DMX's powerful work confronted an American hell of trauma and poverty

The rapper, who has died aged 50, parlayed his life’s difficulties into thrilling, combative, witheringly witty musicDMX obituaryDMX: A life in picturesListening to a DMX song from the late 1990s is like riding a wrecking ball through a gated community. The music video for Stop Being Greedy – one of many confrontational highlights from the rapper’s 1998 Def Jam debut, It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot – shows DMX hunting a wealthy white man across a mansion, before eventual