Y’all can smoke around me all day long for six months straight and I’m not gonna touch it. As reported by the New York Times, the company showed a net loss of $66 million on revenues of $21.5 million and lost $79 million the previous quarter. It wasn’t until 2004 that Dre’s Chronic “model,” received a refresh via New York City through The Diplomats’ flamboyant man in pink, Cam’ron, and his 2004 album Purple Haze. Weird question but I’ve been really confused upset and ashamed because I feel like I’m somehow doing something wrong for doing the right thing. I know that doesn’t make much sense but I’m really thinking about this constantly.
Here’s a List of Rappers That Are Proud to Be Sober
- Cee-Lo stopped smoking around the late 1990s and has remained sober ever since.
- In a recent interview with MTV, the platinum-selling rapper revealed he developed a drinking problem at the age of thirteen.
- This one is surprising because Kid Cudi has such an associating with smoking cannabis.
- Isaiah Rashad’s alcoholism continued after The Sun’s Tirade, resulting in an even longer gap between albums before eventually quitting drinking and smoking in 2019.
Who doesn’t remember rolling up one while listening to some Odd Future? Tyler remains quite straight edge, and he claimed that it was because of one bad experience with an edible, which left him crying. Granted, he doesn’t seem to be against anyone else using it; it just isn’t for him. But there are many people who do not celebrate the good times by getting drunk or high and this includes a rappers who don’t smoke or drink few rappers, believe it or not. So if you are out and about abusing your brain cells and liver, you are most likely to never see these rappers up in the mix joining in on the debauchery.
Sober Rappers Who Don’t Drink Or Do Drugs
It’s easy to assume that Lecrae leads a straight-edge lifestyle because he’s a Christian rapper. «I tried pretty much every drug there was to try,» he explained to «Complex.» Lecrae left that lifestyle behind and now refrains from drugs and alcohol. 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.
Sober Rappers Who Don’t Drink or Do Drugs
Try this list of famous straight edge celebrities (sometimes spelled «straightedge») and notable people. For the most part, they are people who abstain from every vice that other people indulge in. Straight edge (or sXe) is a subculture and subgenre of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs. While there are many famous people who don’t drink alcohol there are many less celebrities who are completely straight edge.
- I didn’t see a problem with the fact that I just couldn’t get up and walk sometimes.” Hopefully Budden can continue to make strides without the use of any drug.
- A former drug dealer, 50 Cent is sufficiently knowledgeable about the adverse effects of drug abuse.
- Dot’s dad gave him advice that would change his lifestyle.
- Lupe Fiasco has always been a passionate artist, but he has also had a long battle with substance abuse.
There have been many debates as to whether or not cannabis is addictive. Some say it’s not addictive whatsoever, and others say that it has a habitual addiction, but not as much of a chemical addiction as harder drugs. Cannabis has not had as much research done on it as it should, and we’re not here to answer whether or not it is addictive. This Chicago born and raised rapper is one of the few artists that has not only represented the genre of hip-hop in a positive light, but has been a model of consistency in both his artform and personal life.
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According to his own social media posts Ice-T is pretty much – if not entirely – sober. In a 2022 interview with Self, he discussed how avoiding overworking, limiting his use of social media, and feeling inspired and motivated by his daughter help him to stay clean. Like many, the artist struggled during the Covid pandemic, and during lockdown he relapsed. However, he cleaned up, and now works with CLEAN Cause – a sparkling yerba mate brand, who donate towards supporting addiction recovery. One of Kendrick Lamar’s first big hits, ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’ addressed some of his experiences with alcohol and his feelings towards it. 50 Cent may have briefly dealt drugs as a youth, but he has always refrained from using them himself.
«Everybody else can do what they want, but that stuff isn’t for me. I’ve been drunk nine times in my life, and I ate some weed brownies once and passed out in a bathroom.» Well, apparently it was a bad experience with a weed brownie that ruined it for him. His high energy, colorful personality and fan demographic (who indulges in drugs quite heavily) doesn’t stop him from speaking on his commitment to the straight edge lifestyle.
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. 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. They’re the faces of BlazeNow, an app specializing in weed location.
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«I don’t do drugs. Period.» Joe Budden proclaimed in a 2013 interview with ThisIs50.com. «Some people can function with drugs, I’m just dysfunctional and self-destructive,» the Slaughterhouse rapper explained. Smoking weed and Hip-Hop have long been intrinsically tied.