PolitiFact s ruling: False
Here s why: DMX, the raspy-voiced rapper behind several hip-hop anthems such as X Gon Give It to Ya and Party Up (Up In Here), died April 9 at a hospital in New York, where he had been on life support after suffering a heart attack days earlier. The rapper, born Earl Simmons, was 50.
The hospital where DMX died said in a statement that he died peacefully with family present after suffering a catastrophic cardiac arrest.
It is not clear what preceded the rapper’s heart attack. But in the days surrounding DMX’s death, social media users circulated posts suggesting that the rapper died days after getting vaccinated against COVID-19. The implication: the vaccine made his heart fail.
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