In 2006, Scott Storch was a pretty successful producer and basically a household name. Having worked on hits for the biggest artists in the game including Beyonce, 50 Cent, T.I., Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Nas, Snoop Dogg and many more, his bank account was pretty loaded! But he recently revealed to MTV News how he basically threw away over $30 million in less than a year.

To make a long story short, he got addicted to drugs and stopped caring about his career. His manager Derek Jackson, who has known Storch on a personal level for nearly 20 years says his abrupt rise and fall was “historical.”

“[It was] unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Jackson told MTV News. “Historical! It was historical without question. … Honestly, about three years ago, he got really shady. And that’s the best term I could use. He went from what his normal vices were to suddenly becoming a person who was infatuated with the drug, and I saw it constantly.”