Reports are doing the rounds that DMX has quit Universal division Def Jam because of run ins with label boss Jay-Z, though I'm a bit confused, because as I remember it DMX has already quit Def Jam and is now signed to Sony division Columbia. It's possible the story is doing the rounds again because the rapper has been dissing Jay-Z in the press.
On Jay's rise to the top of Def Jam, The Irish Examiner quote DMX as saying: "I knew it wouldn't work. We're peers and it always creates problems when your friend suddenly becomes your boss. He's in a position, 'cause he has to do his job, and you're in a position like, 'Yo, this is my friend'".
On Def Jam itself he says: "I made $144 million in the first year - their best ever. How much do you think they gave me? Nothing. Not even a card, and Def Jam was going down. I enabled them to sell the company."
Despite all those previously reported recent run ins with the law, Columbia still hope to have the long awaited new long player from DMX out within the year.