After coronavirus left him with permanent organ damage, Scarface took to Twitter to ask his fans for help finding a kidney donor.
On Wednesday (October 7), the Geto Boys rapper, born Brad Terrence Jordan, tweeted, "I need a kidney y’all any volunteers? B+ blood type."
Within minutes, fans began flooding his Twitter replies with offers. One person wrote, "I'm B Pos I got you for real. It would be returning the favor. Your music speaks to me more than any artist ever. Learned how to manage depression openly cause of you."
Fellow rapper, Glasses Malone, also replied to Scarface's tweet, writing, "I'm a go find out... all that street shit your music got me thru, a kidney would be my pleasure."
Scarface later announced that he'd "started the process to get a kidney transplant."
"I appreciate the love! it should take me 2-3 months to see if I’m a good candidate, in the meantime you stay healthy, the list will open shortly there after and we can discuss who’s a match.. again I appreciate that y’all," he tweeted on Friday, (October 9).
Scarface revealed his COVID-19 diagnosis in March. A month later, he gave fans an update on his health.
"I fought COVID double bilateral pneumonia—both lungs—and kidney failure in my house," he said, per Complex. "I went back to the hospital. I just got out of the hospital [on April 20] ... I gotta change my entire diet, I gotta do dialysis four days a week, three hours a day. That's taking all my blood out, cleaning it and putting it back in my body."
Scarface later told Fox5 DC that his kidneys never fully recovered. "COVID attacked my lungs first, and then it attacked my kidneys and knocked them out," he explained. "I got full lung recovery, but my kidneys never came back ... I'm still a little weak. I don't have a lot of strength in my legs yet. I still haven't got full taste back and sense of smell yet. But I am glad to be alive."
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