Krayzie Bone was in the studio working on a collaborative album with DJ Paul shortly before he was hospitalized.
Just yesterday it was reported that the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member was in critical condition after checking into hospital last week for a serious health complication.
The 50-year-old rapper reportedly coughed up large amounts of blood on Friday (September 22), and after undergoing a CAT scan, doctors discovered an artery was leaking inside one of his lungs.
He later underwent emergency surgery in an attempt to stop the bleeding, but it was unsuccessful. Krayzie, who suffers from the inflammatory disease sarcoidosis, was due to have surgery again on Monday (September 25).
Three 6 Mafia‘s DJ Paul sat down with TMZ on Monday to discuss Krayzie Bone’s hospitalization, as well as their music plans.
“Before it got out to the press, one of our close homies out in L.A. that’s both one of our mutual homies — he used to tour with Krayzie before I even knew him, my boy Sean — he hit me,” Paul explained when asked how he learned about his close friend’s health issues.
“He said, ‘When’s the last time you talked to Krayzie?’ I said, ‘Well, I was just with him Wednesday.’ He said, ‘Well, Thursday, he went into the hospital. He took himself to the hospital. He was coughing up blood.’
“I’m like, ‘What? Really? I saw him Wednesday.’ He was in a great mood. He was doing good. He brought me his new IPA that he brought out. We was in there chilling. It’s the first time I didn’t take pictures of us in the studio.”
DJ Paul revealed that he and Krayzie Bone recorded multiple songs during their recent studio session and the Bone Thugs luminary was writing lyrics even faster than usual.
“The weird thing about Wednesday is it was the first time we did more than one song,” he said. “Usually we do one song ’cause it takes him a while to write ’cause it’s a lot of words going into each line. A tongue twister. It’s probably like…
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