DMX arrested in South Carolina for driving without a license

DMX speaks during the 2012 Rock the Bells Festival press conference and Fan Appreciation Party at Santos Party House on June 13, 2012, in New York. / Mike Lawrie/Getty Images

Rapper DMX has been arrested in South Carolina for driving without a license.

Authorities say the 42-year-old was arrested at 1 a.m. Wednesday after an officer saw him at a gas station in Greer, S.C.

The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, already faced several charges of driving without a license, so deputies say an officer pulled him over after watching Simmons leave a gas station, get into a car and drive away.

Simmons was released after paying a fine. It wasn't clear if he had an attorney.

Simmons was arrested in a Phoenix suburb in 2011 after a trooper clocked him driving at 102 mph. He had recently finished a stint in prison on probation revocation for failing to submit to drug testing and driving without a license.