Opening up about his battle with prescription pills, the ’Relapse’ rapper said: "When you read things about Michael Jackson it's hard to decipher what the f*ck is true, but there's the story of how he woke up at whatever time and he needed something to go back to sleep because he has this or that and it didn't work — that's exactly what used to happen to me.”
He added: “I would take a couple of pills and I would be up an hour later and I'd want more.
“It's one of the pitfalls of fame. I could just say: 'Yo, I need this and this and this,' and they're going to give me whatever I want."
Fortunately the talented rhyme-smith has been clean for nearly two years and credits a new fitness regime and love for his music as the reasons.
He told Complex magazine: "When I finished ‘Relapse’, I had a whole album of material that didn't make it that I wasn't ready to throw away, so that was going to be ’Relapse’ 2.
“But then I got with Dre in Hawaii and started recording more, and now the new material has knocked out all the old songs. But yeah, the new material is definitely different…
"I've kind of flipped the page. Now I'm going for songs instead of one-liners.”
Copyright : MTV Australia
