Swizz Beatz calls out fair-weather friends, fans at DMX memorial We got to learn how to celebrate each other while we re here, Beatz says in comments at Barclays Center
DMX.
As a large crowd gathered outside the Barclays Center during the memorial,
Swizz Beatz had some words for people who only showed up now after the rapper/actor’s passing.
“I just wish all these people showed up for him when he was here,” said Beatz, whose real name is
Kaseem Dean, when he took the stage to speak before DMX’s family, friends and fellow artists.
“This man needed everybody. He didn’t need everybody when he’s not here; he needed everybody when he was here,” he continued. “We got to learn how to celebrate each other while we’re here.”