fighting for his life at White Plains Hospital after suffering a drug-induced heart attack, had a tough row to hoe growing up. “[My mother] beat two teeth out of my f – – king mouth with a broom,” he told GQ in 2019 of the abuse he reportedly endured at the hands of his mother when DMX was only 6 years old.
And in his early teens, his then-mentor allegedly tricked him into smoking marijuana laced with crack cocaine. Before his booming baritone and wizardly wordplay on tracks such as “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem” and “Party Up (Lose My Mind)” earned him multiplatinum-selling artist status, he was just a troubled kid from Yonkers named Earl Simmons. “Earl is a person who still holds onto a lot of things he suffered in the past, as a child,” his.
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