DMX is going to prison despite playing hit song to a judge to illustrate how tough his life has been. The rapper, who has been in jail since January, managed to avoid the maximum prison term for a ...

An attorney for DMX used an unusual court tactic on Wednesday before his client got sentenced for tax evasion: He played the rapper's hit song, "Slippin'" — in the hopes of convincing the judge to be ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – DMX, one of the top hip hop artists of the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died at the age of 50. The news comes after DMX, real name Earl Simmons, was hospitalized earlier this ...

DMX has been sentenced for committing tax evasion to the tune of $1.7 million. Prosecutors had been pushing for the 47-year-old rapper, real name Earl Simmons, to be handed the maximum jail term of ...

"When I make it big I'm coming back. I promise," DMX's daughter Sonovah Hillman Jr. wrote on Instagram, after filling in for the late rapper at a gig he was set to perform in Texas Glenn Garner is a ...

Darrin "Dee" Dean, Eve, Swizz Beatz, and Joaquin "Waah" Dean speak during the Memorial Service Held For Rapper DMX. CREDIT: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images The artists joined friends and family of the late ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earl Simmons didn’t come out of the womb raging, growling and barking like a pitbull. That sound, the hard sound of DMX, was built ...

A judge heard a DMX rap song before adding his own lyrics to a court proceeding on Wednesday, ordering the rapper imprisoned for a year in a tax fraud case. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff took requests ...

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 ...