{"id":147618,"date":"2021-12-16T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=147618"},"modified":"2021-12-16T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:27:47","slug":"i-used-to-hate-my-dad-dmx-didnt-listen-to-his-music-but-now-im-proud-to-be-his-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/i-used-to-hate-my-dad-dmx-didnt-listen-to-his-music-but-now-im-proud-to-be-his-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to hate my dad DMX & didn't listen to his music – but now I'm proud to be his daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

ONE of DMX's daughters never met her father and said she didn't listen to his music until her teenage years because she hated him for not being present in her life. <\/p>\n

But her hatred slowly softened to admiration as she evolved through her own life's obstacles and troubles, Raven Barmer-Simmons, 27, told The Sun in an exclusive interview. <\/p>\n


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"Seeing him on TV was like throwing it in my face that he was never around," Barmer-Simmons said. "That was the closet thing I had to a relationship with my dad. But I can honestly say now I'm proud to be his daughter. <\/p>\n

"My father was a good man regardless of his mistakes, regardless of everything that's happened. The mistakes don't make a person," she said during an emotional interview. <\/p>\n

Until her early teens, Barmer-Simmons, who is one of DMX's 15 kids that he fathered with multiple women, actively avoided his music and his movies. <\/p>\n

"Growing up, I was angry and confused. I felt lost," she said. "If he came on the TV or the radio, I made them turn it off."<\/p>\n

Her attitude towards her father began to change when she was a young teenager going through her own troubles in the streets of Baltimore. <\/p>\n

She didn't feel comfortable going into details about her struggles, but said they made her see her father differently. <\/p>\n

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