DMX Reveals He Was Charged With 13 Armed Robberies At Age 15
While appearing a new episode of N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN‘s ‘Drink Champs,’ DMX reveals he was charged with 13 armed robberies at the age of 15.
During the conversation, N.O.R.E. asks the rap legend, “So, has there ever been a time where the police came to you to give up other people?” DMX goes on to explain, “I’mma say the third time I got arrested. I was 14-years-old–I’d just turned 15 and I got charged with 13 armed robberies.”
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Immediately, both hosts question, “13?!,” leaving X to confirm, “13, yeah, yeah.” He continues to recall, “So we go to the police station and when you walk in the police station, [there’s] a map. They have a map of the city in a precinct and I see wild thumbtacks, but there’s none on my projects, and I wondered, ‘How the f**k did they know where we live at?’ … [They were like] ‘Do you want a donut?’ … ‘Do you want to tell us what happened?'” X says he remained hush, but they told his friend was “singing like The Temptations.” He says he began crying with “tears of anger” and began rebelling.
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