DMX walked out of Gilmer Federal Correctional Institution on Friday morning (January 25) as a free man. The Ruff Ryders vet served roughly one year behind bars after pleading guilty to tax evasion last January.
As part of his release conditions, he will be under supervision for three years and required to pay $2.3 million in restitution to the IRS.
X was originally expected to be released on January 27 but because that date fell on a Sunday, he was allowed to leave two days early.
[This article has been updated. The original version was published on January 24, 2019 and can be found below.]
DMX is being released from Gilmer Federal Correctional Institution on Friday (January 25), according to Vulture. X’s longtime attorney, Murray Richman, confirmed he’ll be out around 9 a.m. local time.
“He’s coming home tomorrow,” Richman said. “I spoke to him. He’s very happy. He’s looking forward to being home. He’s never been hotter than now — people have been seeking him out all over. He’s terrific. He’s been terrific.”
X was sentenced to one year in prison last March for tax fraud. After turning himself in July 2017, he posted $500,000 bail and was allowed to go home on house arrest. However, after delivering a dirty drug test, a judge took him off house arrest and ordered him to go to rehab as long as he was wearing an ankle monitor.
The “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” mastermind started serving his sentence last January.
Although X’s release date is still listed as Sunday (January 27), federal prisoners may be allowed to leave if their scheduled release date falls on a weekend.
Upon his release, X will be under supervised release for three years. He also must pay $2.3 million in restitution to the IRS.
Last November, Richman said his client was owning up to relying on other people to handle his taxes.
“He’s of the opinion that he’s guilty because he didn’t properly supervise his own life,” Richman said. “He gave the responsibility of paying his taxes to others but he knows it was his responsibility. He’s owning up to it at this particular point.”
The Ruff Ryders vet is reportedly already working on his next album and being scouted for his own biopic.
Just in time to enjoy smoking some SouljaRocks with SouljaBoy aka Big FakeO
Daaaaamn!! Get out here and leave the the alcohol and drugs alone dude!
Just for him to go right back in. DMX was the man in the early 2000s but the glass pipe got him hooked. I hope he stays out this time and takes of his 15 kids. DMX a legend in the game but he is the result of what happens when a record label (Def Jam/ Ruff Ryders) don’t give a damn about you. Also, I don’t think DMX is ready for the #MeToo movement era we are in. He might just be in the next R. Kelly-esque docuseries.
Hey Crack Pipe…..X gon give it to ya!!!!! Lol
I already see him bouncing back and forth off the walls in his cell waiting for tomorrow morning to come already thinking about crack talking bout “Y’all gon make me lose my mind,Up in here,Up in here”
He’s a legend. He’s already in the Rock Hall of Fame just with the Crack added right before the Rock part….lol. Sad to see him fall so hard time and time again. He was so talented
Yeah!! Whoopie!! Nobody gives a f#ck!
The Crack Dealer does lol
GOOD LUCK DMX KEEP YOUR HEAD UP . DON’T WORRY ABOUT ALL YOUR HATERS. LOOK TO SKIES N PRAYER TO OUR GOD. REMEMBER PUT GOD FIRST . I WISH YOU A HELLAVA COME BACK MY DUDE , PEACE LOVE DMX ,SHOW THE PEOPLE N SHUT THE MFERS DOWN . Xoxoxo
Yall all sound like some dickheads… Welcome home to the dog I’m rooting for u
You must be either a drug dealer or the I.R.S because they’re the only ones excited about him getting out lol
DMX is nicknamed the dog but he should’ve been nicknamed the cat cuz bruh got 9 lives… Lol! Don’t fuck this up X!!! You almost 50 homie.
