The rise of Stitches provides a blueprint for modern-day hip-hop myth-making. Almost overnight, Katsabanis went from being a suburban Kendall kid known as “Lil Phill” to a bona fide gangsta rapper.

Although the “Brick In Yo Face” rapper did not admit to having Cancer, in as many words, he revealed that he had received bad new from his Doctors Yesterday, February 21. Stitches made the revelation ...