DMX.
According to the City of Yonkers on Twitter, the mural was commissioned by the Yonkers Art coalition to restore an existing mural after local fans specifically asked for a DMX memorial. It was designed and completed by New York artist
Floyd
Ruff Ryders CEO
Darrin Dee Dean and X’s fiancée,
Desiree Lindstrom, were both in attendance at the mural’s unveiling near the Calcagno Homes housing complex on South Street, where X once lived. Lindstrom is also the mother of X’s five-year-old son,
Exodus.
“Extended blessings to the family of @DMX. Got Exodus and Dez with us,” Dean wrote on Instagram.
YV Magazine reported that TV One confirmed the two-part
Uncensored special centered around the Yonkers native at the Urban Honors press junket Wednesday afternoon.
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Part one is set to air on TV One Sunday, May 16th at 8:00 p.m. ET/PST ahead of the Urban One Honors, which is set to air immediately after hosted by Erica Campbell
and news anchor Roland Martin.
DMX was honored in a beautiful tribute at the Barclays Center. His close friends and family eulogized him including the whole Ruff Ryders crew, his
Belly co-star, Nas, and his ex-wife, Tashera Simmons who shared a heartwarming moment with his fiancé, Desiree.
DMX’s death,
Irv Gotti has issued an apology for claiming the rapper died from crack cocaine and fentanyl overdose.
“They said it was a bad dose of crack, and they said some drug fentanyl was mixed in with the crack and that’s what made him overdose,” Gotti said last week during an interview with Chicago’s 107.5 WGCI. “Then when he got to the hospital, he got diagnosed with COVID and he couldn’t breathe. You know that COVID messes with your respiratory system, so that’s why he had to get hooked up to the ventilator. But they said before he did, he was brain dead.”
DMX’s funeral offered numerous moments of praise, gospel and words to remember the Hip Hop legend. However, one particular friend of DMX’s became a headline for all the wrong reasons during the service.
The man, who identified himself as Jungle during the private funeral, crashed the stage and delivered an emotional tirade about X’s upcoming posthumous album.
The move didn’t sit well with Darrin Dee Dean of the Ruff Ryders or any longtime fan of X. On Friday (April 30), Dee shared a video to Instagram of Jungle meeting up with him and apologizing for his actions, first starting with a phone call to Reverend A.R. Bernard who personally checked Jungle at the service.