Four years after Ray J sent <\/b>\u00a0shockwaves through the news cycle after reports he had been hospitalized due to a severe case of pneumonia, the actor-singer is back atop headlines again after being admitted to a Nevada medical facility for battling a similar diagnosis.<\/p>\n
In a story first broken by TMZ on Wednesday (January 7<\/strong>), it\u2019s been revealed Ray entered a Las Vegas hospital on Tuesday (January 6<\/strong>) after reports of severe chest pains seemingly stemming from another battle with pneumonia.<\/p>\n According to a source close to the 44-year-old (born Willie Ray Norwood Jr.<\/strong>), he remains in the facility where he has received X-rays and an echocardiogram. The results of those tests have not been made available to the public at the time of this report.<\/p>\n At writing, Ray, his superstar sister Brandy<\/strong>, nor his reality TV show ex-wife Princess Love<\/strong> has made a public statements about his hospitalization.<\/p>\n The news of his illness comes just weeks after he was released from jail after appearing to pull a gun on Love \u00a0while streaming live on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four years after Ray J sent \u00a0shockwaves through the news cycle after reports he had been hospitalized due to a severe case of pneumonia, the actor-singer is back atop headlines again after being admitted to a Nevada medical facility for battling a similar diagnosis. In a story first broken by TMZ on Wednesday (January 7), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}