Fans can rest assured, American rapper and producer Dr. Dre is back home.
Contacted by The
Associated Press
, the lawyer for the West Coast star confirmed on Saturday that his client had returned to his home, without giving further details.
The 55-year-old rapper announced on January 5 that he was in hospital with a suspected ruptured aneurysm.
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Another rapper, Ice-T, claimed to have been able to chat via FaceTime with Dr. Dre on January 15.
“
He has just returned home.
He is safe and looks good,
”he posted on Twitter.
A reassuring message that supports the one posted on Instagram 10 days earlier by the sponsor of G-Funk: “
I'm doing very well and I'm receiving excellent care from my medical team
”.
Despite this, the
Nuthin 'but a' G 'Thang
songwriter
was in intensive care for several days,
TMZ
reported
, creating a wave of panic in his fan community.
Andre Young, whose real name is, is one of the most influential figures in hip-hop.
He rose to stardom with gangsta rap pioneers NWA in the 1980s. In the following decade he founded Death Row Records, then Beats Eletronics, his headphone company, which Apple bought for millions of dollars.
Dre has worked with the greatest artists in his discipline such as Eminem, of whom he was the mentor, Snoop Dogg or even 50 Cent, and launched gangsta rap and G-Funk on the west coast.
The news of the rapper's hospitalization had triggered a wave of concern on social media, especially from friends like Ice Cube, who tweeted: “
Send your love and prayers to friend Dr. Dre.
".
“Get over it Dr. Dre, we need you,” Snoop Dogg wrote on Instagram.