He’s had a roller coaster ride over the past few weeks due to some complications surrounding seizures, and Lil Wayne has finally clued everyone in to the cause of his ailment.

The “Mrs. Officer” rapper explained, "The bad news is I'm an epileptic. I'm prone to seizures. This isn’t my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh seizure.”

“I’ve had a bunch of seizures, ya’ll just never hear about them. But this time it got real bad ’cause I had three of them in a row and on the third one, my heart rate went down to like 30 percent. Basically, I could’ve died, so that is why it was so serious."

As for the constant tabloid coverage of his health woes (specifically claiming it was sizzurp that caused the seizures), Wayne noted, "That’s what they do. I can’t be upset at that. I get upset at my kids when they do things that I tell them not to do. I can’t be upset at TMZ for doing what they do. They gon’ probably come out tomorrow and say something else about somebody else that ain’t true."