If Yung Joc’s Twitter is to be believed, he’s had quite the day: An argument over the last line of coke at his St. Louis abode turned into him getting bitten by Katt Williams’ dog, the result of the pooch splitting said bounty with his owner and the chronically troubled MC DMX. A screenshot of the blow-by-blow (no pun intended) after the jump: More »
DMX is a free man after having spent 90 days in Maricopa County Jail on charges related to drugs, animal cruelty, and fraud. And his post-incarceration plans involve finding God and starting a ministry and not being on Celebrity Rehab (at least not yet).[AllHipHop] More »
In today’s headline wrapup: DMX isn’t in Celebrity Rehab (yet), Alan McGee is still pissy about ever even liking My Bloody Valentine, Aerosmith play for free in Hawaii, and we are all lazy because of the Internet. More »
At some point in the last year, my home state decided we just don’t care for the hip hop music. (Perhaps the tensions started simmering when Public Enemy put out “By The Time I Get To Arizona”?) First, a bouncer at a Tempe club hit one of the guys from Kidz In The Hall in the eye, then the DMX witch hunt (can’t a man keep drugs and pit bulls at his house?) and his dreadful prison stay. But last night, one man decided to take matters into his own hands.
DMX, who’s currently in the midst of a 90-day stay at an Arizona prison after pleading out on theft, animal cruelty, and drug possession charges, is now facing aggravated assault charges after allegedly throwing a tray of food at a corrections officer who reprimanded him for taking food that wasn’t his. DMX (real name Earl Simmons) was already in hot water at the jail for not reporting for a work assignment and not responding to a call for medications earlier this month; he’d been placed in lockdown and on a Nutraloaf-and-water diet for violating those rules. The Republic has helpfully provided a timeline of X’s legal troubles since August 2007, when his house was raided by police, who found malnourished dogs, drugs, and weapons:
