A New York judge has heard a DMX rap song before adding his own lyrics to a court proceeding, ordering the rapper imprisoned for a year. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff (RAY'-kahf) took requests Wednesday, ...

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff granted DMX's request to hear his song "Slippin'" while his lawyer recalled his "nightmarish" childhood DMX has been ordered to serve a year in prison for tax fraud. During a ...

Earl Simmons, better known as “DMX,” or simply “X,” rapped his way out of a full five-year Federal prison sentence for tax evasion in a Manhattan Federal court Wednesday, instead receiving only a one ...

Against all odds, DMX’s recent plan to play his music at a sentencing hearing for tax evasion may have actually worked, kind of. After hearing a recording of the rapper’s 1998 cry for self-improvement ...

He inspired me and I’m glad to be here.” Despite recent pushback from DMX’s estate, which distanced itself from the event, Imhotep says that the ordination had already been in the works for six years ...

Rapper DMX managed to avoid the maximum jail term for a $1.7m (£1.2m) tax evasion offence after a judge was persuaded to listen to one of his hit tracks to illustrate how tough his life had been. The ...

New York rapper DMX, born Earl Simmons, died in the hospital yesterday (9 April), a week after suffering a heart attack and being placed on life support. He leaves behind an inimitable cultural legacy ...

DMX has been ordered to serve a year in prison for tax fraud. During a court proceeding on Wednesday, Federal Judge Jed Rakoff granted the 47-year-old rapper’s request to play his 1998 hit “Slippin'” ...