During an interview on Sway In The Morning on Shade 45, Dee-1 details his first encounter with DMX backstage at a concert in New Orleans.

“He [DMX] kept coming up to me like, Have I met you before?, yo do i know you?” Dee-1 says. 

The Louisiana rapper says that even though he had never met DMX, he felt a connection with him.

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“It’s our spirits,” Dee-1 says. “We’ve spiritually been connected since i was a little boy. I know it.”

Earlier this year, Dee-1 explained why he turned down a contract with Cash Money

The emcee received support from Sallie Mae regarding his recent mixtape, Free Lunch And Sallie Mae.

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