Inside DMX’s traumatic childhood: Legendary Ruff Ryder has endured and survived a lot nypost.com

DMX performs during the Ruff Ryders and Friends Reunion Tour Past, Present and Future at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on April 21, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/FilmMagic)

It’s been a tough year so far for the legendary rapper DMX who’s currently on life support and in a “vegetative state” at White Plains Hospital after suffering a heart attack on Friday due to drug overdose.

“[My mother] beat two teeth out of my f – – king mouth with a broom,” he told GQ in 2019 of the abuse he reportedly endured at the hands of his mother when DMX was only 6 years old, according to The Post.

And in his early teens, his then-mentor allegedly tricked him into smoking marijuana laced with crack cocaine.

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Before his booming baritone and wizardly wordplay on tracks such as “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem” and “Party Up (Lose My Mind)” earned him multiplatinum-selling artist status, he was just a troubled kid from Yonkers named Earl Simmons.

“Earl is a person who still holds onto a lot of things he suffered in the past, as a child,” his former manager, Nakia Walker, told Houston Press in 2011.

“He holds onto things, instead of talking about things and releasing. He expresses himself through his music.”

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#disabledblackhistory There is an inextricable link between drug addiction and child abuse. Two-thirds of people in treatment for drug abuse grew up in an abusive household.

DMX is a survivor of child abuse, which undoubtedly influenced his music as an artist. pic.twitter.com/3jtnl1J1FC

— Ola Ojewumi (@Olas_Truth) February 8, 2020