Arturo Molina, Jr., who’s better known to the Hip Hop community and music fans as Kid Frost, has been diagnosed with cancer and has been documenting his battle with the deadly disease on his Instagram account.

The 51 year old West Coast and Latino rap pioneer has made it known that the cancer is diabetes-related, it is still unclear as to what type of cancer Frost has been diagnosed with.

In one of his IG posts, Frost tells his followers,

“You can say what you want to say if you have a family member or know somebody who has gone through anything like this then don’t avoid or dodge a potential bullet go get checked! One thing I want to do is educated little bit from my experience and now we’re about to go into the battle royale this is no joke. I’m hurting inside for wasting so much time and now as I get older and have a real strong desire to live for these babies and the kids the devil want to hand me a monkey wrench.
Diabetes is not what’s going to take me under it’s going to be the ailments and the kicker is from having diabetes you won’t be able to heal from any other diseases like cancer and such…I know a lot of the s— right now kid frost Diabetes Awareness foundation wake up call like I said go get checked it takes nothing if you haven’t been to the doctor in a while to have a physical and go check yourself out.”

Frost is best known for his single “La Raza” and for being one of the first artists signed to Eazy E‘s Ruthless Records.