The rapper DMX pleaded guilty Thursday to tax evasion, admitting that he concealed millions made from music royalties and television appearances.The 46-year-old Yonkers native arrived at his plea hearing in Lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon 20 minutes late. He has been living under house arrest in Westchester since the summer when a federal judge found that the rapper’s drug use and travel had violated bail terms. Prosecutors indicted DMX in July on 14 counts but the rapper pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff to a single count. It carries a statutory maximum of five years in prison and three years of supervised release.
Warning if you a black entertainer you better pay up or face the humiliation of prison or negative headlines.The IRS is bound to come for our Celebrities at a far greater percentage than white.The Internal Revenue Service has made it clear that wealthy African American entertainers and celebrities will receive greater tax scrutiny, and making examples of Black celebrities is practically a IRS pastime hobby: Black entertainers are low hanging fruit to be plucked off the vine whenever the racist system of tax collecting choose to make us an example. Statistics will clearly show Black celebrities are bought down by IRS at far greater numbers then white celebrities of equal status.
Here are a few major black figures who have been single out by IRS: Nas 6 million,Lauryn Hill 1.5 million, Lil Kim 1 million,MC Hammer 1 million,Lionel Richie 1.1 million,Chris Tucker 12 million,R. Kelly 6.2 million,Sinbad 8 million,Dionne Warwick 2.2 million,Mary J. Blige 1.5 million.
DMX like Lauryn where controversial political activist who wouldn't conform to the status quo so in my opinion was targeted for self-made destruction. Today there’s an entire new - New Millennial of music fans who only know DMX as this middle-aged troubled lawless figure who was once, apparently, a very big hip-hop star. It may seem unfathomable to people under 25 that there was a time when the three biggest rappers in the world were Jay Z, Eminem, and DMX. It is normal protocol for the entertainment industry to find flawed, talented musical genius build them into superstars and then bring them down. "We make you we brake you!"
DMX’s demons never seemed to subside because they resided inside of him from the beginning. Here is the hip-hop industry scenario: You find a flawed talented young black male reward him with money and fame, stand back watch him crash and burn. This is the reality show played out in the entertainment industry when it come to black artist every day. What we fail to understand is white media present the worst side of black men to validate the stereotype that we are inferior and violent specimens who should be sacrificed as public enemy number one. So the media like demonic vultures circle above just waiting for the next fallen angel to feast upon. What the white media failed to illustrate about X like so many young black artist is their capacity to be passionate and humane. Unfortunately artist who refuse to play co-conspirator to corporate hip-hop industry undoing of the black male image face annihilation.
In America, black men have historically been depicted as aggressive, impulsive, chemically addicted, deadbeat dads, hyper-sexual and violent – to be controlled, to be exploited, to be tamed through incarceration. The result, black men in America character are constantly at risk of being lynched by white media.
Yes, DMX is and probably always been a troubled man who became this famous artist who the white media decided fit the stereotype they typecast him into becoming a long time ago. Like the perfect neck jerking Black reality show X number would be pulled..... AS THE NEXT BLACK POSTER CHILD!
