The D.O.C.
The famed MC and unparalleled ghostwriter was involved in a near-fatal car accident in November 1989. “He fought the medics when they tried to insert a breathing tube into his trachea, causing it to scar his larynx,” the Dallas Observer reported. As a result, the voice Hip-Hop lovers hear on D.O.C.’s 1989 solo debut, No One Can Do It Better, would never be the same.