{"id":805730,"date":"2020-03-26T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=973856"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:03:42","slug":"geto-boys-scarface-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/geto-boys-scarface-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Geto Boys\u2019 Scarface Tests Positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GettyImages-470757674W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Houston rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/scarface\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scarface\" data-tag=\"scarface\">Scarface<\/a> said he has tested positive for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coronavirus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coronavirus\" data-tag=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> during a livestream interview with his longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/geto-boys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_geto-boys\" data-tag=\"geto-boys\">Geto Boys<\/a> bandmate Willie D Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The rapper, whose real name is Brad Jordan, described a multi-week ordeal that started with an itch in his throat and included multiple stays in the hospital, pneumonia in both of his lungs, kidney failure and a fever that ran as high as 103 degrees. He also noted that, despite everything, he only officially got his positive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\" id=\"auto-tag_covid-19\" data-tag=\"covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> test result Wednesday night. \u201cI been to the point where I felt like I was going to die,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zsib6LJ7K0o?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jordon said the respiratory issues associated with the coronavirus were particularly brutal because he also has asthma. He said he could barely breathe and that it \u201cfelt like there was an elephant sitting on my chest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The rapper said he wasn\u2019t sure where he picked up the virus, noting he hasn\u2019t been traveling lately and lives a fairly sedentary life. To that end, he urged people to take the pandemic seriously, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t see how nobody can even want to play them games, I don\u2019t want to have fun that bad, where it could take my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jordon said he was still in quarantine at his house, but believed he was finally recovered from the virus. With the end in sight after such an excruciating experience, he joked, \u201cI\u2019m finna go fucking <i>live<\/i> now, man! Like skydiving and shit, I\u2019m gonna go do that. We\u2019ll go on a safari trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Multiple musicians and other celebrities have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks. One of the first, and most notable, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-966048\/\">Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson<\/a>, while others include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/idris-elba-tests-positive-coronavirus-968005\/\">Idris Elba<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jackson-browne-tests-positive-coronavirus-972713\/\">Jackson Browne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/kevin-durant-coronavirus-nba-968928\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/geto-boys-scarface-coronavirus-positive-test-973856\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston rapper Scarface said he has tested positive for the coronavirus during a livestream interview with his longtime Geto Boys bandmate Willie D Thursday. The rapper, whose real name is Brad Jordan, described a multi-week ordeal that started with an itch in his throat and included multiple stays in the hospital, pneumonia in both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:37:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}