TI and Young Dro were recent guests on The Breakfast Club, and while talking about the former’s addiction struggles, things kind of went left. One of their friends kept laughing about it, which led to a heated confrontation once it was one chuckle too many, although Dro apologized to him. Nevertheless, they still opened up about the experience and how it impacted, specifically concerning one instance in which Tip’s son Domani found Dro suffering a near-overdose. The details around this are a bit murky, so maybe it’s not exactly how they describe it. Regardless, it was a scary situation that fortunately didn’t escalate any further.
“Man, I’m on borrowed time. You feel me? I’m not supposed to be sitting here doing this interview,” Young Dro expressed. “I saw him lifeless,” T.I. chimed in. “I saw it with my own eyes. Not in person, but my son, Domani, was actually the one that walked in and saw him. He FaceTimed me and said, ‘Hey, what up with Dro?’ I’m tryna wake him up, he won’t wake up.’ I’m like, ‘Dro! Dro! Aye, man.’” “That’s what woke me up,” Dro continued. “I was like, ‘This n***a so annoying!’ I heard him say, ‘What’s wrong?’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know!'”
T.I. & Young Dro On The Breakfast Club
In addition, Young Dro also said that Domani performed CPR on him, playfully joking that he almost fractured his chest in the process. That aside, he’s been very vocal recently about his path of recovery and his sobriety journey, which he’s been on for about three years now. However, due to how the Atlanta native continues to go out with friends, he said that he’s still surrounded by that lifestyle, per a January 2023-published DJ Vlad interview on VladTV. Even though this exacerbates his struggle, he’s still committed to staying clean.
During that Vlad conversation, Young Dro also revealed how his father’s addiction struggles made him absent during his life, and how his mother’s side of the family also faced that obstacle. Fortunately, he seems in a much better place now. As difficult and complex this recovery can be, anecdotes like these show how folks can eventually overcome their addictions.
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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case.
Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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