DMX was recently sentenced to 365 days in prison for tax evasion. Now, a judge has ordered the “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” rapper to pay $2.3 million in restitution to the IRS.
As reported by TMZ, the judge is allowing X — real name Earl Simmons — to pay the exorbitant amount in monthly installments. Two months after his release from prison, he will have to pay 10 percent of his gross monthly income every month until it’s paid off.
In addition, X must participate in an outpatient substance abuse program and outpatient mental health program once he’s out.
The 47-year-old New York native will reportedly serve out his time at Danbury Federal Correctional Facility. It’s the same low-security prison in Danbury, Connecticut that was the inspiration for the hit HBO show Orange Is The New Black.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, X is currently being held at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
(This article was last updated on March 28, 2018 and can be found below.)
A humble DMX was sentenced to one year in prison for tax evasion on Wednesday (March 28). According to TMZ, X told the judge he knew he was “too old” to be behaving the way he is and admitted he “hasn’t been acting right.”
During the hearing, which was held in a New York City courtroom, X’s attorney Murray Richman played the New York native’s video for “Slippin” to demonstrate his difficult path.
“I’ve been through mad different phases like mazes, to find my way,” he raps in the song. “And now I know that happy days are not far away/ If I’m strong enough I’ll live long enough to see my kids/ Doing something more constructive with their time than bids/ I know because I been there.”
But, as The Hollywood Reporter states, the judge called X’s fraud a “brazen and blatant” crime and he would be forced to face the consequences. In addition to the 12-month sentence, the judge ordered three years of supervised release.
It could have turned out much worse for X. He was originally facing 14 counts of felony tax evasion and up to 40 years in prison before he copped a plea deal last November. He agreed to plead guilty to one count in exchange for a lighter sentence.
Earlier this month, prosecutors were pushing for the maximum five-year sentence, claiming he’s been “on a one-man crime spree for the past 30 years.”
Substance abuse issues has plagued the 47-year-old Hip Hop vet for much of his career. As part of his bail conditions, he was required to go to drug rehab but got arrested again in January after failing a drug test.
(The latest update on this article was published on March 23, 2018 and can be found below.)
DMX could reportedly get five years in prison if federal prosecutors on his tax evasion case get their way. According to TMZ, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office wants the judge to “send a message” that “star power doesn’t entitle someone to a free pass.”
Prosecutors also reportedly said he’s been “on a one-man crime spree for the past 30 years.”
The veteran New York MC was facing up to 40 years in prison but he struck a deal by entering a guilty plea to just one count of tax evasion. He was originally charged with 14 counts.
The 47-year-old, who has wrestled with substance abuse issues for years, went to drug rehab as a part of his bail conditions but was arrested in January after failing a drug test.
X faces sentencing next week.
(The original version of this article was published on January 30, 2018 and can be found below.)
DMX was taken into custody at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday morning (January 30) for violating his probation, according to TMZ.
The East Coast rap vet, who has consistently struggled with substance abuse over the years, was arrested for failing a drug test. He reportedly tested positive for opiates, cocaine and oxycodone, and the judge deemed him a flight risk.
The “X’ Gon Give It To Ya” mastermind was out on bail for his tax evasion case and ordered to complete drug rehab as part of his bail conditions. After short stint at a New England facility, he was back out and had gained 40 lbs.
Footage of X in an airport bar that circulated last week raised a few eyebrows. In the clip, X is seen drinking and buying shots for people as he preached the word of God. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
X was arrested on 14 felony counts of tax evasion last July and posted $500,000 bail before pleading guilty last November. X’s attorney Murray Richman expressed his disappointment on this most recent arrest.
“I’m saddened and disappointed,” Richman told TMZ. “We’ll have to deal with it accordingly.”
Richman added he’d like to get X back into a rehab program before he’s sentenced in March. If convicted, he faces up to 44 years in prison.
What is this, Groundhog Day?
I usually say jail isn’t the answer but at this point what else has helped X? Maybe it’s his destiny to be an example for the youth. This man should be bigger or as big as Hov. Smh sad…
X will never learn he obviously is weak to his demons
All the stans would be here like “you’re the truth X”, ‘you’re the goat X”, “Top 5 dead or alive”… I don’t get why all these stans keep sucking him like that ! This dude keeps loosing since 2005 ! He can’t keep his shit together ! X is and has always been a joke with his gimmicks sparking and brawling like a fuckin dog. FOH !
Man let the man get high. He ain’t hurt nobody
He gets high and preaches the word. How detrimental to society is that?!
And Then There Was (analse)X
Man if you don’t face your demons, they’re gonna get you. Bottom line…sorry to hear this
ha. some of you commentin like you know real demons.
hopefully when hes doing his bid and getting clean he can write a bunch of music and when he gets out drop a fire comeback album.
