I woke up early and had energy and enthusiasm, but no place to put it. All of my friends were still sleeping off their hangovers by the time I’d had breakfast, read the paper and written an article. I decided to stop drinking four months ago to see how my life would shake down.
Another Perspective on Sobriety
And continue to look until you find what works for you. Click here for a list of regional and national resources. If we missed anything you’d like to add, write us in the comments. Syracuse native Post Malone has unveiled the tracklisting for his upcoming country album, and it features some big name guests. Musicians are set to pop up at locations in the city in a bid to bring their music to more people.
- The former Palmetto Playground, at the southern edge of Brooklyn Heights, where Mr. Yauch played basketball, was recently renamed Adam Yauch Park in honor of the rapper, who died of cancer last year.
- Syracuse native Post Malone has unveiled the tracklisting for his upcoming country album, and it features some big name guests.
- So it makes sense that Common lives a drug-free life.
- Artery can transform any space into a performance venue, be it a laundromat, park or even your own living room.
Kendrick Lamar
The world that recovery has led me to is beyond anything I ever could have imagined. I would never have had a career in music had I not been able to go to treatment. These aren’t grandiose thoughts, or for shock value. My dad was able to afford a treatment center. I know that a lot of Americans can’t, or they can’t afford to take the time off work.
- It is a disease of secrecy, shame and guilt.
- In fact, here is a list of performers that don’t drink at all, which which challenge society’s alcohol-soaked stereotypes of rock stars and famous singers.
- Artists including Kid Cudi, Big K.R.I.T., Joe Budden, and Macklemore have discussed the dangers of addiction, sharing their own experiences.
Jack White announces official release of new album, ‘No Name’
Some see these expectations as having played a part in what happened to them, though most ultimately see their decisions and actions as also—if not mainly—a matter of their own psychology and personality and predisposition. Some drank, some used drugs, some did more or less everything, and they did so to very different degrees. Some found themselves at the edge of the precipice, or worse; others simply re-routed from a path or trajectory that they came to see as unwise. Some were clean before the end of their teenage years; some only surfaced into sobriety much later in their lives. Some created the work that made them first or best known before they were sober; some have done so since. Some see significant correlations here; some don’t.
Tuesday’s “Face-Off” clip was released by Complex magazine in tandem with its new Eminem interview and cover feature. An hour later, he asked me if there was a McDonald’s nearby and we walked up Broadway to the Mickey D’s on the corner of Waverly Place for lunch. We sat in the front eating and catching up, enjoying the same anonymity we’d always known—just a couple of guys in baggy, sagging jeans with backpacks and beanies bullshitting. Until I started to notice over Em’s shoulder a gaggle of teenagers—mostly Black girls I’d ballpark as junior-high age—starting to assemble, staring at us and whispering. I guess I knew, in the abstract, that Em was becoming famous, but up until that point his Fat Beats notoriety had a perimeter that ended on the corner at Gray’s Papaya.
All of which can be heard on his latest, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce). And then there’s the intentionality of the pacing and sequencing; how he doles out narrative revelation with pointed parsimony, such that even Christopher sober rappers Nolan would tip his hat. The cacophony was deafening as the kids cornered our table, thrusting anything on their person at Em to autograph. Eyes wide, Em looked completely overwhelmed. All he’d ever wanted to be was a successful rapper.
- He points to writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Edgar Allan Poe and Lord Byron, known for espousing the use of mind-altering substances in their work.
- The Oscar winner works out regularly and eats healthfully.
- Speaking in third person, he captioned the post, “Toosii if you don’t smoke or drink how do you have fun?,” dismissing any notion of relying on substances to keep himself busy.
- This is a list of rappers who are sober and recovering from former addictions.
