Over the years, many rappers have sought help in an effort to deal with their addictions. Also, some artists proudly speak out against the current drug obsession in Hip Hop. Some of these artists have never done drugs in their life, while others choose to abstain from smoking or drinking because of near-death experiences they’ve had.

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• Hart, who stars in the video, walks over and sits down; Cole is directing and tells him what to do.
• Between A$AP Rocky writing songs about “LSD” to The Weeknd fulfilling more prescriptions than a CVS to rappers legally making money off weed, drug rap is at an all-time high (pun intended, get used to it).
• For Recovery Month, All Sober spoke to 11 musicians who have shaped their genres, from metal to glam to new wave.
• After almost dying from a drug overdose, the rapper decided to clean up his act.
• To anyone who’s had even a mild exposure to rap songs, you’ve probably found the music replete with drug references.

In his past, Budden has struggled with an addiction to MDMA. In an interview with Fox News, Budden spoke about the dangers he’s experienced with the party-popular drug. Kid Cudi had a difficult upbringing that ultimately made him turn to drugs. He got increasingly into substance abuse the older he got, and it got worse the more prominent he became. The rapper had always dealt with anxiety and depression, but he began to sink deeper into those waters as time passed. When it got so bad that he started subconsciously plotting his death, he knew something had to change.

• That did not, however, stop Pharrell from famously launched a women-focused liquer, Qream, in 2011.
• In an interview with Fox News, Budden spoke about the dangers he’s experienced with the party-popular drug.
• Though some listeners may disagree, these artists have continually shown that they’re more than capable of making quality music without the enhancement of drugs.

Tyler, the Creator

Many artists partake sober rappers in smoking marijuana for the euphoria, some artists believe it enhances their ability to write a song, record, even perform. However, not all artists need to spark the ‘bud’ to produce fire vocals on the beat. Like many, the artist struggled during the Covid pandemic, and during lockdown he relapsed.

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Eventually he developed a serious pill habit Valium and 30 Vicodin pills per day — that culminated in a near-fatal methadone overdose in 2007. Some hew closely to the language of recovery programs; some don’t. This is a story about sober musicians—about the life that has led them here, and about the life that they live now—but there is no single story here. 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 Oxford House 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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• After nearly dying from an overdose in 2007, the influential rapper has now been sober for nearly fifteen years at the time of writing.
• Much like the athletes whom he seeks to emulate, Cole becomes a vicarious bearer of hope.
• It was a deeply personal album that separated him from his Slim Shady alter ego.
• As a result of the toll that addiction can take on an individual, many rappers have become sober and are inspiring others to do so as well.

Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, seeing he was in danger of drugs taking over his life, checked himself into rehab and has been sober ever since. His rehab also led to him founding the side project, Mad Season. He was also recently honored for his recovery work in Seattle.

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While recording Quaranta at his Bruiser Brigade studio in Detroit, he felt an unshakable sense of foreboding. “Making this album, I didn’t know if I was gonna get a chance to make another one,” he says. It’s one thing to play up drug use as part of the creation of a musical persona (see The Weeknd), but it’s another to completely fake it for the sake of selling records and signing sponsorship deals. 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. Seeking purpose in early recovery, Annie Zimmerman rekindled an old fire with distance running — and found it carried her through some of her toughest trials in sober life.

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“I was really just thinking about my mortality a lot,” he says on a call with NPR. “I was in a dark place.” The album is pensive and desolate. He’s reckoning with all that he’s lost, and, after finally going sober, figuring out how to stay joyful while remaining present. “But when is the party going to be over? You can’t be 40-years-old and still in the club. The party don’t have to stop, but the party is gonna stop you.”