Bow Wow has opened up about his former lean habit, which led to him being hospitalized at one level.
Lean, in response to the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, is a mixture of codeine and promethazine that’s also referred to as “sizzurp.”
The Like Mike star lately appeared on The Artwork of Dialogue, the place he opened up about his habit and what compelled him to finally get clear after seeing the stranglehold lean had on his life circa 2007.
“I used to be sipping lean,” he stated. “I used to be sipping a lot syrup. I stated this after Mac Miller died. I spoke on this s–t. I used to be ingesting that s–t like loopy. In case you return and watch The Highway to Platinum sequence on BET, you’ll see so many white Styrofoam cups. I used to be shedding my f–ing thoughts. That lean s–t had me f—ed up. I used to be simply at all times irritated.”
Bow Wow reached some extent of no return and knew one thing needed to change after collapsing on stage one night time whereas touring with Chris Brown.
“We had been on our tour, I used to be co-headlining with Chris Brown, and the opening night time was in Cincinnati and once I bought off stage, I collapsed,” he recalled. “I went straight to Cincinnati College Hospital. My abdomen was so f–ked up that I ended up going again residence to Atlanta after the primary present.”
Bow continued: “I’m sitting within the hospital not realizing what the f–okay happening, and I get again residence and the s–t will get worse. I’m throwing up, I’m shivering within the mattress, I’m sweating, I’m going by it. I didn’t know I used to be having withdrawals. That’s how a lot lean I used to be consuming.”
He credited his former publicist for making up an excuse of dehydration for the explanation behind him dropping out of the tour when it was actually due to lean.
“I had the very best publicist ever, Pattie Webster,” he added. “She put out a press launch [saying I dropped out] for dehydration. Wasn’t no dehydration — I used to be f—ed up off lean … That’s simply good PR. We didn’t need the world to know that 18, 19-year-old Bow was heavy on the drank.”
Bow Wow and Soulja Boy ruminated about their days pouring up “Lean” on a observe from their 2016 joint challenge Ignorant S–t, named after the “purple drank.” “This my first time f–king with that DJ Screw/ I can’t even keep awake, that’s what that lean will do/ Pour it out that child bottle proper into that juice/ If I take one other sip of it, I’m by,” Bow raps.
Watch the clip of Bow Wow detailing his lean habit beneath.
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