Scarface has paid tribute to both JAY-Z and DJ Khaled for helping him out when he suffered a health scare in 2020.
The Houston rap legend has suffered a series of health issues in recent years but had both Covid and kidney failure at the same time five years ago.
Speaking on Club Shay Shay, Scarface said: “So you remember when I caught the COVID and kidney failure and all that? JAY-Z chucked me a lifeline. DJ Khaled chucked me a lifeline. So can’t nobody tell me shit about JAY-Z and DJ Khaled, because they chucked me a lifeline.
“I’m thankful, you know what I mean? ‘Cause I wasn’t working. So shout out to Hov and DJ Khaled. When I talk to JAY-Z, I call him ‘the keeper of the culture,’ man, ‘cause he do that big brother shit.”
Scarface also underwent heart surgery last year, an event he said left him close to death.
In an Instagram post, the Geto Boys legend shared that he went into hospital last summer for scheduled surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and a “leaky valve,” but “something crazy happened” when doctors opened him up.
Alongside a photo of him and his surgeon, Dr. Andrea Quarti, he wrote: “This is the man, one of the most sought after surgeons in the world, when I was told, ‘this Dr. is hard to get’ he’s one of the best if not THE BEST.
“When I woke up to have a scheduled aortic aneurysm and leaky valve repaired something crazy happened, when he got me cut open, my aneurysm had torn the entire circumference of my aorta (certain death).”
Fortunately for Face Mob, the near-fatal discovery was not beyond the surgical talents of Dr. Quarti.
“[B]ut nope, no surprise to him, I woke 24hrs+ later,” the rapper continued, “and I asked him, why me doc, out of all the people you could’ve worked on?
“He looked up to the heavens and he did this [one finger in the air emoji] wow, and again I say I’m grateful.”
Scarface also needed a new kidney which was donated by his son.
