Six Years on Dialysis, Then a Transplant: B Eazy on the Health Scare Behind His Cannabis Career

In the middle of a wide-ranging conversation about cannabis on The Gobcast episode 58, B Eazy dropped a detail that reframes everything else in the episode: years of opiate addiction destroyed his kidneys, leading to six years on dialysis and a transplant.

The timeline

"I was on dialysis for 6 years," he says on the episode. "My kidneys failed. I had a kidney transplant."

For context, the addiction arc he describes — starting around age 19, getting clean August 1, 2007 — was followed by years of health fallout. Chronic opioid use can contribute to kidney damage, and by his account the damage was severe enough to require dialysis for the better part of a decade.

The transplant happens fast

What surprised him about the transplant itself, he says, is how quickly it comes together once it's scheduled.

"You go in and it happens quick," he said. "They've already done all the testing. They have the door. They're ready for you at that point."

"One day you're on dialysis, then you're never on it again. It's crazy."

The donor

The details of his donor are unusual, and he shared them carefully. "I know my kidney donor was a girl who allegedly passed away in a jail cell," he said, possibly from an overdose. "But her kidney was in really, really good shape."

He explained that transplant recipients wait a period before learning who their donor was — he signed an agreement at the start and described waiting about a year before the information became available. His reaction to the news of her circumstances was gratitude, not judgment: "Thank her. God bless her. She's the GOAT, I guess."

The recovery: leaving AMA

His recovery story is pure B Eazy. He describes himself as "a stubborn, hot-headed dude" who hates hospitals and has signed himself out against medical advice — AMA — "100 out of 100 times" over the years, including after the transplant.

"I think I did it in five days or four days, bro," he said, leaving the hospital weak and barely able to walk. "To the point where I knew right when I was getting up I was weak and I couldn't really walk."

He acknowledged he's not sure he should have — "I don't think I ever told this on a podcast" — but he's alive, and he credits the transplant with that.

Why this matters beyond one person's story

Organ donation saves lives, and the donor pool depends on people registering. His story is a reminder that donors come from unexpected places and that a single donation can give someone back decades — he's now in his 40s, years past the transplant and still building his cannabis brand.

If you're in the U.S., registering as an organ donor takes minutes through your state's registry or the national organdonor.gov — and as his case shows, you never know whose life it will change.

The full story, including how he handled the years between dialysis and today, is in The Gobcast episode 58.