Scarface Offers Update On COVID-19 Recovery

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Scarface has sat down with Geto Boys bandmate Willie D once more to supply one other replace on his well being after contracting COVID-19.

Again in March, Scarface spoke with Willie D about testing positive for COVID-19, and enduring extreme signs from the virus whereas being asthmatic. Now, he has supplied an replace on his restoration.

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The pair spoke once more on Willie D’s YouTube channel on Wednesday (April 22), the place Scarface shared that he had simply gotten discharged from the hospital on Monday after recovering from kidney failure and pneumonia in each lungs. He goes on to share how he now has to do dialysis 4 occasions per week for 3 hours a day (the port he makes use of for dialysis will be seen within the video interview between him and Willie), in addition to change his weight loss program.

“I used to be inches away from dying, and in the event you let the docs inform it, they don’t understand how I survive,” Face mentioned. “Outdoors of being blessed I’m resilient, I’m imply. To be that near dying actually make you actually understand that, ‘Man, I’m gonna go dwell now.”

“Earlier than COVID, I by no means had any points with my kidneys in any respect,” he mentioned elsewhere in the course of the dialog. “That shit knocked my kidneys out…that shit is attacking your organs.”

Later within the dialog, Face defined the method of getting a brand new kidney, in addition to gestured to Willie about eager to do one final Geto Boys tour earlier than he stops making music fully.

“Let’s do a farewell [tour], after which we are able to hologram Bushwick Invoice in,” he mentioned across the 33:25 mark. “Possibly see if Public Enemy will be part of us, and Cypress Hill or one thing.”

“That is it — I’m not gonna be placing out anymore songs or doing anymore albums,” he added. “I’m finna be 50-years-old. I gotta discover one thing else to do.”

Nevertheless, Face didn’t dismiss the concept of returning to politics. Final yr, he ran for city council in Houston.