NEW YORK — DMX's attorney played the rapper's song "Slippin'" during his sentencing on Wednesday to help the musician express his struggles, but it was not enough to convince a judge to let the rapper ...

A judge heard a DMX (whose real name is Earl Simmons) song on Wednesday, before ordering the rapper imprisoned for a year in a tax fraud case. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff took requests, ...

An attorney for DMX used an unusual court tactic on Wednesday before his client got sentenced for tax evasion: He played the rapper's hit song, "Slippin'" — in the hopes of convincing the judge to be ...

Rapper DMX managed to avoid the maximum jail term for a $1.7m (£1.2m) tax evasion offence after a judge was persuaded to listen to one of his hit tracks to illustrate how tough his life had been. The ...

DMX has been sentenced for committing tax evasion to the tune of $1.7 million. Prosecutors had been pushing for the 47-year-old rapper, real name Earl Simmons, to be handed the maximum jail term of ...