Christoper “Kid” Reid, half of the hip-hop duo Kid ‘n Play, had life-saving heart surgery last year after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure. “Over the last year or so, [I] maybe just starting feeling more fatigued than before, shortness of breath, sleeping more than normal. I think sometimes you chalk it up to, ‘I’m getting older, the road is harsh, doing the old kick step’... A lot of people are walking around with heart disease because they don’t go to the doctor. And you know, traditionally, people of color, we don’t go. We don’t go for a lot of reasons. Sometimes we don’t go because we don’t have insurance. A lot of times we don’t go because we don’t want the bad news or we too busy just hustling trying to make it from day to day and we feel we don’t got time or we’ll get over it. Well, you might not. So I’m urging all of my fans, all of your loved ones to get checked out.” (via "Good Morning America") variety.com/2026/film/news/k…