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October 30, 2002 - MTV News spoke with Audioslave's Tom Morello about the group's pair of collaborations with DMX, one of which, 'Here I Come', will be on the soundtrack for the DMX and Jet Li film 'Cradle 2 the Grave'. The other will hopefully land on a future movie soundtrack. "He's awesome," Morello raved of DMX. "He's one of my favorite rappers of all time. It was such a thrill to find out he wanted to work with us." Read more.

October 28, 2002 - MTV News reports Ja Rule spits at DMX in his new album 'The Last Temptation', due November 19th. On the track 'Fu** With Us', Ja raps, "What the fu**'s happening, Earl?/ You're mad at the world or just me, because I'm on top on the world/ ... Crack addict, you know the n---a world ain't having it/ ... Now you lost a good n---a, DMX. One love." Meanwhile, Irv Gotti is claiming songs like Nelly and Kelly Rowland's 'Dilemma' and Jay-Z and Beyoncé's ''03 Bonnie & Clyde' are ripping off Murder Inc.'s hip hop and R&B fusion success. "That's our formula!" Gotti bellowed. "There are a lot of people messing with it." Read more.

October 22, 2002 - DMX, the dark prince of hip-hop, has never shied away from detailing the dark realities of the streets, not in his songs, and certainly not in his latest work, the memoir 'E.A.R.L. - The Autobiography of DMX.' Co-written with Smokey D. Fontaine, the book follows X (born Earl Simmons) during the days before and leading up to the big time, with no-holds-barred descriptions of his life in the projects, on the streets, in juvenile centers, in jail and on the run. MTV News has an exclusive first look at the book here.

October 16, 2002 - emextreme00 writes "X was on Power 99 last night with Golden Girl, I didn't hear the whole thing but I heard the last 2 and a half hours. Heres some notes from it:
- This is his last album, hes stressed and hes fed up with the rap game and he wants to do other things.
- He talked about his book coming out next month, Its about his life, how he grew up, what he's been through up to the beginning of his career.
- He will continue to do movies, he has a new one coming out in march called 'Cradle To The Grave' with Jet Li. He starts filming a new one called 'Static' in January.
- The movie industry is easy and the money is faster than in music.
- He's not gonna waste any more time on the Ja Rule beef.
- If God tells him to come back to music, he will." Read more.

October 13, 2002 - AllHipHop.com reports that in DMX's soon-to-be released autobiography, E.A.R.L.: The autobiography of DMX, DMX claims that Dame Dash admitted X defeated Jay-Z in a battle of the then unsigned emcees, which took place in The Bronx. X says the Roc C.E.O. was talking with Darrin Dean, C.E.O. of Ruff Ryders, after the cipher and told him, "Yo, your man did kinda’ get him." Read more.

October 7, 2002 - The Independent reports a teenage fan of DMX was sentenced to four years detention for raping a 13-year-old girl he lured with a mobile phone text message. After the case, a detective on the case said: "His actions appeared to mirror DMX's lyrics. They talk of all women being bitches and say 'don't give them your real name'. He would not kiss girls in case he caught a disease." In the song 'X is Coming', DMX raps, "If you got a daughter older than 15, I'm gonna rape her, take her on the living room floor right now, what you gonna do?" Read more.

October 7, 2002 - DMX, who co-starred with Steven Seagal in 'Exit Wounds,' snarls to Stuff magazine: "Steven Seagal is a fu**. He's a fu**ing sh**head. With spray-on hair. He talked like he was an old slave master. ‘Hey, wassup? We's gonna have us a barbecue.' I was just like, ‘Man, who the fu** do you think you're talking to? My name ain't Sambo, nigga. Get the fu** out of here with that bullsh**.' Or he'd pull some fake attempting to be friendly fu**. He'd see my wife and be like, ‘Hey, little mama.' We laughed about it. Just like, ‘This guy's a fu**er.' He's a asshole."

October 5, 2002 - Launch.com reports DMX will be keeping ultra-busy the next few months with the release of 'E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography Of DMX' on November 5, his new album 'It's Not A Game' -- also in November, a new fragrance, dubbed Xcaliber, in December, a new movie 'Cradle 2 The Grave' -- which comes out in March, and his latest project the Mary Ella Foundation--named for his paternal grandmother, Mary Ella Holloway--to help underprivileged kids in his New York hometown of Yonkers. Read more.

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