Kanye West and the Sunday Service Choir Perform at DMX s Memorial
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Kanye West and the Sunday Service Choir gave a hauntingly beautiful performance at DMX’s celebration of life on Saturday, performing several songs in honor of the late rapper.
Shrouded under red lighting and hooded sweatshirts, speculation soon swirled on Twitter if it really was West and the Sunday Service Choir on stage, but a representative for DMX’s family confirmed to
Variety that they performed at the memorial.
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The memorial took place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. with a limited capacity of 1,900, and was also livestreamed on DMX’s YouTube and Instagram accounts. En route to Barclays, DMX’s casket was carried by a black monster truck with “Long live DMX” painted on the side. A procession of hundreds of motorcyclists, in homage to hip-hop collective Ruff Ryders, rode from DMX’s birthplace of Yonkers to Barclays Cent