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Rapper DMX ‘taken off life support and breathing on his own’ after being hospitalised following heart attack
TMZ reported that the star – real name Earl Simmons – was in a ‘serious condition’ after suffering a drug overdose.Murray Richman, DMX’s attorney, told PIX11 News in New York: ‘He’s been in the hospital as a result of a heart attack.‘He has been taken off [the] life support system and is breathing on his own, but we are concerned. ‘It would be disingenuous of me to suggest that I’m not a worried man at this particular point.’Richman continued: ‘Earl Simmons, DMX, in my opinion, is one of the great poets of our time and what he had to say, if people bothered to listen, and if they could overcome their hostility to rap, they could learn a great deal.’Here’s what DMX’s attorney, Murray Richman, told PIX11 News Saturday afternoon.