Stay Sober: Rappers Who Don’t Smoke Or Drink

I always believed 50 to be an authentic artist, especially at the beginning of his career, but apparently his desire to sell records and brand loyalty trumps everything. After all, the motto was get rich or die trying, not get rich but always be completely honest. Remarkably, EFFEN Vodka partnered with a sober 50 several years ago in a paid endorsement deal, which finds the rapper pimping their product on social media. In that same piece, Em is quoted as saying, “I had to regain motor skills, I had to regain talking skills.” His drug use affected him so severely that he had to relearn how to talk and how to rap. Relearn he did, but as much as we all might want a new, incredible Eminem album, I try to mostly just stay thankful that he’s still alive.

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Kay struggled with drinking and drugs after Cole’s stepfather, Edward, left in 2003 (K.O.D.’s only guest features come from his alter ego, Kill Edward, inspired by his stepfather). She eventually got clean and sober, but Cole’s still wary of discussing her in interviews. Like Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples has avoided taking drugs and drinking alcohol. The Long Beach, California rapper’s decision to stay sober stems from the traumatic events he witnessed during his childhood.

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Some time later, on 1 January 1997, he called me and we both sort of apologised to each other in our roundabout way he laughs and since then we’ve done shows together and hung out. “If you drink, you can’t even remember if it’s a good show or not — and that’s probably for the best, because it would have been rubbish because I’d have been drunk and not making any sense.” Superstar DJ Calvin Harris hasn’t touch drink for over eight years, after hitting the bottle quite heavily in his early career. Answering a question from a fan on his Twitter, Calvin said that drinking was “clearly affecting” his performances, but that now his shows were “a million times better.” Last year, Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine revealed in a Spotify Original podcast, The Way We Are with Munroe Bergdorf that she had been sober for eight years.

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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. Since then, he’s been open about drug and alcohol use while with the band Drive-By Truckers. Arceneaux and Petrou have always been quite secretive when it comes to their personal lives.

There were serious discussions, which fell through, but we still talk about it. He kicked back with King of the Hill, so we released Ice Cube Killa to DJs only. I don’t think he took it as seriously as us in terms of what this shit can turn into, but prior to that we’d been friends and we had a lot of mutual friends who wanted us to mend the relationship.

  • Having started drinking at just 16, the Formula One driver, now 38, has embraced a sober curious lifestyle after accepting how debilitating his hangovers had become.
  • While each family member blames the substance user, the real problem lies in the breakdown of the family.
  • “I’m in a financial place where I can enable it myself, and I don’t ever want to be that guy,” he affirmed.
  • “I don’t want to wake up feeling groggy. I want to wake up feeling ready.”

Sometimes taking a break allows people to realise they don’t miss alcohol so much after all. “These are pictures from huge moments in life where my eyes just look… gone. Some are from real work shoots, some just beach days with the family,” she added. “While I honestly STILL don’t know if I’ll never have a drink again, I do know I never want Drug rehabilitation to be that way again. And for now, none is best. I’ll let the bad dreams come up and try to sort them out in therapy, without booze.” “I was sick of waking up with a dry throat, sick of feeling bloated and sick of the decisions I make on it,” he said, also sharing that drink sometimes made him feel “numb.” One year into being sober, we think it’s working out pretty well. However, Tom admitted that after two months, he was still “really struggling” and that it was a challenge for him to attend work and social events and not have a drink.

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Additionally, he elaborated that his father was addicted to drugs and did not want to follow the same path. The song was written in the aftermath of Benjamin’s breakup with Badu and was a fictionalized account of the disintegration of their relationship. In 2002, Outkast released a greatest hits album, Big Boi and Dre Present… OutKast, which contained three new tracks, one of which, “The Whole World”, won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Later that year, Benjamin participated in the Dungeon Family group album, which saw some prominent Atlanta-based hip-hop groups sober rappers combine into a supergroup.

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