12 Artists Who Have Chosen Sobriety

28 Dec 12 Artists Who Have Chosen Sobriety

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. It’s traumatic for myself and for my family. I’ve had three relapses in the sober rappers last six years. The amount of pain and damage that I can do very quickly in losing the trust of others happens instantaneously. He needed to leave Detroit, and he found an opportunity, moving to Austin, Texas.

I’ve always been critical of my body. Then I saw what it was capable of

• During the gap between his 2014 debut, Cilvia Demo, and 2016’s The Sun’s Tirade, Isaiah Rashad was dealing with an addiction to pills and alcohol.
• I don’t care if I’m only by myself, I don’t walk around my house in sweatpants.
• They gather to participate in social activities such as parties, dances, and meeting in cafes, tea salons, yoga and dance studios.

Think Florida shuffleboard fun, but with Brooklyn DJs, food trucks and board games too. It costs $40 an hour to play and everybody gets a complimentary lesson. They offer non-alcoholic beverages in their packages as well as boozier options. Does the intensity of the tabloids’ attention have something to do with the tables-have-been-turned aspect of your story? It’s fascinating to people that I was this woman who ferociously talked about celebrities.

Jason Isbell

• In July of 2019, Elton John shared a photo to social media of his Alcoholics Anonymous sobriety coin, announcing in the caption he’s been sober for the last 29 years.
• I’m such a control freak it’s very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
• It costs $40 an hour to play and everybody gets a complimentary lesson.
• I will not have people talk badly.
• Then he noted that his “addictive personality” is what could potentially lead to his downfall.

Royce Da 5’9”, Eminem’s fellow Bad Meets Evil partner and former Slaughterhouse signee, went through his own struggles with alcoholism. The Detroit lyricist has rapped about his addiction and recovery in his music. Other rappers have also sided with sobriety, too. Back in 2020, during an interview with Converse for their Creative All Star Series, Tyler, The Creator shared that he’s never been interested in drinking, though he’s tried weed twice.

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We are over-worked and underpaid millennials and we need to let off steam. But as we find ourselves crawling to yet another Sunday brunch, raging hangover in full swing, we might start to hear people say phrases like “booze fast” or “dry month” and they may even start to sound appealing. I know that you were living in a sober house5 at some point when everything was hitting the fan with your marriage. Was that because you’d fallen off the wagon or because you were worried you might fall off the wagon? I was concerned based on what was going on around me.

However, not all musicians drink alcohol. I quickly watched my life fall apart within the first year of using drugs and alcohol, but it wasn’t until years later that I hit a rock bottom and ended up a place where I could get some help. I took 12 shots of vodka by myself. I ended up on a bus downtown, then in a McDonald’s, where I threw up in a trash can and had to run from the cops.

• But there are plenty of rappers who find that life is better without substances.
• He is celebrated as one of the most innovative hip-hop artists of our generation.
• Many rappers, like Juicy J or Lil Wayne, have made it clear in their music that they love getting fucked up.
• Not even about when you would have discussions on the radio insinuating which rappers you thought were in the closet?
• It allows other people to share openly and honestly.
• A life-long musician, a former promoter, and a vinyl enthusiast, he loves digging into the stories behind the great artists of our time.

Danny Brown

Young people are dying without ever knowing that there was actually a place you could get help — in halls and basements in churches, in buildings all over the world, where you can go and get relief, for free. There’s this false notion that musicians are at their best when they are using a ton of drugs — that’s how they channel the spirit. In July of 2019, Elton John shared a photo to social media of his Alcoholics Anonymous sobriety coin, announcing in the caption he’s been sober for the last 29 years.

After becoming sober, Eminem reemerged with Recovery, his incredibly successful seventh album chronicling his journey to sobriety. It was a deeply personal album that separated him from his Slim Shady alter ego. It made for his most mature and thoughtful album. On the hit single “Not Afraid,” Eminem raps, “It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me.” The hip hop icon celebrated his 15th year of sobriety earlier this year.

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• I once smoked with Chiddy Bang in college and it was one of the best days of my life; I’ll always love Chiddy Bang because of it.
• “But I’m surrounded by crackheads.”
• In an interview with Fox News, Budden spoke about the dangers he’s experienced with the party-popular drug.
• Thursday, as we all know, is the real start to the weekend and getting trashed with your squad on Friday is the norm.

When I was about 25 years old, I was paying bills with my music, but just barely. Any sort of momentum I had locally as a musician just stopped. I was drinking excessively and smoking a ton of weed. I had kind of lost the will to live at that point. It got so bad for roots rocker Jason Isbell that his wife, manager, and musician Ryan Adams initiated an intervention for his health and safety. He checked into a rehab program in Nashville.