Rap star Lil’ Scrappy, was hospitalized in Atlanta yesterday after suffering a nasty asthma attack. Scrappy says, “I damn near died … if it weren’t for my driver, mom, and rap artist I would have been dead.”

 
The 28-year-old says he had been drinking pretty hard Monday night, and when he woke up Tuesday morning, he could barely breath and couldn’t talk — “I felt like I was dying.”

 
Fortunately, Scrappy’s people rushed him to Emory University Hospital, where he was treated and released. Scrappy says he now owns a “breathing machine”  and tells us, “I will never leave anywhere without it again.”