But I do think musicians have something in them that lends itself to what I want to escape right now. For me, turning my will over to a power greater than myself. That is really the cornerstone of my recovery. And then continuing to just work it myself, holistically.
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I’ve had three relapses in the last six years. The amount of pain and damage that I can do very quickly in losing the trust of others happens instantaneously.
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- We have to discuss the over-incarceration of addicts and the over-prescription of America.
- I know a lot of people that struggle that are creative people.
- It was something that was in me from the very start.
- “If it wasn’t for my pops having the 10 or 12 racks thousand that it was when I first went to treatment when I was 25 and his ability to spend that on me, I’d be f—ing dead,” he told the activist host and fellow rapper Kweli, 45.
“If it wasn’t for my pops having the 10 or 12 racks thousand that it was when I first went to treatment when I was 25 and his ability to spend that on me, I’d be f—ing dead,” he told the activist host and fellow rapper Kweli, 45. “I wouldn’t be here right now. That’s not to be f—ing dramatic, that’s just what it is. I was about to die.” Macklemore—whose third studio album Ben comes out March 3—reflected on how his struggles have played a part in his music.
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For me — and with so many people who I know that are in recovery that are addicts — getting help is so important. Getting the tools and the resources that are out there and becoming an active member of the recovery community. There’s no other experience like one addict to another saying what they’re going through. There’s a connection that, “I’m understood.” This person knows exactly what I’m talking about.
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Without it, I don’t know if I would be here. For me, Kevin, what it has done is, it has given me, not only an outlet but rappers who are sober it has given me a benchmark. If I want to make music — the thing that I love the most — if I want to do that, then I have to be sober.
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If you can go to rehab, figure out a way to get in, to get it paid for, you can pay for it yourself. To have 30 days where you’re under their watch, where you’re eating food and sleeping in a bed. And just reminded of having a schedule. We get off track and forget to shower, and to eat, and to take care of ourselves.
