Paul Wall talks about how he slimmed down with gastric sleeve surgery and dropped 100 pounds. His doctor told him he was morbidly obese:

“I could kinda see it because I would get on planes and I’d be breathing sounding like I’m snoring. I’d get on stage and I’m like I’m gonna have a heart attack…I tried to do it the gym way. I stopped sipping syrup, I was taking diet pills, I was running 5 miles a day. I was eating right. I tried everything but none of that worked. I think that was a result of all the years of sipping syrup and taking vicodins and xanax, my whole metabolism was just gone out the window. I really had no other choice, no other option. And this is what really got me, the doctor told me when you’re 50 pounds overweight it takes 15 years off your life so I was 120 pounds overweight…I was 320.”

Paul Wall looks great now, and glad he’ll be in great condition for his new album “Heart of a Champion” which drops July 13. 7/13 is also, ironically enough, Houston’s area code: