Birdman Shares Details of Rapper's Hospital Scare
6:00AM ET March 19th, 2013
Contributor : Stephen Willis
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Rapper Lil Wayne has finally been moved out of the intensive care unit and into a regular room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. TMZ reports that Wayne could be discharged from the hospital soon, and his longtime mentor "Birdman" Williams spoke to Angie Martinez about the ordeal the YMCMB superstar has faced over the past several days.

"He had a seizure, Tuesday night," Birdman said. "We really been in the hospital since Tuesday and you know all this stuff people saying, there's no truth to it at all. He had a seizure and we went to the hospital and we been there ever since. He's doing much better and he's in great shape right now. ... He never left [the hospital], he never left, first of all. He never left and came back. We've been in here since Tuesday. To me, honestly, [the seizure's] just [from] his work ethics. Just how he put in and how he believe in and how hard he work and how much dedication he give to music and to his fans and what he's trying to accomplish in life. It had nothing to do with drugs. No such thing as that, to me, he just works around the clock. He's a hard grinder for this music. But it wasn't nothing about no drugs."

"We was watching a game when all that popped off," Birdman said in reference to reports last week of Wayne being near death. "There was never no truth to that. He was never in that kind of situation throughout that type of situation -- it was never nothing like that. They freaked the world out with that. We were on the way to shoot a video when it happened and we already knew, the second or third time, we just laid him down and called the ambulance. [It happened at the house.] ... The ambulance came [and we went to the hospital]. ... It's nothing they can cure, it's out of our control, live with and contain. They can't tell you nothing but get some rest and change what you've been doing. They got some meds to keep it from coming [back]."