‘Thank God for every single moment’: DMX’s biggest revelations from Part 1 of his last interview

DMX left the world with poignant messages to unpack after his death. 

The Ruff Ryders rapper (real name Earl Simmons) gave his last interview three weeks before he died. His words are airing for the first time in “Uncensored: DMX,” a two-part docuseries that started Sunday on TV One. The second installment, “Uncensored Special: DMX the Icon,” airs Monday (10 p.m. ET). 

Last month, the “Party Up (Up In Here)” star was admitted to the hospital and put on life support after experiencing a heart attack. A week later, he died at age 50. 

“Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end. He loved his family with all of his heart, and we cherish the times we spent with him,” his family told The Associated Press, adding that his music “inspired countless fans across the world, and his iconic legacy will live on forever.”

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“I always feel like I’m going to look back on my life, just before I go, and thank God for every single moment,” DMX says in Part 1 of the docuseries. “When (the moments) come together, you see the beauty of who you are and why you are.”

DMX used some of his final words to share positive messages. Here are the biggest moments from the interview: 

DMX performed at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in 2015. (Photo: Mark Davis, Getty Images for Coachella)

DMX believed he met an angel as a child 

While visiting a family friend with his mom and younger sister in Yonkers, New York, DMX said he felt like he met an angel after he was hit by car. 

He was 4 and had been told to watch his sister outside the building where his mom was visiting a friend. He found a dime and abandoned his post to buy a lollipop and a ball. 

“As soon as I stepped off the curb coming down from the store, a car hit me (and) knocked me way over on the other side of the street up under another car,” he recalled. 

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He worried about being in trouble with his mom, so he tried to get off the ground until a white woman approached him with a clipboard and told him to lie down. After his mom came to the scene and emergency vehicles were called, the woman disappeared. 

“You’d think that she would’ve stuck around because she saw the whole thing. I don’t know, I felt like it was an angel,” DMX said. “She got no business being in the ‘hood with a (expletive) clipboard.” 

A woman holds a picture of late rapper DMX at his "Celebration of Life Memorial" at the Barclays Center on April 24, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo: Brittainy Newman, AP)

DMX had a special connection with dogs 

Fellow Ruff Ryder rapper Styles P describes DMX in the docuseries as a “dog man.”

The rapper was known to own dogs throughout his lifetime and would often feature dogs on the cover of albums including “Year of the Dog” and “Grand Champ.” DMX described dogs as “companions” and a “genuine gift from God.” 

“(There are) two things capable of unconditional love: a dog (and) God. Same word spelled backwards,” he said. “I really feel like dogs are close to God.”  

DMX’s dog Boomer was one of the rapper’s closest friends.  The rapper said that people were more scared of a dog than a gun, so he would commit robberies with Boomer by his side.

Boomer died after being hit by car. “I watched my boy die right in front of me,” DMX said.

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