DMX Hospitalized After Reported Overdose and Cardiovascular Disease

< div data-testid="BylinesWrapper" class="sc-fubCfw sc-eltcbb jetItr bylines content-header __ bylines"> By Jordan Hoffma n April 3, 2021 < div class= "grid-- product body __ container article __ body grid-layout __ content "> The rapper and star DMX was hurried to a health center in White Plains, New York on Friday, after an overdose triggered a heart attack, according to TMZ. A source told the outlet that the entertainer was in a “vegetative state.”

Word of his condition spread on Saturday when Eric B. of the group Eric B. & & Rakim published an image of himself with the 50-year-old star, with the caption “Please pray for my brother DMX” followed by hashtags #dmx #ericb #dmxhospitalized.

DMX, born Earl Simmons, has actually discussed his issues with addiction in the past. On a recent podcast with Talib Kweli, he said that a coach fooled him into smoking cigarettes crack when he was just 14.” I later on learnt that he laced the blunt with crack. Why would you do that to a child?” he asked. In October 2019 he cancelled tour dates to examine himself into a drug rehab clinic.Over the years, DMX has actually been chosen for 3 Grammys and has actually won two American Music Awards. His very first 3 albums, released in 1998 and 1999, went 4x, 3x, and 5x Platinum. He has actually had legal concerns throughout the years, consisting of charges in 2008 of animal cruelty, and was discovered non-responsive in a Ramada Inn car park in Yonkers, New York City in 2016. He was working on a new album including the hip hop group Griselda Records, U2’s Bono, and the late Pop Smoke, a New York-based rapper who was killed in Los Angeles last summer season at the age of 20. Require prayer and healing vibes lit up social media as the news broke.