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Doctor Dre<\/strong> has made his mark on radio and television, in the movies and in print, working successively as a recording artist (as a founding member of Def Jam’s Original Concept), hip-hop DJ (he was the Beastie Boys’s DJ during the Raising Hell Tour in 1986) , composer, talent scout, on-air personality, actor, author, and critic. He’s undoubtedly best-known as the co-host with Ed Lover of “Yo! MTV Raps” (1989-1995), the tv show that did more than any other to make rap music and hip-hop culture global phenomena. After “Yo!”, Dre and Ed duo funneled their chemistry into major market radio. They held down the morning show on New York’s Hot 97 (1993-1998), then on L.A.’s The Beat (2000-2001), and finally on New York’s Power 105 (2003-2006).<\/p>\n What’s less well known is that Dre<\/strong> has been struggling with the effects of advanced Type II diabetes for a long time. Dre<\/strong>‘s announcement that the illness had robbed him of his eyesight was one of the ways he’s gone on to “wag[e] a public battle with diabetes” — as a story in the New York Times described his efforts in 2016.<\/p>\n Now, sadly, Dre<\/strong>‘s condition has taken a turn for the worse and he lost his right leg to diabetes. He has since been fitted with a prosthetic, and is now learning how to walk with it. If the good Doctor remains true to his unsinkable form, he may someday be running marathons using that prosthetic. Dre<\/strong>‘s insurance stopped paying for his stay in the rehab center on July 20. He requires both a physical therapist and an occupational therapist, neither of whose fees are fully covered by insurance.<\/p>\n