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Desiree Lindstrom – DMX’s fiancée – is mourning the death of her soulmate, DMX, following his memorial services that took place over the weekend. During the public ceremony, X’s ex-wife Tashera Simmons shared a special moment with Desiree that had everyone’s eyes filled with tears. Also,
Kanye West has raised $1 million for X s 15 children.
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DMX’s loved ones are still coming to terms with his sudden death, which is totally understandable. The 50-year-old rapper died at White Plains Hospital in New York on April 9th, one week after suffering a heart attack which was reportedly brought on by a drug overdose.
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Last June, GraceLife Church of Edmonton emerged from the first wave of COVID-19 like thousands of other Albertans: hopeful, a bit wary, ready to adapt to the new normal.
“Hello GraceLife family!” church elders wrote in a June 19, 2020, bulletin. Like countless faith groups, GraceLife had moved to online services at the pandemic’s outset. But with the Alberta government easing restrictions, the church opted “after consideration, discussion, and prayer” to reopen in-person worship that Sunday.
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DMX wrote his own obituary more than two decades ago: “Slippin’,” a single from his second album, 1998’s
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, tells the story of a boy with afflictions who transformed himself into a rap star. The song starts with a psalm about suffering, then X shares his biography in three heartbreaking verses: His mom was abusive, his dad abandoned him, and he was forced into group homes and institutions. The people who should have loved him failed to protect him, so he found himself “possessed by the darker side,” bound to a cycle of drug dependence and insufficient rehab. Fame changed his life, but not in many of the ways that mattered.
DMX, who died this week aged 50, was born in 1970, the year of the dog, a detail so scripted that it must have been divinely ordained. In the Westchester County of the late â80s and early â90s, the crucible of pain born Earl Simmons was legendary for two things: rapping and robbing. It was said that his vicious pit bull, Boomer, struck more fear in victims than the threat of the gun. X once snarled that the police had an outstanding warrant out for both him and his favorite dog. If it was a joke, no one laughed.
The Cerberus from Yonkers described the acts of terror in his autobiography,