The singer, whose legal name is Albert Joseph Brown III, starts the message by thanking his supporters and higher power for seeing him through his various health struggles.

“Let me start with All Praise Due to Allah. Thank you for granting me life, this opportunity, and this platform to share my journey with those who are genuinely invested with care and concern for my health and wellbeing. I want to send a personal and sincere thank you to all of you who sent prayers, well wishes and positive energy my way. I felt each and every one of them!” he wrote.

The singer referred to his health issues as a “medical roller coaster” that has been a completely “life-changing experience.”

The 54-year-old then broke down what happened and when.

“In early to mid-July, I was wrapping up a lunch meeting and headed back to the studio to continue working on a project. As I sat down in front of the computer, I began to lose feeling on the entire left side of my body. I fell over. Fortunately, my phone was within reach, and I was able to call for assistance. I only remember sitting in the ER in a wheelchair and my brother, DJ Eddie F, standing next to me speaking with security,” he wrote.

Brown didn’t learn what happened until months later.

“I had multiple surgeries covering everything from repairing a hematoma/hernia to an organ transplant. I was also placed on dialysis, accumulated excessive fluid in my lungs, [had] fungal pneumonia, became septic, had lymph nodes removed, multiple blood transfusions, was intubated and placed on a ventilator due to my oxygen dropping down to 20%. All mind boggling at the least. It just doesn’t jell,” he continued.

Brown shared that for a while, doctors didn’t think he was going to make it.

“Being heavily sedated, asleep, and in a coma during a portion of my hospitalization, to learning that the amazing medical staff were fully prepared to send me to hospice due to the severity of my condition was unbelievable,” he wrote. “Doctors said it just didn’t look as if I’d make it through with everything going on simultaneously.”

But his family and friends believed he was strong enough to prevail.

“My brother DJ Eddie F, my primary physician Dr. K, Civil Rights icon Rev. Al Sharpton, and Rachel Noerdlinger were firm advocates, stating, ‘No hospice, he’s strong enough to survive this medical adversity,'” he wrote.

The dad of three also got candid about how scary it’s been for him, and that his belief in a higher power has helped keep him positive. He also took accountability for the role he played in the medical emergency.

“To be completely transparent, everything I’ve gone through is self-perpetuated or otherwise has had me shook to the core but my faith and [belief] in The Most High has put me in check for a greater life plan moving forward with what He has in store. It has been ordained that I thrive within this second gift of life,” he wrote.

Brown concluded by writing, “Being accountable to myself to achieve consistent health and wellness moving forward is on ME! The responsibility, the will to stay alive, be a better human being, father, brother, son, activist, and man is on ME! What I seek to accomplish and conquer in the future will be monumental, God willing.”