Yo! MTV Raps pioneer Doctor Dre (not to be confused with Dr. Dre) has suffered a defeat in his battle against Type 2 Diabetes.
The 56-year-old recently had his leg and ankle amputated after falling down the stairs. Diabetes has already robbed him of much of his vision.
A GoFundMe page is seeking $500,000 for Dre for post-op care. So far it's at a little over 13K.
"Dre has been struggling with the effects of advanced Type II diabetes for a long time," the GoFundMe description reads. "Dre's announcement that the illness had robbed him of his eyesight was one of the ways he's gone on to 'wag[e] a public battle with diabetes'—as a story in The New York Times described his efforts in 2016."
Doctor Dre and Ed Lover helped bring Hip Hop to the mainstream as the co-hosts of Yo! MTV Rap in the late eighties and into the nineties.
Prayers.