Atlanta rapper Young Dro, whose record Best Thang Smokin’ debuted at #3 in its first week on the charts, deserves all the pimped out, bling-filled, awesomeness he can get his hands on after what he’s been through. The guy recently told us that – after having surgery to repair internal injuries sustained in a shooting when he was sixteen – he was forced to use a colostomy bag for a year. And he’s not shy about dishing up the details: “I hated messing around with that feces,” he exhorts. “For real, it killed me for a long time, shit killed my whole soul.” Literally. Read on if you’ve already eaten and digested your lunch.

RS: Did people give you a hard time about it?

YD: It wasn’t that. Everybody always took a liking to me, so when I did get shot, I had a lot of friends. But it was so uncomfortable. I could be using the bathroom and don’t even want to, you feel me? So it was just, I didn’t go certain places, and sometimes, the little sticky thing around it might open, like a little line might open, and you might smell … so I was like, man I ain’t going anywhere. Most of the time I spent it in the house, or just alone. Cause I didn’t really want anybody to have to be smellin’ all that, you know what I mean?

RS: It was reported that you tried to go to school one day and it just didn’t work?

YD: It just didn’t work that’s what I’m saying. When I got to school – they made me go to school. Everybody came up to me, ‘You alright, you alright?’ So I tried to go to class, I’m sitting there, trying to go to class, and then I went to using the bathroom and I’m like – I can’t. I tried not to eat, so I wouldn’t do it, but it seemed like, it just came out anyway! I couldn’t take it, and then the bag was blowing up. I had to go to the bathroom tried to let the air out. I was about to go crazy. So I stayed home.