The Universal Hip Hop Museum, located in the Mott Haven neighbourhood, is scheduled to open in 2024 to celebrate hip hop. "If Tupac was the heart of hip-hop, DMX was the soul. DMX was that realness, that grittiness, he didn't create the grittiness of DMX to rap that's who he was,” Chief Curator Paradise Gray, who says X was also a talented poet and actor, tells Bronx News12.
DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, passed away on Friday (April 9) after suffering a heart attack a week earlier. He reportedly suffered an alleged drug overdose on April 2 and was described as being in grave condition at a White Plains, New York, hospital. His ex-wife Tashera Simmons honored her relationship with the rapper, her best friend, spiritual partner and mentor in an Instagram tribute on Saturday (April 10).