It’s raspy and husky, and it only makes anyone he’s speaking to listen closer to what he has to say. survived that wreck and the surgery that followed, and his voice still sounds a bit like wind dragging loose gravel through a canyon. More than three decades have passed since the D.O.C. When he recovered in the hospital, he realized he couldn’t speak.
Later that night, he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed through his windshield when his car hit a tree. Meet the Creators and Activists Leading Social Media's Next Wave The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) I turned off all the lights, leaned over in the front seat like they would pass by me and go, ‘Where did he go?’ They walked up on the car about two minutes later, tapped on the window, and I got out and gave them some shtick and, you know, they loved it.” “So I hit a couple of street corners and pull over in front of somebody’s mansion. “Now I’m just loaded,” he recalls, laughing now that he’s had enough time to come to terms with what happened next. Tracy Curry, lost his voice - a tragedy that reshaped his life in an instant.Īfter a night at the Beverly Hills Hotel that November, the rapper was on his way home when a couple of cops spotted him speeding recklessly through the posh neighborhood. All of those achievements, though, are overshadowed in some ways by the 1989 accident in which the D.O.C., a.k.a.
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He also cofounded Death Row Records with Dre and Suge Knight, and he mentored a young Snoop Dogg on the ins and outs of songcraft when the young rapper only knew how to freestyle.
released his platinum-selling, still-jaw-dropping debut album, No One Can Do It Better, and ghost-wrote rhymes for N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, Eazy-E’s Eazy-Duz-It, and Dr.