Rapper DMX managed to avoid the maximum jail term for a $1.7m (£1.2m) tax evasion offence after a judge was persuaded to listen to one of his hit tracks to illustrate how tough his life had been. The ...

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff granted DMX's request to hear his song "Slippin'" while his lawyer recalled his "nightmarish" childhood DMX has been ordered to serve a year in prison for tax fraud. During a ...