Sample My Pit Bull   What follows is extraneous: outtakes and
stray threads from my DMX feature in the new GQ. The dictates of
celebrity profiles—establishing scene, nut graph, restatement of
well-known details—often forbid space for loose factoids, minor
characters, and critical rambling. You know, the fun stuff. I
wondered what it'd read like, shorn of all support.    • Earl
Simmons spent much of his youth behind bars or in institutions;
his adult prison record in New York shows seven arrests, most
notably a four-month stint in 1990 awaiting trial on charges of
robbery and petty larceny, for chain-snatching. DMX: "Beat the
charge, too. Legal Aid. And I did it." I meet his "godbrother"
Forrest, who says that growing up they'd bet $20 they could rob
the first person they saw. Forrest hasn't seen X in five years.
No, he wasn't in jail—he was living and working in Cambodia.
After stardom hit, DMX was accused of rape. "It was a guy that
went around taking pussy, saying it was me because at that point
not too man