.

DMX Settles Legal Woes

Rapper pleads guilty to misdemeanor charge and settles Buffalo incident

July 27, 2001 12:00 AM ET

DMX settled with prosecutors in Alden, New York (near Buffalo), ending a series of legal woes that date back to March 2000.

The rapper (a.k.a. Earl Simmons) pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of reckless assault and paid a $1,000 fine on July 25th. The plea resulted in the dismissal of an assault charge filed in February and a contempt of court charge issued by an Erie Country grand jury on July 11th, stemming from DMX's failure to appear in a Cheektowaga, N.Y. courtroom to begin a prison term in early-February. DMX later turned himself in and served the thirteen-day sentence. He left the Erie County Correctional Facility on March 9th on crutches after an altercation with a prison guard, which brought about the assault charge.

The entire fiasco began on March 3, 2000 when DMX was pulled over following a Ruff Ryders performance in Buffalo and arrested for multiple traffic violations and marijuana possession.

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Music Main Next

blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Song Stories

“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The Joy Formidable | 2011

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

More Song Stories entries »