DMX became an international superstar, but remained a Westchester guy It seems everybody from Westchester County has a DMX story. Whether it was bumping into him shopping at Target in White Plains or running into him at a New Rochelle barbershop, locals remember the hip-hop icon as always out and about on his home turf. “He would always stop for pictures with people and have regular conversations,” said A.J. Woodson, editor-in-chief of the news site Black Westchester. DMX wouldn’t be surrounded by bodyguards when he was out in public and never put on a star exterior like some other entertainers, according to Woodson, himself a former MC with the underground hip-hop group JVC FORCE.