Rapper Busta Rhymes shows off 100-pound weight loss caused by ‘asthma attack’ after sex
05.08.2023 - 13:43
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Rapper Busta Rhymes has dramatically transformed his body through a weight loss journey after revealing he had a concerning experience. Rhymes, 51, detailed his 100-pound weight loss and said it was prompted by an "asthma attack" after having sex. "One night I was getting ready to have, make, you know...
I was getting ready to have an intimate moment with my ex," he said during a cover interview with Men’s Health. The rapper continued to say that he started to have a "really difficult time breathing" after the engagement. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Busta Rhymes (@bustarhymes) "I got up and I walked out of the bedroom, so she wouldn’t panic seeing me trying to keep myself calm.
I was trying to inhale and it felt like it wasn’t working," Rhymes shared. "I felt like I was having like an asthma attack—but I don’t have asthma," he added. Shortly after, he confessed that his ex blasted him about his health.
"She was like, ‘Yo, this is not who I fell in love with.’ She didn’t know what had happened outside, but she was looking at my body and the weight. She was like, ‘You got to lose this weight,'" Rhymes recalled. "This breathing is scaring me.
When I met you, you wasn’t like a muscle head, but you was slim, you was cut, you had your s--- right," he recalled his ex saying. "I need you to get back to who I fell in love with." The "Look At Me Now" rapper admitted the heated moment with his ex fueled him to start slimming down. Rhymes had a life-altering event happen to him in 2014 that caused his weight gain.
His father died, and he said that he never properly healed. Instead, he "drowned" himself in work. "I just kept drinking, smoking, eating bad—the whole nasty—and recording a bunch of songs just to escape
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