If he gets sentanced to 44 years?
X form a church preach to the streets you now no longer have to pay taxes you can build you a mega church learn the loop holes like the EVIL folks that also do it, just don’t be evil
44 years for tax evasion is EVIL
Old man Earl still got his lips on that glass dick 24/7, what a sad washed up hasbeen.
Almost as washed up as you and the “glass dick” comments you leave about this man anytime hes posted on which leaves to wonder why are dicks always on your mind fruitcake and further more even though hes a washed up has been at least he actualy did something with his life unlike your broke dick fantasy having loose ass
Man X headed back to jail and fredo dead and january aint even over yet 2018 the year of the end for the real
What a joke, the guy is on bail for tax evasion so why should he have to drug tests. What’s that got to do with tax evasion? The system is a disgrace and sets people up to fail. I feel for him.
He’s on probation. He is subject to a standard 5 panel drug test which has NOTHING to do with his tax problems except for the fact that the article says DRUG REHAB was part of his bail conditions. The system isn’t failing DMX. DMX is failing DMX because he’s an addict and he needs help before he ends up dead.
So put him to jail for 44 years would be that kind of help you talk about ?
He’s beyond help. This crackhead would find a way to smuggle a glass dick and a crack rock with him and overdose in his cell.
Can you read? The JUDGE ORDERED REHAB AS PART OF HIS BAIL. Rehabilitation is the help he needs. Mandatory. Against his will. He needs to be kept in a facility for 90 days where he’s monitored and counseled around the clock. His body and mind are addicted. Stop blaming the fucking system, the judges, etc. etc. The tax evasion…that’s another story. If you make money legally you have to pay the government. Simple as that. Successful entertainers WITHOUT substance abuse problems manage to pay their taxes.
Martha Stewart served 5 months in federal prison for insider trading and stealing like 20 million from investors and X facing 44 years for a million or so in back taxes. Where is the justice? Plenty of stars have failed drug test and went in and out of rehab instead of prison so why should X be any different, o yeah I forgot , he’s a black man.
Martha Stewart, contrary to popular belief, did not go to jail for insider trading. She went to jail for lying to officials about it. Had she admitted that she knew insider trading was going on she would not have gone to jail. Her sentencing was conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators. Her activity, while immoral, was not illegal, as she received the information second-hand.
So she “conspired” to steal millions but just didn’t go through with it that’s like sayin u go in a bank sayin give me the money but u don’t take nothin u still goin to jail wtf Dmx avoided payin a mil Martha tried to steal millions
Martha “faced” 20 years.. Big difference between what you face & what you actually get. X isn’t getting 44 years even though the prosecutors statement about him being a “one man crime spree for 30 years”, isn’t that far off..
Wish x would get right. Realest dude in the game at ine point. No bs. He just let that addiction ttake hold and cant get it off now. Doesnt seem like he wants to either idk. Maybe he was always like this we just never saw the extremity of it when he was face first in the cameras. Idk. Still though. Long live darkman. Get ya head right big homue
This man’s a fuckin joke.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth have mercy on us… is he the only person with that problem for God’s sake? everytime Dmx going back to jail, everytime rehabilitation. oh my God! somebody should please give that man a hug. I’m not perfect, he is not perfect and everyone is not perfect pls
You rep men who kiss other men
Still rooting for X.
Drugs have ruined him…
Time to lock his black ass up for good yo
DMX has had TOO MANY chances. He’s a shell of the man he was. I feel sorry for his 2 dozen children who will suffer because of his irresponsibility. Fuck the music, imagine what he’s put his family through.
Crackhead. X Up!!
silly war on drugs to jail black people n minorities to fuel prion industry. New slavery, just a different form.
If everyone has that figured out by now, then how about just stop using drugs?? #CanItAllBeSoSimple
what a load of crap
Stupid motherfuckers try to make it about race. How many times has this dude been arrested and gotten another chance? My guess is more than 10. He is lucky to be alive at this point, get off the crack. Tax evasion is a serious federal crime, the only way they were able to lock up al Capone
10? That’s being modest, it’s probably up in the 20-30 range and I’m not even exaggerating. You ever read his biography ? Dude was arrested more times as a teenager than most people in a lifetime. Adulthood has changed nothing for him.
