American

rapper DMX has opened up about a sad part of his life. The entertainer has revealed

that his crack addiction started as a teen when his mentor gave him a spliff

laced with the drug.

DMX has struggled

with drug addiction for years, going in and out of rehab. And there were also several

stints in jail.

In a recent interview

with Talib Kweli on his People’s Party show, he explained that his troubles

began at 14 years old when he smoked a ‘crack-laced blunt’ that was given to

him by his mentor. He said that he initially had no idea what he had smoked.

“He

passed the blunt around and… I hit the blunt,” DMX said. “I never

felt like this before, it f***ed me up. I later found out that he laced the

blunt with crack… Why would you do that to a child? He was like 30, and he

knew I looked up to him. Why would you do that to someone who looks up to

you?”

The Ruff Ryders Anthem rapper, who cancelled his 20th-anniversary tour last year to check into rehab, said that that his addiction to drugs has been a real struggle, and he is still trying to get better.

“You

never know when the things you stored away are going to come out and just fall

all over the place…” said the entertainer who previously revealed that he

smoked his first blunt when he was eight years old.

“Let me

open this door and start dealing with this sh*t right now before it comes out

at the wrong time and I just have a meltdown… that’s what’s helped with addiction

and sobriety.”

For years, DMX

drug troubles have been in the news. In 2016, he almost died after he suffered

a drug overdose in a New York parking lot.

DMX stopped

breathing and had no pulse after suffering collapsing in a New York parking

lot. A medic managed to revive him after he stopped breathing and had no pulse.

He had to be hospitalised.

By 2017, he

had to put tour plans on hold to re-enter treatment.

In 2004, he

was also arrested after he and an accomplice tried to steal a man’s car from

the parking lot of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. When cops held

him, they found a handgun, nightstick, 20 rocks of crack cocaine, Oxycodone,

and Diazepam. He would spend only six weeks in jail after accepting a plea deal.

DMX also has

a lengthy rap sheet, getting his first taste of jail in 1986. Over the decades

that followed, he has been arrested many times for various offences, including

cruelty to animal, tax fraud, reckless driving and drug possession.