Rapper DMX Sentenced To A Year In Prison For Tax Evasion

Rapper DMX has been sentenced to do a year in prison with three years out-of-custody supervision for tax fraud.
On Wednesday, the rapper knew his fate before Judge Jed Rakoff at the Federal Court in New York, who described his offence as "brazen and blatant".
The 47-yeard-old rapper admitted to his offence as he told Rakoff that he "was in a cloud" at the time and knowingly was not "following the rules" at the time.
The New York native's prosecutor wanted him to get five years behind bars, but his lawyer Murray Richman pleaded that the judge be soft on the rapper because he had a tough childhood.

DMX AT the Federal high court in New York

Murray was granted a permission by Rakoff to play his song when he asked to do so to support his plea.
"Ay  yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin',  I gots to get up/Get me back on my feet so I can year s*** up," DMX wrote in the lyrics.
The song played on the ground that Murray plead that he be freed to go and look after is 15 children and repay $2 million he owed in tax, but Rakoff deemed it better he gets sent to prison.