def Jam when rap became soft and silly,” Lyor Cohen, a former executive at Def Jam, said in a statement. — “DMX is a legend,” said hip-hop and electronic music producer Flying Lotust. “You can’t be a fan and not feel empathy for him in his journey,” Flying Lotus said on Wednesday while the rapper was hospitalized. “You think of ‘Belly’ and all the great stuff that he was part of.