Busta Rhymes Credits 100 Pound Weight Loss To Asthma Attack During Sex

Busta Rhymes, 51, is crediting his 100-pound weight loss due to having an asthma attack during “an intimate moment.” 

Rhymes explained the incident occurred when he was with his ex, “One night I was getting ready to have, make, you know…I was getting ready to have an intimate moment with my ex,” he told Men’s Health. He continued that during this he “had a breathing issue after the intimate interaction.”

He attempted to calm himself down by leaving the room and using deep breathing techniques, but he felt as though he was “having an asthma attack” even though he clarified that he does not suffer from asthma. 

The rapper recalls feeling very frightened during this moment but attempted to stay calm to not scare his ex. When he returned to the bedroom his ex told him, “Yo, this is not who I fell in love with. You gotta lose this weight. This breathing is scaring me… I need you to get back to who I fell in love with.”

A few days after the incident, Rhymes’s son slapped him on his belly rather than his normal fist bumps, which further focused the rapper on his weight. 

Rhymes shared that during the pandemic he weighed around 300 pounds. He started working out and put himself on a diet and not only focused on his weight but on his health overall. This included an issue he was experiencing with his throat as he “also had a 90 percent blockage in my throat because of polyps on my vocal cords, and my breathing was bad.” 

He has been putting off a medical procedure to fix this as he was “scared about surgery for the polyps on my vocal cords because my voice is how I feed my family—the voice is the dragon.”

His doctor gave him a wake-up call when he told him if he did not have the surgery, then he could die in his sleep. 

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Rhymes has been public about the transformation, sharing before and after photos on his Instagram account back in 2020.

He shared the following sentiment with his fans: “DON’T EVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF!! LIFE BEGINS RIGHT NOW!!! MY DEDICATION IS DIFFERENT!! I WOULD NEVER PUT OUT AN ALBUM AND NOT BE IN THE BEST SHAPE OF MY LIFE!! I RESPECT MYSELF TOO MUCH AND I RESPECT Y’ALL TOO MUCH!!! I’M ONLY HERE TO INSPIRE!!”