Life in Quarantine

February 25, 2010 12:33 PM

Due to a serious form of tuberculosis which he contracted on a trip to South America Christiaan Van Vuuren (aka Fully Sick Rapper) has been quarantined in a Australian hospital room since January 18th. "This is starting to take it's toll on my mental stability, and this song is about the impact (or lack thereof) it has had so far."

Other videos he has produced while in hospital:

F You, I'm a Ukelele.

Leila, Leila, you're so much hotter than me.

I'm not sick, but I'm sick sick.

posted by ericb (14 comments total)

He was let out of quarantine on January 2nd. but had to return on January 28th. where he remains.
posted by ericb at 12:37 PM on February 25, 2010

Apparently he was admitted and put in quarantine last December. They let him out on January 2nd. The symptoms returned, as it was a more virulent form of TB than originally diagnosed. They put him back in quarantine on January 28th. where he remains. I garner this from his notes on the videos and from the videos themselves.
posted by ericb at 1:15 PM on February 25, 2010

If & when they eventually release him, he should probably change his stage name.
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:07 PM on February 25, 2010

UbuRoivas: "If & when they eventually release him, he should probably change his stage name."

MC Much Better Now, Really
posted by idiopath at 2:16 PM on February 25, 2010

I'm confused about the dates. Jan 18? Jan 2? Jan 28?

We use Her Majesty's Non-Chronological Time here in Australia, yank.
posted by turgid dahlia at 2:22 PM on February 25, 2010 [3 favorites]

Where every weekend is a holiday long weekend, if you want it to be.
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:52 PM on February 25, 2010

Where every weekend is a holiday long weekend, if you want it to be.
If you pull a sickie?
posted by GeckoDundee at 3:14 PM on February 25, 2010

UbuRoivas: "If & when they eventually release him, he should probably change his stage name."

MC Much Better Now, Really

There was a rapper called "Lil' 1/2 Dead", who died. Wikipedia had to send me a notice to stop changing all instances of his name to "Lil' 1/2 Dead, who is now fully dead".
posted by DecemberBoy at 3:24 PM on February 25, 2010 [9 favorites]

It's not a sickie. It's a non-chronological Empire Day.
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:47 PM on February 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

Vive la...uh...the Queen!
posted by turgid dahlia at 4:28 PM on February 25, 2010

Have we learned nothing from C-Murder?
posted by drjimmy11 at 6:06 PM on February 25, 2010

Have we learned nothing from C-Murder?

He goes by "C-Miller" now, comedically enough, since he realized that still calling yourself "C-Murder" while awaiting trial for murder was pretty dumb.
posted by DecemberBoy at 10:11 PM on February 25, 2010

His videos are an interesting window into what its like to be bored out of your mind in a hospital
posted by zia at 12:44 PM on February 26, 2010

For correctness' sake, it was actually Lil' 1/2 Dead's brother, Big 1/2 Dead, who died. And it was a certain instance of the sentence "his brother Big 1/2 Dead, now deceased" or something like that that I kept changing to "fully dead". I generally frown on messing with Wikipedia, but it wasn't like I was subtly altering mathematical formulae (which people do, just to prove some imaginary point about Wikipedia) or something.
posted by DecemberBoy at 2:09 PM on February 26, 2010