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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...