Monday, April 26, 2010

DMX files NYC lawsuit claiming stolen royalties

NEW YORK —

Rapper DMX says he's been ripped off for years by the company hired to collect his strain royalties, though he's been behind bars so much which he only recently realized the problem.

The platinum-selling though troubled hip-hop artist - who's currently in an Arizona prison - said in the legal box filed Monday which Rich Kid Entertainment 1 as well as related companies paid him nothing whilst collecting royalties upon the little of his most popular work. The company also done deals letting record labels imitate his work without revelation him, the legal box claims.

No write series could be found for Englewood, N.J.-based Rich Kid. Its president didn't immediately respond to the fax sent to the probable series for him.

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, scored such hits as "Get At Me Dog" as well as "Party Up" in the 1990s. He also appeared in films together with 2000's "Romeo Must Die" as well as 2003's "Cradle 2 the Grave."

But the 39-year-old rapper has repeatedly been arrested as well as locked up during the final decade. He's currently serving the six-month tenure in the Phoenix prison for violating probation by failing the drug test, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

He was locked up there for scarcely three months final year upon animal cruelty, burglary as well as drug-possession charges. Some stemmed from an Aug 2007 raid in which authorities found three passed dogs, guns, ammunition as well as drug paraphernalia at his suburban home.

His other run-ins with the law include pleading guilty in 2008 to attempted cocaine as well as pot possession in Miami, being arrested as well as released in London in 2006 after police said he refused to put upon the seat leather belt as well as became abusive upon an airplane, as well as pleading guilty in the 2004 incident in which he posed as an undercover federal representative as well as crashed his sport-utility vehicle through the security gate at New York's John F. Kennedy Internatio! nal Airp ort.

"From 2000 through 2008, (DMX) was in as well as out of prison as well as altered representatives countless times. These were the little of the factors contributing to any delay" in bringing the case, the legal box notes.

It says Rich Kid has stolen from him for scarcely the decade, though he didn't know which until final year.



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