ROUGH ROOTS
DMX endured a traumatic childhood rife with family struggles drugs – years before he had a heart attack “triggered by an overdose.”
The hip-hop legend known as “Ruff Ryder” is currently in a battle for his life and in a “vegetative state” at White Plains Hospital in New York while friends, family, and fans anxiously wait for an update.
DMX was born on December 18, 1970, in Mount Vernon, NY, to artist Joe Barker and Arnett Simmons.
In 2019, he told GQ how his mom “beat two teeth out of my f**king mouth with a broom” when he was just six in a bombshell interview.
In his 2002 autobiography, “E.A.R.L.” the musician said his dad “never called me on my birthday or helped raise me at all” and only came around when he had to sell paintings in New York City.
“Children don’t come with a f**king instruction manual,” he wrote, noting later that his mom was “incapable” of looking after him. “Four sisters; I’m the only boy. Maybe she didn’t know what to do with me.”
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