Bow Wow has opened up concerning the lean habit that left him “shedding my thoughts” and hospitalized earlier than ultimately quitting the drug.
In line with Bow Wow, he was on the top of his lean habit whereas recording Face Off in 2007, his collab album with Omarion.
“I used to be sipping lean,” he stated throughout his current look on The Artwork of Dialogue. “I used to be sipping a lot syrup.”
The Quick and Livid star admitted he “was consuming that s### like loopy and “I used to be shedding my f###### thoughts. That lean s### had me f##### up. I used to be simply all the time irritated.”
Bow Wow defined that the lean made him fly off the deal with, and he would really feel a continuing itch, one of many side-effects of the drug. His habit received so dangerous that he was consuming the substance always. At one level, he was consuming a lot that Lil Wayne gave him a “child bottle” stuffed with lean whereas taking pictures a video.
Nonetheless, Bow Wow ultimately realized the severity of his lean habit when he collapsed whereas on tour with Chris Brown.
“The opening night time was in Cincinnati and after I received off stage, I collapsed,” Bow Wow recalled. “I went straight to Cincinnati College Hospital. My abdomen was so f##### up that I ended up going again residence to Atlanta after the primary present.”
Issues solely worsened as soon as Bow Wow returned residence and his physique started withdrawing from lean.
“I’m throwing up, I’m shivering within the mattress, I’m sweating, I’m going via it…I didn’t know I used to be having withdrawals. That’s how a lot lean I used to be consuming,” he defined.
Bow Wow was too sick to return to the tour and credit his publicist, the late Pattie Webster, with retaining the information a secret. She issued an announcement informing the press that the rapper was unable to return because of dehydration.