Lil xan (aka Diego, full name Nicholas Diego Leanos) has spoken out against his former manager, Stat Quo, for allegedly enabling his drug addiction on tour.
Leanos made the claims in a live stream which he later shared on Instagram, labeling Quo a "terrible fucking human being" and claiming that Quo regularly supplied him with drugs while on tour with people like Nicki minaj Y Juice WRLD.
Noting on the broadcast that he is now sober and no longer wishes to be known as Lil Xan, Leanos said, “He knew all my plugs, so if he couldn't act because I was retiring back then, why yeah, he used to. being a drug addict - I'd make calls, send $ 5,000 here, just to send the drugs anywhere in the world we were.
“He's going to act like he didn't do that, like a fucking hypocrite, and I really feel like I should take him to court, right? Because that was a time when I almost died from drugs. He was so skinny, unhealthy ... "
Leanos goes on to say that his negative experiences with the music industry, in particular his general apathy towards artists dealing with substance dependence, have deterred him from releasing a follow-up to his only studio album, 2018's 'Total Xanarchy'. .
"The industry just sucks," he says. “That's a big reason why I haven't released another album, it's because after being sober, it put a bad taste in my mouth, like, even wanting to make music, knowing how screwed up the industry is. They just want to keep you alive long enough to make their fucking money, and if you die, so much the better for them. Because guess what? It's easier to handle a dead artist than a living one. "
Referencing Juice WRLD's death in 2019 - when at age 21, the late emo-rap pioneer died of a seizure after an overdose of oxycodone and codeine - Leanos continued: “Juice was one of the most talented people, and now they have this entire catalog of music that. .. And who knows if that was Juice's vision. "
“They don't care about artists,” Leanos said, “and that's why it's difficult, and almost traumatizing, to make music right now. And that's why I'm trying to find my love again. "
Later in the broadcast, he says that once Quo "felt that [Leanos] it was useless for him, "he moved the rapper" an hour away "to Corona, California," just not to deal with [him] never again. "According to Leanos," that's when the drug problem got worse, because I felt depressed for being so far from Los Angeles and it got out of control. "
Leanos also alleges that Quo "took" his car and is now asking for $ 30,000 (£ 22,200) to pay for it.
Back in august Leanos spoke about her ongoing mental health struggles in an interview with 60 minutes. He spoke candidly about battling episodes of 'intense anxiety', saying, 'You will jump into the strangest moments in life. I can put on a show for thousands of people and I won't have a drop of anxiety. But the moment I'm in a closed environment, it could be that the most random thing makes me explode. "
He went on to acknowledge that his Lil Xan nickname is to “popularize” the anti-anxiety medication, adding, “I always let it be known that I didn't like my name making it popular. But that's what worked for me. "The rapper had spoke about being hospitalized after suffering "multiple seizures" in October 2020, after he said last summer that he was "sober from all the prescription pills" and that sobriety made him feel "alive."
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