Murder Inc. co-founder Irv Gotti sat down for a recent video interview with 107.5 WGCI in Chicago and spoke about the late DMX, who he’d signed to Def Jam Recordings in the 1990s. During the conversation, he also revealed DMX’s alleged cause of death.
Prior to the Ruff Ryders legend’s April 9 passing, TMZ reported he’d suffered a drug overdose, which then triggered the massive heart attack that ultimately killed him. While in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, DMX also allegedly tested positive for COVID-19, although that was later disputed. But according to Gotti, both reports are true.
“They said it was a bad dose of crack and they said some drug Fentanyl was mixed in with the crack and that’s what made him overdose,” he says around the 24:29-minute mark. “When when he got to the hospital, he got diagnosed with COVID and he couldn’t breathe — you know that COVID messes with your respiratory system — so that’s why he had to get hooked up to the ventilator. But they said before he did, they was, ‘His brain died.'”
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Earlier in the conversation, Gotti noted he was “at peace” knowing DMX was “with God now,” explaining the veteran rapper had long struggled with substance abuse issues and had a lot of “demons.” For Gotti, it made losing him slightly easier.
“Before they did [hook him up to the ventilator], they was like his brain died,” he continues. “They said even if he comes through, there’s a good chance he’s gonna be brain dead. Once they said that, I was like, ‘I don’t want to see X like that.’ I said, ‘If he comes back, I want him to come back and be X. If he’s gonna be brain dead and a vegetable, I don’t want to see him like that,’ you know what I’m saying? I think when it got down to it, he couldn’t survive without being on that machine. He’s gone.
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“But again, I have a feeling about it ’cause I know he’s with God. He was such a spiritually connected person that all the wrongdoings he may have done are gonna kind of be forgiven … I just feel like he’s up there, he’s a peace and he’s not fighting no demons no more and he’s in a better place. When I die, I’ll see my man again.”
DMX was 50 years old at the time of his death and left behind 15 children. His public memorial service is scheduled for Saturday (April 24) at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. While logistics of the event are still being finalized, the 19,000-capacity venue will have COVID-19 restrictions and protocols set in place.
Another private service will be held for DMX’s close friends and family at an undisclosed church in New York City the following day.
Fentanyl has been what’s killing a lot of celebrities lately. That’s why whether it’s weed,crack, heroin, or pills you gotta be careful and know what exactly going in your body. Make sure whoever you’re getting it from is legit and ain’t tainting the drugs just to match the quality or price cuz all you are is money to them that’s it.
Or how about just don’t do drugs? Mkkkay.
That’s like tell you not to have sex or drink….Ever heard of a thing called free will or Temptation? People are given the ability to choose their own fate. Are you going to rob them of that? Everyone is responsible for their own actions so and have to deal with the results of each of those consequences?
Technically you can’t decide fate. But I do agree with your point.
Yes, let us not practice any self-control. Let us not take any accountability of our actions either.
Only the weak minded give in to these temptations or lose control.
Right fuck all that shit no pills drink aspirin caffeine or nothing fuck a Corona vaccine just water for me
Irv talking crazy talk. Family say he was clean and the vaccine done keel him! Also notice how he tested positive AFTER he was ‘vaccinated’, not really working then is it now? Didn’t help Dmx from getting covid but did help kill him. Funny how it’s been “undisputed” (yeah sure, of course) that he tested positive, not a good look considering he was supposed to be ‘vaccinated’ too. What a great ‘vaccine’, doesn’t prevent you from.getting covid.. then again it’s a big hoax with the sham PCR tests that according to Kary Mullis, its inventor,.should not even be used to detect such shit. Enjoy your gene modification therapy thru a needle, gentiles. Brought to you by small hats. Look up the Tuskagee Syphillis Experiment while you at it too.
Why don’t you enlighten us on what the Tuskegee experiment smart dummy. This one should be good since I know some of the families in Alabama that this happened to. So spit the internet lie about what happened.
Small hats injected couple hundred african americans with syphillis without telling them. They wanted to study its effects.
That never happened. People already with syphilis were left untreated. Still bad, but no one was injected with anything intentionally. Again, some of these people’s children are still around in Alabama and will tell you what happened, and you can ask them instead of reading fake shit on the internet.
Oh ok that makes it alrite then
Your that small hat, you really.think you know it all…. but yet know nothing
You are on point ‼️
Irv never said that. I just watched the whole thing. Smh! The media is sickening!
Stop letting people manipulate you. If you don’t want to take the vaccine, don’t take it. The vaccine didn’t kill X. Even if he took it, how in the fuck with any of them know? Does anyone think X would have just been sitting around going like dog, I just got my shot the other day? FOH. Moreover, the people who have problems with it, it’s apparent pretty quickly, not a week after they take as the fake internet rumor goes.
What about the rumor he recently got the vaccine?
It’s not a rumor it’s a fact. He was poisoned with the so called vaccine.
Sorry, that was for the person at the bottom
You kind of wish that if he was going to be cursed with that problem that he would have just started purchasing his own keys and cooking up his own shit for personal use with how dangerous it’s getting out here for addicts and all of the shit getting mixed into their drugs. Fentanyl is no joke, and it’s getting mixed in a lot of street drugs. I hate he had to be hooked on that shit, but I’d still would rather have the Dawg here if that’s what he would have had to do to still be with us.
Cause of death : That Goddamn Glass Dick
I hate Fentanyl!!! Too many people I know have died overdoses in the past few years. Found a teenage girl overdosing in the street outside my house 2 weeks ago. Was on the phone with 911 for 22 minutes! Had to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation till the cops finally arrived with Narcan. Thankfully she survived. R.I.P. DMX and all the other victims of this horrible drug epidemic.
It was his time to go. Plain and simple. All of you are just assuming.
Honestly I didn’t need to hear this or read this. Thanks Irv … u just added to the list of assholes that tainted his name and legacy even more