DMX’s family hold vigil outside hospital, as rapper in critical condition
By AFP
06 April 2021 |
2:51 pm
Family and fans of rapper DMX gather for a prayer and tribute outside White Plains Hospital where the 50-year-old New Yorker has been on life support since a heart attack last Friday. "There's no artist better than X, that got a heart like that you know," says a friend of the rapper.
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