Rapper DMX was found in the parking lot of a Ramada Inn in Yonkers, New York, passed out and not breathing. Two men approached him and began CPR. They were able to bring him around before the ambulance got there, saving his life. What a shock it must have been when he opened his eyes and saw two of the people he hates most in the world, policemen. Not only were they there but they just saved his life. The rapper, DMX is known for his cop hating lyrics, where he calls for their deaths.
Some of the lyrics of DMX’s songs detail the rapper’s apparent hatred of police. On “Crime Story” from the rapper’s 1998 album It’s Dark and Hell is Hot, DMX raps about coming across police officers who are looking for him.
“Run though the hallway, see police, face to face/And being I’m telling you this story, means I caught another case,” DMX raps, referring to catching another murder case. At the end of the song, the rapper enters a police precinct and blows himself up with C4 strapped to his chest.
A representative for DMX told TMZ that the rapper had not suffered a drug overdose, as many outlets had speculated, but that it was an asthma attack that had caused him to fall unconscious. A family member of the rapper told the outlet that he asked for his inhaler shortly before he collapsed.