The rapper DMX almost
died from a drug overdose in Yonkers on Monday night — but cops saved his life,
a police source said Tuesday. The 45-year-old “Slippin” singer collapsed
next to a white BMW — and stopped breathing — in the parking lot of a
Ramada Inn at around 6:20 p.m., the sources said. He also had no pulse. Four
cops gave him CPR and a medic injected him with Narcan, an anti-opioid used to
reverse the effects of a heroin overdose, the police source said. A witness at
the scene, who knows the rapper, said he had taken a powdered drug before he
collapsed, the police source said. He became “semi-conscious” and was rushed to
a nearby hospital, the source said. “The cops did a great job, they saved [his]
life — no doubt about it,” a police
spokesman said.
A rep for DMX, whose
real name is Earl Simmons, claimed early Tuesday he had suffered another asthma
attack. But a source familiar with the situation fired back, “They’re trying to
cover up by saying it was an asthma attack. Obviously they don’t want to put
out that this was an overdose.” No drugs were found at the scene and no
criminal charges were filed, the police source said.
