Rapper Busta Rhymes said he was motivated to lose weight after an alarming experience while having sex.

One night I was getting ready to have, make, you know... I was getting ready to have an intimate moment with my ex, he recalled during a recent cover interview with Mens Health dedicated to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.

Rhymes said that he began having a really difficult time breathing after the moment.

I got up and I walked out of the bedroom, so she wouldnt panic seeing me trying to keep myself calm. I was trying to inhale and it felt like it wasnt working, Rhymes, born Trevor George Smith Jr., continued. That was scaring me so much that it was a mindfuck, because I had to stay calm and make sure she didnt hear me panic or hear me struggle to breathe.

He added: I felt like I was having like an asthma attack but I dont have asthma.

The Touch It rapper, who weighed roughly 340 pounds in 2019, said he left the bedroom and headed to the living room as he was forcing myself to inhale, to relax.

After the father of six returned to the bedroom, he revealed his now-ex said something to him that really fucked him up.

She was like, Yo, this is not who I fell in love with, he recounted. She didnt know what had happened outside, but she was looking at my body and the weight. She was like, You gotta lose this weight. This breathing is scaring me.