The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.
I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.
The sickle-cell got me where doctors said I couldn't play sports, I couldn't overexert myself.
Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.
I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.
Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.
Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.
