When I was in my third year of undergrad I signed up to be a Residence Assistant (for the second time). The first time around I was a bit of a stickler for rules and felt like I was supposed to enforce the law. By my second experience, I mellowed and I learned that my job was to make sure that the students in my section didn’t kill themselves or each other.

That second year, some of the more colorful students I lived with had an unhealthy love of hip-hop artist DMX’s song  Party Up (Up in Here). I probably heard that song 500 times as I walked through the hall during those 8 months.

Totally unrelated to the overplaying of that song, according to TMZ, DMX was taken to a Charlotte NC area hospital after coming down with food poisoning after eating shellfish on a flight from Miami.

According to DMX, he had some "bad shrimp" at his baby mama’s house in Miami before he got on a plane — commercial — and then spent most of the flight tossing his cookies in the lavatory.

X tells us … as soon as he touched down he went to Gastonia Memorial Hospital outside of Charlotte … by limousine. Puking, but still balling!!

X spent about four hours in the emergency room getting treated for food poisoning, and then headed home.