Hip-hop hitmaker Swizz Beatz is recovering at his Tri-State area home after a recent bout with meningitis, a potentially fatal virus.

Swizz tells MTV: “My immune system was low from not eating right. But I wasn’t paying no attention. I’m going to the crib and I had a hard time getting out of my truck. I get out of the seat and I’m damn near limping. I was barely making it up my steps. I damn near fell in the bed and my wife was like, ‘You have to go to the doctor immediately.’ They had to carry me downstairs … got to the hospital, they stuck a needle in my spine. I escaped some shit. That changed my life, trust me. I’m happy to be able to run around with my son. Imagine I couldn’t even run around with my kids? God gave me one more chance to get my shit right.

“I’m just fucking happy to be feeling better again. I was down. I’m in the crib on chill.”

“I was up for four days straight. I was paralyzed from my legs down. I was twisted. I was fucked up! … N—-s call me ‘The Monster’ because how I work in the studio so hard. I can’t do it no more. I gotta be on the schedule but still be able to do what I have to do. I just gotta invest in my health right now. That day I went in the hospital changed my whole life. I could have came out in a wheelchair.”

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