Royce Da 5’9″ has revealed that he has been battling health complications that have pumped the brakes on his music career.

In an interview with Rolling Stone about Big L‘s new posthumous album Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King, which he helped oversee, the Detroit rapper said that for the past several years he’s been dealing with lingual dystonia, a neurological condition that causes spasms in his face and tongue, preventing him from recording music and even talking.

“My cranial nerves and my vagus nerve were all inflamed. I got a genetic condition called the COMT gene that processes dopamine slower than normal,” he explained. “And when I did a neurochemistry test, [I found out] the left hemisphere of my brain produces less dopamine than the right. So not only is it less dopamine, but

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