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DMX Meltdown Triggers Concert Melee
One jam led to another for DMX this weekend.
The Ruff Ryder was coheadlining Saturday's Back to School Jam with Lloyd Banks and the 50 Cent-powered G-Unit when sound problems at Nassau Coliseum caused the mercurial X man to cut short his set and spark a melee that left one fan injured.
According to Nassau Police Detective Sergeant James Watson, the rapper otherwise known as Earl Simmons, had been on stage no more than 15 minutes when the meltdown occurred.
"There came a point in time that the sound was turned down and up again during DMX's performance and it appears he became irate at the soundman," Watson tells E! Online. "DMX ran toward the sound person, jumped off the stage and onto the soundboard and started a fight with the person."
Security stepped in to break up the fisticuffs and escorted DMX out of the Long Island venue through a nearby tunnel.
But, according to police, things got dicey when DMX's entourage started tossing bottles of water at the simmering crowd.
"Chairs were thrown by the audience to the stage andÂÂÂ?at one point a member of DMX's entourage picked up one of these steel folding chairs and threw it back into the crowd, striking the victim in the head," says Watson.
The concertgoer, an unidentified 29-year female, suffered a gash on her head. She was transported to Nassau University Medical Center where she received nine staples to close the wound before being released.
Detectives continue to investigate the incident, but haven't yet interviewed DMX or named the suspected chair-thrower.
Publicists for the rapper at his label, Sony Urban, declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for the Nassau Coliseum.
Per New York's Newsday, the audience was already in a bad mood long before DMX took the stage.
Atlanta-based rapper T.I., whose King topped the charts earlier this year, was also supposed to be among the headliners at the concert, sponsored by local radio station Hot 97. But organizers ended up scratching him from the lineup without explanation.
Ticket holders weren't notified beforehand and were reportedly surprised when the arrived to find signs around the Coliseum indicating the rapper was no longer on the bill.
Meanwhile, poor ticket sales meant the venue was half-full. And, making things worse, the show had been running way late.
According to Newsday, Banks and his posse didn't arrive on stage until 10:30 p.m., an hour and a half after the prior act, Yung Joc. A deejay explained to the crowd that the delay was due to some "security issues."
But 30 minutes into the set, which included raps by Fiddy and G-Unit, the sound was abruptly cut off. Banks and his crew left the stage apologizing to fans.
Next up was DMX. Starting his set at 11:30, the Grand Champ had been rhyming for just 15 minutes when his mike went out in the middle of a Busta Rhymes cover, "Touch It."
DMX reportedly dropped an F-bomb and then made a beeline for the soundman.
As the rapper was escorted out, fans began throwing food items at his bodyguards on the stage, prompting the retaliatory bottle-throwing.
After the chair dinged the audience member, police secured the venue and organizers scrapped remaining performances by Jim Jones and Foxy Brown.
DMX has been on the road supporting his latest album, Year of the Dog...Again, which debuted at number two on the Billboard charts in August.
The entertainer, who has a long rap sheet, recently canceled a USO tour of American military bases in the Persian Gulf, partly due to continuing legal trouble.
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