DMX Sentenced to One Year in Prison
DMX is heading back to prison for one year after pleading guilty to violating the terms of his probation.
DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested on Nov. 18 in Phoenix, Arizona, for using cocaine and consuming alcohol during a performance in an Arizona club and later failing to check in with his probation officer. He was also accused of driving on a suspended license.
The embattled rapper has already served two stints in prison this year. DMX most recently walked free in August after serving 18 days of a 90-day sentence in connection with a reckless driving conviction from 2002. He also served four months behind bars earlier in the year for a previous parole violation charge, before being released in July.
Upon receiving the guilty plea, Judge Christine Mulleneaux, who had previously rejected two requests by the rapper's lawyer to release him on bail prior to sentencing, ordered DMX to serve a year behind bars.
Judge Mulleneaux said, "Substance abuse issues are at the root of this problem ... Your criminal history goes back to 1988. It's going to continue if you don't take care of your mental health."
It certainly looks like DMX will be spending his birthday behind bars. The rapper turns 40 on Dec. 18.
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WHAT!!!!!!
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there's no place like home!!!! punk!
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there's no place like home, punk!!!!
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A NWO
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D-F-N
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Looks to me like this brainless fool cant learn. I suggest ten years with no parole. Even that wont work with an idiot , but at least we wont have to worry about hearing his cat wailing BS rap for awhile.
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that ole boy is prutty stuped for doin what he done.he aint nothin but stuped and he done stuped thangs and everthang
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now heres you're typical Rapper ......LOL
god I miss the 70s
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Why is that rappers get the book thrown at them and people like lindsay lohan gets to go to rehab......
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The real question you should asking is why can't this nigga stay out of trouble?
I think some of these people, that go back and forth to prison must think it makes them 'cool' to their 'fans.'
I just dont get it myself. Its as if some rappers try to get arrested. They know their on probation, and still live as if theres no problem at all.
I do believe some of these rappers get arrested on purpose.
I belive to them its all for publicty. I do believe they think its 'cool', when they are locked up. No sympathy here, they ask for it.
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Actually, you don't know DMX. He's been dealing with some inner demons for quite a long time. He's trying to handle it all by himself but he really needs to talk to a professional. Judge Mulleneaux said, ".... It's going to continue if you don't take care of your mental health." The judge couldn't be more correct.
Earl- all of us here in DC (you know who we are) are telling you as friends... stop being so proud and get some professional help. A real man knows when he is in over his head and has the courage to ask for help!
Interesting, since most guys like DMX see cocaine as "white people drugs." Of course, the distinction between "legal" and "illegal" is less important to him.
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NWA gonna be "tough guy" in the joint. Little nigga never gonna learn.
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DMX is not crazy. the industry is ran by faceless beings that people dont see. the media is so one sided and only gives you the bad. that man aint crazy... the environment he's in is sick.. dont believe EVERYTHING u hear..
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I just don't get it. you are blessed to make millions hold it wait a minute wait a minute, I get it now! You can take the person out of the pen ghetto whatever, but you can't take the ghetto or pen out of the person.
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(( every1 take a minute to think ))
what if EVERYTHING you saw on the news or heard on the radio wasnt true?
~ dont let that go thru 1 ear and out the other ~
actually think... what if... ?
* anybody on here believe that this country is NOT CORRUPTED?
* anybody on here believe that our govt is NOT CORRUPTED?
* anybody on here think that there ISNT unknown & unseen people controlling our radios & airways?
* anybody wonder why we keep hearing the same music over & over again on the radio & tv? why we dont hear the inspiring - influential songs like the old ones 2pac made, nas made, among others made, on the radio anymore? why we keep hearing club music, sex, money & other materialistic songs in the public?
people of great influence 4 the good, 4 what is the truth, 4 what is right, stand as a GREAT THREAT to those who stand for the opposite.
so why not take those people out & tarnish their image before doing so, to make you believe whatever they want you to believe!
an dont ever get the chance to hear & understand the message that your fallen artists may have been trying to tell their fans & the world.
they make you think its drugs, gang related, suicide, accident, etc.
PAC, BIG, MJ, PIMP C, AALIYAH, ELVIS, JFK, KING, ETC the list goes on...
and so will your thinking if you take a moment to look beyond what is shown to you!
dont be blind to what is happening to our own people!
(( THINK ABOUT IT ))................
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