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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Elano on March 23, 2009, 11:01:28 AM
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As Trick Daddy prepares for the release of his upcoming autobiography, he has revealed that he is also dealing with a serious health issue.
The Miami-bred rapper appeared on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show today (March 23) to promote his autobiography Magic City: Trials of a Native Son.
During the interview, he made the shocking revelation that he suffers from Lupus, an incurable autoimmune disease, which makes the immune system attacks the body’s cells and tissue.
Lupus affects all major organs in the human body, including the heart, kidneys and nervous system.
“I went to the doctor like 12 years ago. He took all kinds of tests, because I was trying to get rid of what we call dry skin, she did biopsies and blood tests and swab tests. She told me I have lupus. I am allergic highly to the sun, that’s my worst enemy. It’s like an AK-47 with a double clip on it. I could jeopardize kidney and liver failure from the treatment and the medication.”
The disease, which affects African-American and Hispanics in disproportionate numbers, particularly women. The rapper also learned that a close female friend had the disease, when he noticed a visible change in her appearance.
“A lot of people try to cover it up with regular make up. It makes your skin pigmented. You can go from dark to light and not light to dark. You have to cover it up and conceal it…my mama had 11 children from 10 different men. If she can live with that I know, I can live with this."
The disease has already taken the life of prominent Hip-Hop producer James “J. Dilla” Yancey, who died from complications of the disease on February 19, 2006, just three days after his 32nd birthday.
In related news, Trick Daddy also announced he has landed his first major film role in a film that begins shooting next week. “They got me playing in a movie with a lot of gangsters from The Wire and the big black films. I can me, I can be a G in it.”
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That's unfortunate, Hope dude can overcome & live a long life. (With as less pain & suffering possible)
Trick is that dude, got some good music on his resume.
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That's unfortunate, Hope dude can overcome & live a long life. (With as less pain & suffering possible)
Trick is that dude, got some good music on his resume.
Co sign
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I am not a fan of Trick Daddy but auto immune diseases are terrible at the best of times, I wouldn't wish that on anyone, I hope he is able to stay wrong.
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this is crazy.. i remember after tricks 2nd album he had a lil interview..where he was speakin on his grandmother..and how she tell him his family suffered from it..it skipped generations..like his granny had it..it skipped his parents now its on the kids..
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damn thts no good lets hope he dont go out like dilla did
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damn thts no good lets hope he dont go out like dilla did
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damn thts no good lets hope he dont go out like dilla did
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DAMN.
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poor guy
my condolences to his fam
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my mama had 11 children from 10 different men.
Fucking close her legs
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I've never been a fan of his music but hopefully he can go on to live a long life an as normal a life as possible.
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I am not a fan of Trick Daddy but auto immune diseases are terrible at the best of times, I wouldn't wish that on anyone, I hope he is able to stay wrong.
Co Sign! Wouldnt wish any disease on my worst enemy let alone this type of shit!
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That's unfortunate, Hope dude can overcome & live a long life. (With as less pain & suffering possible)
Trick is that dude, got some good music on his resume.
word
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sad news, hope trick stays strong
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cool
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I've never been a fan of his music but hopefully he can go on to live a long life an as normal a life as possible.
Same here. Even if he wasn't 1 of the less than 5 black dolphin fans on the planet like me. If he's allergic to the sun, maybe a move to the pacific northwest will be a better home residence. Main time it don't rain there, its the summer.
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That's unfortunate, Hope dude can overcome & live a long life. (With as less pain & suffering possible)
Trick is that dude, got some good music on his resume.
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cool
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A week ago today (March 30), Miami rapper Trick Daddy revealed during a radio interview with The Rickey Smiley Morning Show that he has been suffering in silence for years with the disease Lupus .
Late last week, Trick candidly spoke with HipHopDX about his battle with the life-threatening autoimmune disease, revealing that he has abandoned treatment necessary to successfully stave off the Discoid Lupus he suffers from potentially spreading from damaging his skin to ravaging internal organs.
“I stopped taking any medicine that they was giving me,” Trick told DX, “because for every medicine they gave me I had to take a test or another medicine every thirty days or so to make sure that medicine wasn’t causing side effects – dealing with kidney or liver failure…I just said all together I ain’t taking no medicine.”
Trick was initially using expensive prescription sunscreen to protect his skin (that he explained was “greasy or oily and uncomfortable”), and taking cortisone shots to treat lesions that appeared on his body.
“If there’s one thing I want people to know, do not accept those steroid shots for [lesion] flare ups,” said Trick of the cortisone injections. “They leave scarring. They leave indentations in your skin. Trust me. I used to get these shots in my face and in my beard. So I let my hair grow…’cause the breakouts are in the hairy areas more so than other [areas]. So I [grew a] beard, [but] after awhile I was like, ‘Fuck it, I’ll just shave…’”
In addition to using prescription sunscreen, taking cortisone shots and additional medications, Trick was told by his doctor to alter his lifestyle in ways he has found difficult to do.
“We ain’t gon’ ask that question,” Trick gently replied when asked if he had stopped smoking – an activity that can expedite the appearance of skin lesions. “Just pray for me. Help me help myself so we can help others.”
Clearly, Trick’s primary personal focus is educating the masses on the form of Lupus he suffers from, a condition that can include symptoms such as the aforementioned lesions, damaged hair that can eventually stop growing, and chronic fatigue.
“With my friends I joke about me having to always look in the mirror and make sure my face ain’t too fucked up,” said Trick of how he copes with his own symptoms. “Or, I joke about me forgetting that I can’t go outside with my tank top on… I learned as a kid to joke about my mama being on welfare, and to joke about our lights was off, and to joke about all those things. ‘Cause if I can laugh at it, then you couldn’t make me cry about it.”
First diagnosed in 1998, after going to the doctor seeking treatment for severe dry skin that had begun to appear spotted and discolored, Trick was subsequently told to take the aforementioned drug treatments, limit sun exposure, and to stop drinking and smoking.
But Trick quickly tired of the medical routine he was subjected to.
“It gets so serious to that point, with the needles and doctor visits, I know it discourages people,” he explained. “And I just need to encourage them to do whatever they need to do to make [themselves] better.”
In a combination of nobility and arguable foolishness, Trick Daddy is now encouraging others to seek the treatment he himself has stopped taking.
“Me and the Lord best friends,” he noted. “That’s why he sent me to talk to people about this…At least I can give the youth that’s dealing with The King of Miami tells DX exclusively, “I ain’t taking no medicine.”, [or] even the older generation that’s [living with the disease] – some people’s dealing with a form of Lupus that’s even crippling that I know me talking about it could even make them feel better. And if I could just make them feel better, then I feel like I did my job.”