A judge heard a DMX rap song before sentencing the rapper to a year in jail for tax fraud. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff accommodated DMX’s desire to hear his hit Slippin’ before calling the rapper’s fraud a “brazen and blatant” crime that could not go unpunished. DMX (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister, File)Mr Richman said DMX has been a model prisoner. As Slippin’ played in the packed courtroom, DMX nodded his head slightly to the beat while some of his supporters nodded more enthusiastically. “I was in a cloud.”The judge said that in the court’s view DMX “is a good man”.

Source: Irish Examiner March 28, 2018 22:18 UTC