VH1-Behind the Music-DMX
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02.25.2010
VH1-Behind the Music-DMX
02.25.2010
Admission: $10.00
Description:
Cream Stereo Lounge is hosting a scene from the new episode on one of the biggest series in music biographies. VH1 is going BEHIND THE MUSIC again in 2010. BEHIND THE MUSIC emerged from the cable television jungle of the 1990s to become the most celebrated music documentary series in TV history. BTM blew up the small screen with true tales of drugs and debauchery, breakups and makeups. The show's addictive portraits of the flipside of pop music stardom became as legendary as many of the bands themselves. And now the oft-imitated, never-duplicated show, which has been chronicling the unexpected twists and turns of the pop life since 1997, returns from a brief hiatus with a twist of its own. The 2010 season of BEHIND THE MUSIC concentrates on artists in their prime, at the top of their game. Expanding on the storytelling legacy that has earned the series five Emmy nominations, each episode will include verite footage of the artists at work today, connecting the past with the present, the music with the life. BEHIND THE MUSIC tells artists' stories through in-depth, intimate interviews with the artists and their families, friends and colleagues, along with rare and never-before-seen video and film footage -- and of course the iconic narration of Jim Forbes, who will continue to tell it like it is in 2010. Name at birth: Earl Simmons DMX (Dark Man X) is a hard core rapper from the East Coast school, known for his aggressively brutal raps. DMX's 1998 single "Get At Me Dog" was a top-40 hit that pushed him into the upper tier of popular rappers and revived the strength of the Def Jam record label. The same year his debut album It's Dark, and Hell is Hot went to #1 on the Billboard charts. He followed that album with Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1999) and ...And Then There Was X (2000), both of which debuted at the no. 1 spot on the charts. He also recorded with the Ruff Ryders, a loose conglomeration of hip-hop all-stars. DMX then veered into acting and appeared in Romeo Must Die (2000, with Jet Li), Exit Wounds (2001, with Steven Seagal) and Never Die Alone (2004, with Michael Ealy). His run-ins with the law kept him in the public eye, but in 2003 he retired from recording. In 2006 DMX (sometimes called "Dog") was in the spotlight again, with a new album (Year of the Dog, Again, on the SonyBMG label) and a reality series on the BET cable network, DMX: Soul of a Man. DMX took his name from the DMX digital sound machine... In spring of 2001 DMX served 10 days in a New York jail for driving without a license. In 2005 he was sentenced to 70 days in jail for violating conditions of a plea agreement from a 2004 incident at Kennedy Airport... He was arrested twice in one week in May 2008, both in Phoenix: first for speeding, and then on an indictment for felony drug possession and misdemeanor acts of animal cruelty, reportedly involving mistreatment of pit bulls.
02.25.2010
Admission: $10.00
Description:
Cream Stereo Lounge is hosting a scene from the new episode on one of the biggest series in music biographies. VH1 is going BEHIND THE MUSIC again in 2010. BEHIND THE MUSIC emerged from the cable television jungle of the 1990s to become the most celebrated music documentary series in TV history. BTM blew up the small screen with true tales of drugs and debauchery, breakups and makeups. The show's addictive portraits of the flipside of pop music stardom became as legendary as many of the bands themselves. And now the oft-imitated, never-duplicated show, which has been chronicling the unexpected twists and turns of the pop life since 1997, returns from a brief hiatus with a twist of its own. The 2010 season of BEHIND THE MUSIC concentrates on artists in their prime, at the top of their game. Expanding on the storytelling legacy that has earned the series five Emmy nominations, each episode will include verite footage of the artists at work today, connecting the past with the present, the music with the life. BEHIND THE MUSIC tells artists' stories through in-depth, intimate interviews with the artists and their families, friends and colleagues, along with rare and never-before-seen video and film footage -- and of course the iconic narration of Jim Forbes, who will continue to tell it like it is in 2010. Name at birth: Earl Simmons DMX (Dark Man X) is a hard core rapper from the East Coast school, known for his aggressively brutal raps. DMX's 1998 single "Get At Me Dog" was a top-40 hit that pushed him into the upper tier of popular rappers and revived the strength of the Def Jam record label. The same year his debut album It's Dark, and Hell is Hot went to #1 on the Billboard charts. He followed that album with Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1999) and ...And Then There Was X (2000), both of which debuted at the no. 1 spot on the charts. He also recorded with the Ruff Ryders, a loose conglomeration of hip-hop all-stars. DMX then veered into acting and appeared in Romeo Must Die (2000, with Jet Li), Exit Wounds (2001, with Steven Seagal) and Never Die Alone (2004, with Michael Ealy). His run-ins with the law kept him in the public eye, but in 2003 he retired from recording. In 2006 DMX (sometimes called "Dog") was in the spotlight again, with a new album (Year of the Dog, Again, on the SonyBMG label) and a reality series on the BET cable network, DMX: Soul of a Man. DMX took his name from the DMX digital sound machine... In spring of 2001 DMX served 10 days in a New York jail for driving without a license. In 2005 he was sentenced to 70 days in jail for violating conditions of a plea agreement from a 2004 incident at Kennedy Airport... He was arrested twice in one week in May 2008, both in Phoenix: first for speeding, and then on an indictment for felony drug possession and misdemeanor acts of animal cruelty, reportedly involving mistreatment of pit bulls.
