DMX’s dedication to his spirituality runs much deeper. While in jail in 2009, he tried to project positivity in an interview.

“I came here to meet somebody —don’t know who it was, but I’ll know when I see him. And I came here to give him a message. And that message is Jesus loves them,” he said.

During an interview he did in prison in 2012, he spoke of the “call” he felt to be a pastor and use his body as a spiritual vessel.

“I will not be a priest. I will be a pastor,” he said. “I’m already a deacon. I will be a pastor.”
He said in his prison interview that he wanted to give his first sermon in the church after he was released.

“That’s gonna be incredible for me and I hope it’ll be incredible for the congregation of that church,” he said.

“I hope I’m able to reach somebody you know and touch somebody and bring them closer to the Lord.”