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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — DMX's attorney played the rapper's song "Slippin'" during his sentencing on Wednesday to help the musician express his struggles, but it was not enough to convince a judge to let the rapper ...

Federal judge Jed Rakoff took requests Wednesday, accommodating the rapper's desire to hear his hit "Slippin'" before he faced the music over his admission that he committed tax fraud. By The ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...