In recent years, Busta Rhymes was known to have a plus-sized body, that's why fans were surprised when the musician lost a big amount of weight. More recently, he detailed what inspired him to change his lifestyle for a better future.
The rapper spoke in an interview with Men's Health where he revealed that he started contemplating about his health after making love with his ex partner.
He began the story by saying that he was getting ready to have an "intimate" moment with his ex. However, after the "intimate interaction," he began having a breathing issue.
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It was so bad as he was having a hard time to breathe normally. He immediately got up and walked out of the bed so his partner would not panic seeing him trying to calm down himself.
"I was trying to inhale, and it felt like it wasn't working. I felt like I was having like an asthma attack," he said.
The alarming thing about his medical emergency was he didn't have any asthma.
"That was scaring me so much that it was a mindf***, because I had to stay calm," headded. (via Uproxx)
Busta Rhymes Reveals What Inspired Him to Lose Weight
After calming himself in the living room, he went back to the bed room where his ex told him that he was not the person she fell in love with.
Although she didn't know what truly happened to him at the time, his partner looked at his body and his weight.
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"You gotta lose this weight. This breathing is scaring me... I need you to get back to who I fell in love with," he recalled what his ex told him.
Busta Rhymes Changed His Lifestyle For the Betterment of His Health
Elsewhere in the interview, he revealed that this is his third time transforming his body and it's his "season" again.
He's trying to work out his muscle and "chisel that six-pack up." To reduce the size of his waist, some of the workouts he do focuses on traps and triceps.
"I'm doing two-a-day workouts, everything: weights, circuits, sauna, cryotherapy," he added of his secrets to losing weight.
Busta Rhymes used to weight over 300 pounds, but today, he's 100 pounds lighter.
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