A month after he revealed his own battle with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, Houston legend Scarface is updating fans on his condition and says he’s glad to be alive.
In a recent interview with fellow Geto Boy Willie D, Facemob reveals the same day he informed fans that he was diagnosed with COVID-19, he was enduring even more health issues while under quarantine. “I fought the COVID, double bilateral pneumonia and kidney failure, all in my house,” Face says while hooked up to a blood stint to help regulate his kidneys.
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“This my new lifeline,” he says his dialysis port. “I gotta change my entire diet. I gotta do dialysis four times a week, three hours a day. That’s taking all my blood out, cleaning it, and putting it back in my body. Before the COVID, I never had kidney problems before.”
Since his initial revelation, Scarface has been mostly mum on social media, occasionally checking in with friends as they streamed live on Instagram. Ice-T initially shared the news that he spoke to Scarface earlier this week during a live stream for the Hip Hop Museum Fundraiser and that The Diary rapper’s health had suffered greatly due to COVID-19.
Ice-T just gave an update on Scarface while appearing on this Hip Hop Museum fundraiser. Said he talked to Face today, and “He had kidney failure. He’s on dialysis now.”
— Shawn Setaro (@SameOldShawn) April 23, 2020
COVID-19 has already claimed the life one Hip Hop figure, New York’s Fred The Godson on April 23. Slim Thug was the first notable artist to reveal his diagnosis with COVID-19 but shared that he recently tested negative after self-quarantining for two weeks.