DMX memorial procession shuts down traffic en route to rapper’s private service

Hip-hop legend DMX stopped traffic one last time Saturday — in a casket aboard a monster truck that was part of his high octane funeral procession that growled from Yonkers to Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center, where thousands showed up for the rapper’s 4 p.m. memorial service.

The procession began at around noon in Yonkers — where the rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, grew up. It was led by hundreds of motorcycles, and the rapper’s shiny red coffin was borne on the flatbed of a souped-up monster truck, with “Long Live DMX” emblazoned on the sides of the vehicle. “Hundreds of bikes, ATVs, cars going down Flatbush in the DMX procession toward Barclays,” one eyewitness tweeted.