Swizz Beatz is one of the most revered hip-hop producers in the genre, and it’s crazy to think that his career might’ve been wildly different at one point. Moreover, he recently appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show and spoke on a health scare earlier in his career that made doctors think he’d never walk again. Furthermore, said scare occurred because, to put it simply, the Bronx native was just working too hard. However, he remarked how he was able to rise above and continue developing his now legendary career, and how that experience gave him a different perspective.
“When you come from nothing, and you finally get success, [you] get a piece of what you thought you could never get from your surroundings,” Swizz Beatz told Hudson. “We just have a habit of going hard as men, you know, and it caught up to me. I remember staying up for four days straight just over-pushing it. It messed up my immune system — I had spinal meningitis. And I remember going to the hospital, and the doctor was cold. He was cold as ice.
Swizz Beatz’s Career Almost Faced A Massive Obstacle
Swizz Beatz says doctor once told him he’d never walk again after health scare
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“As soon as I walked in, he said, ‘okay, you might not die, but you’ll never walk again,’” Swizz Beatz continued. “That was the first thing they said to me when I went into the hospital. But I was in so much pain, I was like, ‘Let’s get on to it.’ But, Alhamdulillah [Praise be to Allah], I came back, and I beat the odds with that one. And now, I try to take my health a little bit more serious.” What’s more is that this isn’t the only surreal story the 44-year-old recently told.
“Man, honestly, it don’t even feel like [DMX] is gone,” he told The Breakfast Club. “It just feels like he’s away, somewhere chillin’. And then the anniversary will come around or I’ll speak to his fiancée or I’ll speak to his son and I’m like, ‘Whoa.’ Or I’ll see a video or I’ll scroll through my phone and see pictures and it’ll hit me. But the thing that makes me feel easy about it is he came to me. I seen him in my dream. He came to me. And this was, like, super quick too. And he let me know he was good. I’m the person that is like, ‘He ain’t come to see you, what you talkin’ about?’ I seen him. I felt him, I can smell like- I just couldn’t hear him talk.” Come back to HNHH for the latest on Swizz Beatz.