It’s called being institutionalized. What the Europeans thought of really works… I see it everyday. Young black boys 12 years old in cuffs. The European system starts the conditioning early enough to cause serious trauma. I stoped cops a few times asking them why they don’t do it when European boys do the same. What we experience from and early age and continue to fight through and transcend you would kill yaself! Once again please do not comment on things you don’t have the soul to compassion to innerstand
It’s obvious you’re white. And it’s also obvious you have no 1st hand knowledge of the constant racism in nearly every aspect of life that black people continually deal with. You’ve gone through life never having to experience it so I wouldn’t expect you to understand, and yet you speak on it as if you’re fully aware of what our plight is but try to discredit and downplay us as if racism is some figment of black people imagination. Because it frustrates you and angers you to find some sort of explanation for it, you’d much rather fan the flames by denying, provoking and criticizing… anything in an attempt to remove yourselves as the cause because you refuse to accept our experience and take time to try to understand how and why we’re at the points we are with racism. And because of this, nothing will change. Whatever DMX did is not for you to judge. He is a product of an environment that racism created, not him, and a system that continually stereotypes and vilanize black people on a whole. So my real question to you is why in the hell would you comment on things you clearly don’t understand?!
smoking crack and constantly breaking the law is a personal choice not racism. At this point he is probably better off in jail it might save his life
“…the U.S. District Attorney’s Office wants the judge to “send a message” that “star power doesn’t entitle someone to a free pass.” – Oh really? Then why is Trump getting away with his criminal bullshit?! That’s what should be told to him instead.
honestly you need to kill yourself. wtf are you rambling about?
Dmx is a deadbeat dad that doesn’t take care of his kids
Don’t forget also a crackhead and a black thug. A true definition of a piece of shit.
You sound racist and spiteful. I know lots of white crackheads and wannabe white thugs. Speaking of… aren’t you recovering?
He’s mad because his mother sister and wife can’t stop stop take king blackman cock in there mouths
This is great news
DMX suffers more black man struggle shit we see all over the world. He can’t be as black as he wants. So attack him systematic….aint no place for a blackman. I’ve travelled the world. Chinese hate us. The queens people hate us. Home in South Africa with no land get harrased daily for being black n successful. Wait til they put me on a weed charge f_u_c_k my whole life up take all this shine off me. It’s decades of planned racism…And yall laugh…. that’s how good it’s been put together.
C’mon son? I’m a black man and living just fine in America. Being black doesn’t mean you can do against the laws and rules. If you are gonna go against the laws and rules, at least be discreet. DMX is always on video doing dumb shit. be Discreet bro if you wanna live your life how you wanna live it
Dude it’s them not the blackman
(((them)))
“on a one-man crime spree for the past 30 year” da fuck? only person he hurt was himself. This is wild. the god is my prayers..damn it man
I fuck with x and wish him the best and you can go ahead and call me a dick loving sperm snorting whiteboy but tax evasion and driving without a license hurt more people than just yourself
i only wish the best for DMX.. im glad he didnt get 30-40 years..
One year is certainly better than five. The perks of being a celebrity.
For some odd reason, I sympathize with DMX more than I sympathize with Meek Mill. Peace.
He should have won a Grammy for that song. Amazing song and a hip hop legend. If this brings back a sober focused x then it needs to happen.
Maybe he can’t be helped. Sometimes you just got to let it be. Destiny
“I see life through many shades of grays and blacks
I could take that an hit ’em with the blazin’ tracks
When I make that, you fake cats have violent dreams.
Takes another dog to be able to hear my silent screams.” – DMX-
Dmx has made so many good tracks. That bought back so many memories for me. For all the people in the struggle keep your head up and keep going. Dmx i will support your music for life. What new rapper has had 2 dope albums back to back?
K.Dot Section 8, gkmc,, lupe Food and liquor, the cool. Ghostface iron man, supreme clientele, Kanye (pick any sequence), wutang enter the 36, Wu forever, PAC me against the world, all eyez on me, Biggie ready to die, life after death…just a few I can think of…
I noticed you only mentioned 2 “new” rappers both have been around for a long time. As I said name some new rappers who done that I can name nuff 90’s classics 2, Nas etc I would even say games first 2 albums were good. I mean I like Reks, Freddie Gibbs ,terminology from the last 10 years
DMX was looking at 40 years. He played one of his hardest music videos for the courtroom. Judge was like this a real Neega. And gave him 1 year. He’ll be out in 6 months for good behavior. X been doing time his whole life since a kid in juvenile hall and group homes. He had a hard life 6 months ain’t shit but a vacation for X. He’ll get sober and clean in jail. Good Luck X!!
Damn shorty. How he gonna pay for the crack rocks and glass dicks now?
I feel bad for him honestly his whole life was so fucked up, couple mistakes and life takes a wrong turn fast. Dark Man X still a legend in my eyes, one of the best to ever do it hope he gets through this and possibly drops another album.
” hit HBO show Orange Is The New Black. ” I guess Kyle Eustice Doesn’t have Netflix……LOL!
X will benefit from the mandatory substance abuse and mental health programs. Hopefully he’ll get back to the music when he’s released.
fuck the system the courts and gov
now DMX has to do 2 months in the jails
get out go on tour for the next 2 to 3 years of his life to pay off taxes
and be surrounded by drugs & booze as a 47 year old functioning drug addict smh
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