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May 15, 2003 - Wyclef Jean, DMX and family were on hand for the New York premiere of 'Matrix Reloaded' on Tuesday (May 13) at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. Check out the pictures at FilmMagic.

May 12, 2003 - Christina Aguilera has named her racier alter ego X-Tina, rapper DMX recently had a hit with 'X Gon' Give It to Ya', and with the release of 'X2: X-Men United', many are wondering: So what's with all the X-citement? "It comes up a lot, whether it's movies or video games, and when it comes up, kids and teenagers think it's for them," says Selina S. Guber, publisher of Kidtrends, a brand marketing newsletter tells Cox News Service. "X has that magic for them," she has. "Why it's not C, I don't know." Read more.

April 23, 2003 - DMX chatted with XXL magazine about his beef with Ja Rule and his ongoing trouble with his record label, and surprisingly brought up the Backstreet Boys as musicians in a similar predicament. Asked if he was jealous of Ja, X said, "I'd be jealous of the Backstreet Boys when they sold more than me. The only reason you think of jealous of you [Ja Rule] is because you know you sound like me. That's common fu**ing sense, man. You think Backstreet Boys are jealous of N'Sunk or whatever the fu** they name is? Fu** no - they have better things to worry about." As for his label dissing him, X added, "Goin' back to Backstreet. They made their label huge and brought them in sh**loads of money and now they can't record, I heard, because their label is fu**ing them around. I feel them. They're real mutha fu**as in their own way, but their management 'team' refuses to recognize that sh**. I feel those men or boys or whatever the fu** you wanna call them. We give our souls to our music. We put our lives on the fu**ing wax and [the labels] treat us like sh**."

April 23, 2003 - Billboard reports DMX is in negotiations to star in and produce Phoenix Pictures' action-thriller 'Werewolf' for Italian director Dario Piana. A late-2003 start date in Montreal is being eyed. Written by Marshall Todd, the film is described as being in the vein of 'Blade.' It will see DMX play a mysterious bluesman whose mission is to rid Earth of werewolves, the last of whom live among the rich, glamorous, and drug-addicted in the Hollywood Hills. Read more.

April 18, 2003 - The Chicago Sun-Times reports DMX was spotted at the Wave bar in the W Hotel with a remote control car in tow, which he took outside to spin on the sidewalks at the advice of hotel personnel.

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