Rick previously admitted that he hasn’t read his own book because everything that’s mentioned is something he lived through. “I think it’s a triumph. Everybody don’t admit rising from failure,” he said. The novel gets candid about the rapper’s addiction to a number of substances but it was one hospital visit that made him realize his life needed to change.
“When I woke up in the hospital and I had so many people around me, so many homies, it felt like I was in V.I.P. or some sh*t,” he said. “But it was more like, ‘Damn, we gotta do some special things.’ That mixed with the things I was drinking, the other drugs I was doing, and on top of not resting. [I don’t think] one particular thing would have killed me. But everything combined?”
