But with this recommitment to recovery, he’s once again found that music comes more easily. This time, his now-wife’s first pregnancy was what prompted him to recommit to his recovery. Though Macklemore relapsed in 20, he has now been continuously sober for over six years. “ That’s the most important thing in this world is being of service to other people getting outside of your f*cking head. He also says Alcoholics Anonymous taught him the power of sober community and being of service. In 2008, at age 25, he had a stay at addiction treatment that he says saved his life. “ I went for years like, ‘Why can I not f*cking stop? Why can I not drink and smoke like my friends? Why when I wake up, that’s the first thing I’m thinking about and I have to go get and other people can just do it on the weekend or three nights a week?'” They might feel it’s unfair that they don’t “get” to use substances like their friends. They might wonder if they’ve been drinking or using long enough to even know. He says he understands firsthand how younger people might struggle with accepting that they have an addiction. He wrote this way through his teens and some of his 20’s. He would get sober for a month in order to write music, go back to using substances and not writing at all, then get sober for another month to write more music. Macklemore has been making music since about the age he started drinking, but he knew he couldn’t write unless he was sober. Throughout his freshman year of high school, he skipped school to drink and smoke weed. He drank alone -stealing from his parents’ liquor cabinet-and had about 12 shots. The first time rapper Macklemore drank, he was 13 or 14.
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