In 2010, he was sentenced to a year in prison for violating terms of his probation. He tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged when a SWAT team entered his home.ĭespite his success in the charts, the rapper struggled with legal battles and drug addiction, which first took hold aged 14. He was arrested in 2008 on drug and animal cruelty charges following an overnight raid on his house in Phoenix. It was this competition which propelled the scene on to greater heights, and helped propel the musicians onto multi-platinum selling artists.ĭespite his success in the world of music, the rapper struggled with legal battles and drug addiction, which first took hold aged 14 when he smoked marijuana laced with cocaine.ĭMX pleaded guilty in 2004 after he posed as an undercover federal agent and crashed his SUV through a security gate at New York’s Kennedy Airport. In 2000, he was named favourite rap/ hip-hop artist at the American Music Awards.ĭMX emerged on the music scene around the same time as Jay-Z, Ja Rule and other hip hop legends who went on to dominate the charts during the early 2000s.
In total, he released seven albums and earned three Grammy nominations. And Then There Was X,” “Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood,” “The Great Depression” and “Grand Champ.” He followed up his initial album success with another four chart-topping albums including “. DMX'S ex-wife, Tashera Simmons, left, and his fiance Desiree Lindstrom, second from left, pray outside of White Plains hospital.