. ♪ >> each step, 31-year-old artist mike posner took on his journey was a climb. ♪ >> he experiencedand emotional battle of wills. >> they are not one morning, that my body said, get up and walk, dude. zero times. you go do something hard, you finish it no matter what, you are going to find beauty in yourself. >> what did you find? >> i'm a tough son of a gun. ♪ >> not even rattlesnake bite, miles from the nearest town in colorado could keep him down. >> that venom and poison started to go through my body. and remember the end of looney tunes and the circle gets smaller and they say, that's all folks. >> six days in the hospital, somehow, he stayed positive through it all. >> that day was fun. man, i rode in the helicopter, they put me in icu, nice air conditioning and a nice bed. >> picking up where he left off, he kept going and growing, his soul leading the way. ♪ >> no drugs. that's a shift from his monster ♪ t, released in 2015.- >> i wanted everybody to think i was cool. i had to battle that. everyone liked me. dude, it doesn't matter. his collaborator, took his own life last y