Back from heart attack, DJ Unk’s still dancing
He addresses the haters and puts some futuristic in his slide
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Talk about irony.
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While DJ Unk’s ascent in the ’00s set a lot of critics’ blood to boiling over what they deemed as the dumbing down of hip-hop at the hands of Atlanta rappers like him, Soulja Boy and D4L, it was Unk who ended up suffering a heart attack last August.
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Barely a month later, the Oomp Camp artist who helped usher Andre 3000’s return to rap with the ’06 dance anthem remix “Walk It Out” was back at work filming an instructional dance video (above) for his new single “Futuristic Slide” — which is starting to get airplay just in time for spring in the A.
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The 28-year-old artist recently talked with XXL magazine about his heart scare and why the haters have every reason to love his music:
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XXLMag.com: Did you know it was a heart attack right away? Because you were on Twitter talking about it while you were going to the hospital.
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DJ Unk: One morning I woke up and I was like, I felt a little pain on the left side of my heart, it felt like a pulled muscle because I’ve been trying to get back in shape—I was trying to shoot basketballs or whatever. As the day went on, it kept bothering me, to the point where my left arm, I almost couldn’t do anything with it. My wife was trying to see what was going on. I had laid down on the bed and I laid back and I couldn’t move. I didn’t know whether to call the ambulance or just try to shake it off. I’m glad I went to the hospital because the doctor said if I would have laid down and went to sleep, who knows if I would’ve got up and that would’ve been a sad thing. That’s why I say, man, I’m thankful that God’s in my life. I’m more focused now; I’m getting more older, wiser.