Busta Rhymes Reveals the Moment He Knew He Needed to Lose Weight

Busta Rhymes is opening up about the moment when he realized he needed to lose weight and it happened while he was in the bedroom.

The 51-year-old rapper underwent an impressive body transformation back in 2020 and got into the “best shape” of his life.

“I think I stay in better shape now because I was in horrible shape in 2018 and ’19,” Busta said in a new Men’s Health video. “I never been as heavy as I was in my life until that time. So, I was about 340 pounds, and then I was having all kinda ailments happen.”

After the death of his father in 2014, Busta says he was “drinking, smoking, eating bad.” Also, “I also had a 90 percent blockage in my throat because of polyps on my vocal cords, and my breathing was bad.”

It all came to a turning point while Busta was having sex.

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“I was having a really difficult time breathing, so I got up and I walked out of the bedroom so she wouldn’t panic seeing me trying to keep myself calm,” he said. “I was trying to inhale, and it felt like it wasn’t working. I felt like I was having like an asthma attack—but I don’t have asthma.”

He continued, “That was scaring me so much that it was a mindf–k, because I had to stay calm and make sure she didn’t hear me panic or hear me struggle to breathe. I’m butt-ass naked in the living room, trying to calm myself down. She was like, ‘Yo, this is not who I fell in love with.’ She didn’t know what had happened outside, but she was looking at my body and the weight. She was like, ‘You gotta lose this weight. This breathing is scaring me. When I met you, you wasn’t like a musclehead, but you, you was slim, you was cut, you had your s–t right. I need you to get back to who I fell in love with.’”

Did you see Busta‘s viral moment from earlier this year?