Bloodline Records is a Hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 record label

Record label

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 founded by Earl "DMX" Simmons

DMX (rapper)

Earl Simmons , better known by his stage name DMX, is a multiplatinum American rapper and actor who rose to fame in the late 1990s. His stage name pays tribute to the Oberheim DMX drum machine, an instrument he used when he made his own rap beats in the 80's...

, also known as DMX. The label used to be distributed by Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused primarily on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Motown Music Group...

 but is currently searching for a distributor since DMX left Def Jam Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment

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's Sony BMG, Sony Urban Music

Sony Urban Music

Sony Urban Music was a division of Sony BMG, active from 2004 to 2006, The division handled R&B, soul, and hip hop releases by artists nominally signed to Sony's Columbia and Epic labels...

 and Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

.

Current roster

Artists:

• DMX
  DMX (rapper)
  Earl Simmons , better known by his stage name DMX, is a multiplatinum American rapper and actor who rose to fame in the late 1990s. His stage name pays tribute to the Oberheim DMX drum machine, an instrument he used when he made his own rap beats in the 80's...
  
  
• Jinx
• Janyce
• BZR Royale
• Brian McDonnell

Producers:

• Scott Ladell
• Dame Grease
• Divine Bars
• PK a.k.a. P. Killer Trackz
• Elite

Graphic Designers:

• Greg Nucifora
• King Kreations

Former artists

• Yung Berg
  Yung Berg
  Christian Ward , better known by his stage name Yung Berg, is an American rapper from Chicago. He is of African American and Puerto Rican descent. His first single was "Sexy Lady" which features R&B singer Junior. Yung Berg had been previously signed to DMX's Bloodline Records as Ice Berg. He is...
  
  
• Loose Cannon
• Kashmir
• Big Stan

Iceberg (now known as Yung Berg) left Bloodline in late 2001 at the request of his parents. Loose Cannon, who appeared on It's Dark & Hell Is Hot, got into a dispute with DMX when X re-used a verse he sold to Loose on "Where the Hood At?

Where the Hood At?

"Where the Hood At?" is the lead single of DMX's fifth studio album Grand Champ. The track is noted to be a diss record towards Ja Rule; particularly in the first verse...

". Loose then left the label in early 2004.

In 2006, Kashmir (now known simply as Kash) left the label to pursue a solo career. Big Stan also left Bloodline sometime in 2006/2007 to pursue his own company Live Young Die Rich Entertainment.