A week ago today (March 30), Miami rapper Trick Daddy revealed during a radio interview with The Rickey Smiley Morning Show that he has been suffering in silence for years with the disease Lupus.

Late last week, Trick candidly spoke with HipHopDX about his battle with the life-threatening autoimmune disease, revealing that he has abandoned treatment necessary to successfully stave off the Discoid Lupus he suffers from potentially spreading from damaging his skin to ravaging internal organs.

I stopped taking any medicine that they was giving me, Trick told DX, because for every medicine they gave me I had to take a test or another medicine every thirty days or so to make sure that medicine wasnt causing side effects - dealing with kidney or liver failureI just said all together I aint taking no medicine.

Trick was initially using expensive prescription sunscreen to protect his skin (that he explained was greasy or oily and uncomfortable), and taking cortisone shots to treat lesions that appeared on his body.

If theres one thing I want people to know, do not accept those steroid shots for [lesion] flare ups, said Trick of the cortisone injections. They leave scarring. They leave indentations in your skin. Trust me. I used to get these shots in my face and in my beard. So I let my hair growcause the breakouts are in the hairy areas more so than other [areas]. So I [grew a] beard, [but] after awhile I was like, f**k it, Ill just shave