DMX is out of hospital after being resuscitated in hotel car park
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US hip-hop star DMX is out of hospital after he stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated in a hotel car park in New York state.
The rapper's lawyer Murray Richman confirmed he had recovered after collapsing in Yonkers city on Monday.
Mr Murray said he didn't know what caused DMX to stop breathing but added that he does have asthma.
A Yonkers Police spokesperson told Newsbeat that officers found a 45-year-old man in a car park.
An ambulance crew gave DMX a drug called Narcan to revive him and he was then taken to hospital immediately the spokesperson added.
DMX stopped breathing in the hotel car park
Satish Palav, night manager at the Ramada Inn in Yonkers, confirmed to Newsbeat that DMX had been staying there.
He said: "In the parking lot, DMX I believe he called 911 because he couldn't breathe.
"Then the ambulance came and they took him to hospital."
He said the rapper checked in on 1 February but he hasn't returned since being taken to hospital.
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