Drugs Made Xtra
Hide ya sh*t, Hide ya pipes lol
Good, he’s out just in time to get a taste of this new pack we got out here. #pipeup
Man, DMX is one of the realest, rawest, and best to ever do it! It’s too bad his addictions led him down such a shitty path. I mean, his drug addictions are likely what made him into the great rapper he originally was… But doing more and more ruined the man’s body and minds. Bad decision after bad decision. It’s really too bad. I heard he has a new album coming out… And sure, I’ll listen to it. But it’ll likely sound tired, and annoying. His voice over the years got worse. His flow got shitty and slow. I love DMX. I hope he finds what he needs to stay sober… And I hope be doesn’t die of an OD like he almost did last year. Well, even if he isn’t very good anymore, I’m still excited for new DMX music. Could u imagine if DMX ended up shocking everyone, and dropping a classic? That’d be insane.
Hopefully this drug addicted negro learned his lesson.
Fuck off Dbag. Us Trump supporters aren’t racists. I love DMX and wish him well. One of the best to ever exist. So, suck a dick with your trolling BS.
Didn’t you get fired
My rapname in high school was Dee eM seX. If anyone wants to use it, feel free. I’m a crappy rapper so I’m never gonna get famous. I think I even did more blow than X, more lean than Future, and smoked more trees than Snoop but it didn’t work out.
I’ve found our first victim from smoking SouljaRocks people lol
I hope he makes more shitty movies with Jet Li and Steven Seagal!
Suck a juicy one
i dont know where he will get the money at now that the fame is over. hate to say it but dude is going to end up back in jail for not being able to pay fees/charges.
dude can easily get 5-10K for a show & 1-5K just to show up which with 100 kids probably doesn’t help but rich peoples broke is different than the normies, not to mention im sire he can get advance for a book or movie deal to pay off fine & of course yaayo & cash for most of his dealings
He’s still famous you dumb fuck
Imagine how much money his lawyer has made off him throughout the years….
the justice department has done this man wrong! hes only had 30 chances. the man planted crack on him and the man tryna keep the brother down again.
Ever since dmx came at drake he got shook when drake responded. Since then he went to jail to hide from drake cause he knows drake woulda caught a body. He is coming out now hoping drake forgot about his washed up bum ass.
Shut up pussy Drakes an rnb singer he couldn’t catch a body with a net.
Hope he can bounce back from this. He is a talented actor and one of the best hip hop artists of all time. Hopefully he can do some shows and look for a new role in tv or a movie.
Soon to be at the closes trap house, copping a 1/8 ball.
I hope he stays out this time.
3 years probation….another failed UA in a year…sit another year….get another 3 years added on….if he’s lucky he’ll be off probation by 2035. He’s better off just taking a couple years inside with no probation after he gets out.
Nah. He needs probation. He’d be dead without it by now. I hope he doesn’t OD…
For how long?
This guy’s a clown and a loser he was the top rapper at one point but can’t stay out of jail and can’t stay off the pipe. I say what yall scared to say
DMX needs to go straight to acting ! Movie Of The Weekend ( NEVER DIE ALONE ) – Ready to see DMX do something outside the box but stat Tru to his Roots still waiting for the follow up to Belly with DMX & Nas make it happen Hype Williams and Irv Gotti ! Song of the Night Nas ( Money )
Dog Man X is the truth! Dog Man X is my favorite singer in the entire world.
“Get At Me Dog” is R&B classic! Dog Man X and Monica’s back and forth verses about their Ex’s are gold!
Please check out mi dawgz
It’s Dark, and Hell is Hot is one of the most underrated hip hop albums ever, was listening to that shit
today. “Let me fly” is a classic.
He needs Swizz beats and get back on some NY street shit. A good energy anthem song to put him back on the radio.
What does he need Swizz Beatz for? Just get at Arab and start cooking.
What kind of question is that?? DMX and Swizz have a synergy and came up in the game together,why shouldnt X and Swizz link back up?
a dog is a dog
Article should be titled: “DMX is out of prison… for now”
He’ll be going back “home” soon enough.
Swizz needs to swoop up DMX as well as Cassidy and throw them foos in the studio ASAP