Jermaine Dupri speaks on DMX’s scary run-in with a reporter

Jermaine Dupri is an business identify and has labored with the most effective of the most effective. From the likes of Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey to Nate Dogg and Ludacris, the rapper, songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, and DJ has executed all of it.

As a file producer and singer, Dupri has spent a whole lot of time round rappers and, for his debut mission, recruited the likes of Nas, Jay-Z, Too $hort, Ma$e and even the late Yonkers icon DMX. Nevertheless, Dupri’s expertise with the ‘Ruff Ryders’ musician was intriguing, to say the least.

Throughout an Instagram video reflecting on his profession and experiences with music business stars, Dupri instructed followers that, in 1998, whereas on a visit to New York, he witnessed DMX rob a reporter for The Supply together with his canine.

Recalling the eye-opening occasion, Dupri instructed followers, “One night when I was working on my album, Life in 1472, I was heading to the studio for the DMX session. I was going to the studio in New York to hear DMX do his verse. We tried to make it a marketing thing by having an interviewer from, I think, The Source magazine come and be a fly on the wall at the session so that you could talk about me recording and how the process was and all of this.”

The Supply was probably the most outstanding hip-hop journal of the Nineties and early 2000s. As such, Dupri understandably needed to create a buzz round his debut album by inviting them to doc his studio classes. DMX (actual identify Earl Simmons) was featured on the monitor ‘Get Your Sh*t Right,’ alongside Madd Rapper. 

Within the 2023 video, the Atlanta singer proceeded to element how the altercation performed out, recounting, “So it goes like this… the session was whatever time it was. So the writer gets to the studio before DMX, and DMX shows up. At this time, DMX is walking around with his dogs, and he got both dogs. But by the time I got to the studio, the reporter had gotten robbed!”

He added, “DMX basically robbed the reporter with his dog. No guns, just the dog. DMX came in and started questioning the reporter and told the reporter to run his shit, take off whatever he had on.”

Simmons was known for his dogs and, as evidenced by the art work for his 2003 mission Grand Champ, was an enormous fan of pit bulls. Jadakiss has beforehand defined that DMX’s canine, Boomer, was notorious in Yonkers and clarified that individuals knew any individual was getting robbed at any time when Simmons walked out together with his canines.

@weeklyrapgods Jermaine Dupri talks concerning the evening DMX robbed the reporter from The Supply Journal coming to interview them 🫣 X was DIFFERENT #RIPDMX #hiphop50 #jermainedupri #sosodef #dmx #ruffryders #thesourcemagazine #hiphoplegend #hiphop #fyp ♬ That’s My Dog – Instrumental – DMX