Editing DMX (section)

=== 2017–2019: Tax fraud conviction ===
In July 2017, DMX was charged with 14 federal counts of tax fraud.<ref>{{Cite magazine | first=Daniel | last=Kreps | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dmx-pleads-guilty-to-17-million-tax-fraud-w513020 | title=DMX Pleads Guilty to $1.7 Million Tax Fraud | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] | date=December 1, 2017 | access-date=March 29, 2018 | archive-date=March 29, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329121800/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dmx-pleads-guilty-to-17-million-tax-fraud-w513020 }}</ref> Federal prosecutors charged him with failing to file [[income tax returns]] from 2010 to 2015 (a period when he earned at least $2.3&nbsp;million). DMX pleaded guilty to a single count of tax fraud in November 2017.<ref name="Moynihan">{{cite news | first=Colin | last=Moynihan | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/arts/judge-gives-dmx-a-year-in-prison-and-a-chance-to-be-heard-musically.html | title=Judge Gives DMX a Year in Prison and a Chance to Be Heard, Musically | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=March 28, 2018 | url-access=subscription | access-date=March 29, 2018 | archive-date=March 29, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329030122/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/arts/judge-gives-dmx-a-year-in-prison-and-a-chance-to-be-heard-musically.html | url-status=live }}</ref> DMX was originally free pending sentencing but was remanded to jail in January 2018 after leaving a drug treatment program ordered by the court and relapsing with cocaine and oxycodone.<ref>{{cite news | first=Stephen Rex | last=Brown | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dmx-custody-leaving-mandatory-drug-program-article-1.3788058 | title=DMX taken into custody for ditching court-ordered drug treatment program, relapsing with cocaine | work=[[New York Daily News]] | date=January 30, 2018 | access-date=April 10, 2021 | archive-date=April 10, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410064015/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dmx-custody-leaving-mandatory-drug-program-article-1.3788058 | url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2018, Judge [[Jed S. Rakoff]] sentenced DMX to one year in prison followed by three years of supervised release. The court also ordered DMX to pay $2.29&nbsp;million in restitution to the government.<ref name="Moynihan"/> He was released from prison on January 25, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thesource.com/2019/09/19/dmx-def-jam/|title=DMX INKS NEW DEF JAM DEAL|date=September 19, 2019|access-date=November 14, 2019|website=[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]|author=((Miss2Bees))|archive-date=November 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191110060305/http://thesource.com/2019/09/19/dmx-def-jam/|url-status=live}}</ref>