A refreshingly honest approach to sobriety, this chirpy pop number finds frontman Matty Healy personifying his past heroin addiction, and treating the drug like a long lost lover. Sobriety might not be easy (and Matty has been quick to point out he’s not completely sober by any means), but sometimes it’s okay to admit you miss your former crutch. Macklemore sober rappers is the new creative director for CLEAN Cause Sparkling Yerba Mate, a beverage company with a mission to support people in recovery. The partnership comes at a time when alcohol use is rising and overdose deaths are at an all-time high. CLEAN Cause donates 50% of its net profits to help people in recovery, a cause the rapper is passionate about.

• For Recovery Month, All Sober spoke to 11 musicians who have shaped their genres, from metal to glam to new wave.
• The gift of desperation led me through the doors of Narcotics Anonymous and out of the darkness of addiction on Oct. 18, 1988.
• Despite the popularity of drugs in hip-hop culture, not every rapper partakes in popping mollys or getting fried.
• Like Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples has avoided taking drugs and drinking alcohol.
• It wasn’t until January of 1999 that I’d truly get to see Slim Shady consume his entire identity.
• And while the particulars they spoke of may be specific to each of them, the wider predicaments and decisions and quandaries and insecurities and dilemmas they spoke of are the same ones that confront us all.

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Artists including Kid Cudi, Big K.R.I.T., Joe Budden, and Macklemore have discussed the dangers of addiction, sharing their own experiences. Some of today’s biggest names like Lil Wayne and Kid Cudi, among others, have spent much of their careers looking for a way to cope with their own personal traumas. Many times, the glamorization of substance use is in their rhymes, peppering hooks with one-liners that speak to those internal struggles. But despite drug culture’s influence over music and trends, a number of the game’s favorite artists embrace sobriety.

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Slim, high on crack with a broken back, then sidesteps her attempted seduction with a violent outburst that culminates in the blood-curdling, hyper-realistic sounds of death by dick. Eminem has been sober since April of 2008. In his younger years, Eminem had a serious pill-popping addiction, something which is generally well-known if you’re a fan of the MC. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he confessed that he’d be taking up to 60 Valium and 30 Vicodin pills per day during the peak of his addiction. In 2007 he experienced a near-fatal methadone overdose. “The deeper I got into my addiction, the tighter the lid got on my creativity,” Eminem told New York Times in 2009.

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I’m grateful that I’m comfortable in my own skin. That I’m a better husband, dad, grandpa and friend. My sober life has been my best life — I’m so grateful for that. Anybody out there struggling, there’s this other life that’s available, the sober life, and it will be your best life. My name is Shannon Larkin and I am a musician — been the drummer with Godsmack for 20 years, toured the world and back again. The problem is, most of that time I don’t quite remember, as I was an alcoholic who blacked out too many times to list or was just so clouded and out of it, that it’s mostly a blur.

The Smart Party is the original alcohol free meetup group. The group offers events for those committed to an alcohol free lifestyle. They gather to participate in social activities such as parties, dances, and meeting in cafes, tea salons, yoga and dance studios. They are quick to point out that this is not a sobriety or recovery group, but open to all adults over 21 who don’t require liquid drugs in order to enjoy life. Their goal is to provide society with an exciting, upbeat alternative to the bar scene.

• In a novel, AI-assisted video released Tuesday, Eminem engages in a 12-minute verbal showdown with his Slim Shady persona — and gets the best of his old alter ego.
• Who will you find on this rappers who are sober list?
• The “Lose Yourself” rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, took to Instagram on Tuesday to give his followers an update on his sobriety, sharing a picture of an Alcoholics Anonymous coin acknowledging he’s been sober for 12 years.
• Dre quit smoking a year or two after Outkast’s debut album, Southernplayalisticadillamuzik.
• Macklemore has struggled with remaining sober his whole life.

He raps about drug use to relate to a specific market but says in his personal life it’s really not for him. Kid Cudi has been in the media quite a bit lately after recently entering rehab to treat depression and suicidal thoughts. He was previously very vocal about his marijuana use but decided to get addiction treatment, change his lifestyle and dedicate himself to sober living.

• Joe Budden is best known for his work with hip-hop group Slaughterhouse.
• As my song “Amazing” says, “With the blink of an eye you finally see the light.” My journey continues one day at a time.
• Some created the work that made them first or best known before they were sober; some have done so since.
• Admitting that you have a problem is a huge issue.
• Notably, drug usage has troubled the career of Glo Gang boss Chief Keef.

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