Houston (the rapper) is on tour along with Chingy. He is very depressed and attempts to jump out of a window in his hotel room. He is prevented from doing so. It is said that Houston is upset with all the sin he sees around him. He tells his bodyguards that he’s fine and he’s going to read the bible.
“It’s quiet in there,” think the bodyguards, “Too quiet!” The find blood on the floor and Houston with a bloody towel to his face. Houston says it’s a nosebleed. The bodyguards demand to see. Houston removes the towel and the see he has no eye.
“It’s better this way.” Houston is reported telling them.
Wonder how he scooped it out? sppon? Maybe a wire coat hanger.
Remember when Bushwick Bill from Geto Boys lost his eye because he begged his girlfrined to shoot him in the head, only she botched the job? They made an album cover out of it!
This eye damage motif must be some kinda 5th Ward thang.
Well exactly. And as the fundumentalists have been telling us that the bible is 100% literal and metaphors of Of Satan, I assume they’ll be along soon to appaud his actions.
Houston was apparently hospitalized last year for treatment of manic-depression and has “struggled” since then. Personally, I read “struggled” as either having gone off his meds, or been using unprescribed additional medication. He was strung out on PCP at the time of the eye-gouging. If he was peaking in a mania, he could have had a psychotic break, as well.
The sad part is that presumedly the people who were closest to him could see that he had problems but were more concerned about keeping the money train rolling than getting him the help he needed.
