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Eminem celebrated 10 years of sobriety yesterday
- Thread starter Saya
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Much love and respect. I absolutely bow down before anyone who finds the strength to walk that extremely difficult path and feel so fortunate I haven't gone down the bottle myself given my own personal struggles in life.
I know so many people who can't quit drinking or smoking, the sheer amount of willpower it requires to fight addiction is astonishing. Congratulations.
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Him and Kid Cudi should go back on the drugs if they care about their musical quality.
Every day all day is what it takes. I have mad respect for all addicts who will themselves to withstand their urges to imbibe.
I know you thought this would be edgy but it's disgusting and you should feel ashamed.
Cudi been absolutely useless on the mic and on the boards since he quit smoking weed, thats a fact.
Em has nose dived in quality over the years too, less so than Cudi sure.
While I do wish Eminem would actually put more effort into his music today instead of spewing the same stuff over an over, I wouldn't want him to resort back to his pills/drugs/alcohol and reconnect with his demons in order to produce a decent album. He would really be sacrificing himself for his art and that's not fair to his family/people that matter to him. We could have been living in an alternate dimension where Eminem did OD'd on pills back in 2007 so congratulations to him on being 10 years sober.
His health is way more important than your taste in his music.
Agreed. Congrats to him making it 10 years. Im barely a year off cigarettes and its hard as all hell.
Em is also 45 years old and has a net worth of $190 million. More importantly, Em should continue to stay sober if he cares about his daughter and quality of life.
Pretty sure that's typical of many an artist who's been on the scene for a while. It's not related to the drugs.
I do agree Eminem on drugs did play a roll in some of his better albums SSLP, MMLP and TES, but another thing was his age. I think he would most likely sound ridiculous in his 40s rapping about his same type of topics. The best thing he can do now is stay healthy and maybe continue to be more political in the music he releases.
Damn. A year? Congrats. I know people who keep trying to quit and can't make it a week.
Well, Revival does have Framed.
But, yeah, I think it would've been weird if half of his modern albums consisted from stuff like Amityville and Fack.
Thanks! Biggest problem is the music I'm still listening to, but I can't stop with that. :P
Wish he went back to smoking weed, health comes first but you can definitely tell his work benefited from a elevated mind state. Then again that could be said for a lot of artist.
Outside of the obvious issues with this post, Kid Cudi's newest album is one of his best. Eminem was better before yes I'll give you that but come on lol. He'd be dead a long time ago if he didn't stop.
I know the feeling. Had my 6 months yesterday and certain music can be a trigger for me, but I don't want to cut that out of my life yet cause I love it and it also helps me with so many other things.
And for those talking about Em's recent music, there is the possibility that you are correct that substances helped his music (I still don't think I've regained my full tenacity at work yet) but the man has a family and addiction will kill you if you don't get help. Additionally to those criticising him, why don't you get off your ass and make some music you like better instead of waiting on an addict to do it for you.
Congratsto you, too!
For what it's worth I'm still listening to that stuff years later and mostly managed to seperate it from my habits back then. Hopefully you'll manage to as well.
I think he should probably care about his life and seeing his daughter and her future kids more.
He talks about it in a few of his more recent songs, he literally almost OD'd. They found him in the bathroom on the floor and he spent time in the hospital.
It's honestly staggering that you don't understand why people called you out on that post.
So fucking what? You enjoying their music is not so important it's worth them sacrificing their health and mentality for. It's psychopathic to wish them to slow kill themselves just so you can enjoy their music better.
Good for him, good for the people around him, and people who can be inspired by him too.
1) Don't invoke "Facts," when you have no factual proof that their drug or alcohol use corresponds at all to their music. Correlation is not causation.
2) Almost nobody was arguing the irrelevant point about the quality of their music, but rather, that you're an asshole for prioritizing how much you enjoy their music over their mental and physical health.
1) Don't invoke "Facts," when you have no factual proof that their drug or alcohol use corresponds at all to their music. Correlation is not causation.
2) Almost nobody was arguing the irrelevant point about the quality of their music, but rather, that you're an asshole for prioritizing how much you enjoy their music over their mental and physical health.
Cool, good thing this is about a man celebrating his sobriety and being healthy, rather than on the verge of death as Eminem was.
I thought Era was above this trash?