X’s longtime producer Swizz Beatz shared the news on Instagram on Monday (May 10) that the rapper’s Exodus project would release on May 28th on Def Jam Recordings. It’s been 18 years since X released his first Def Jam album Grand Champ in 2003. The album Exodus will focus on themes of redemption and shares its name with one of his sons Exodus Simmons. Since the start of his career, DMX has sold more than 74 million records worldwide and has charted on the Billboard 200 and Top Hip Hop charts with several No.1 hits from his first five albums.