DMX's Continuing Car Trouble

By Gina Serpe


Forget ruff rider--DMX is a ruffer driver.

The oft-troubled rapper racked up even more traffic violations last week after being pulled over by police in White Plains, New York.


The "What's My Name?" singer, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was ticketed Friday afternoon after cops spotted the star's 2001 Chevy Suburban driving at "unreasonable speeds" and making unsafe lane changes, Deputy Commissioner Daniel Jackson told the Associated Press.


While there was no word on exactly how many miles per hour the rapper managed to hit, upon pulling him over, White Plains police also learned that DMX was driving without a license and not wearing a seatbelt.


Clearly, he's not a follower of "click it or ticket."


The 35-year-old rapper was ordered to return to court June 16.


The judicial face time is nothing new for the rap sheet-holding rapper, who has been arrested several times in recent years, all coincidentally revolving around bust-ups with various modes of transportation.


Just last month, the hip-hopster was arrested at London's Heathrow airport after allegedly making verbal threats against the cabin crew on a Britain-bound flight.


The rapper was taken into custody upon arriving at the international hub after causing an onboard ruckus and refusing, yet again, to buckle his seatbelt, choosing instead to launch into a tirade at flight attendants attempting to strap him up. British police neither fined nor issued any penalties to the law-breaker, but did note the incident on DMX's permanent record.


The virtually punishment-free wrist slap was a change of pace for the trouble-prone rapper, who didn't fare nearly so well in his other infractions.


In 2004, the sometime actor scored a double whammy, being busted for plowing his SUV through a security gate at New York's JFK airport and attempting to talk his way out of the smash-up by telling bystanders he was an undercover federal agent.


DMX later copped to the deed and was sentenced to 70 days in jail, the last 10 tacked on for good measure after the rapper arrived late to his sentencing date. He was released in January for good behavior after serving just one month behind bars.


But the rapper's bad car karma doesn't stop there.


His transportation-wrecking track record also includes an arrest last year for driving with a suspended license after the rapper plowed his SUV--a different one, presumably--into a car that in turn rammed a police cruiser. For that incident, DMX was fined $500 and logged yet more time behind bars.