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Hip-Hop has turned 50 however a few of our most good MC’s are getting older backwards. Technique Man, Ludacris and extra share their health journeys with Males’s Well being.

Technique Man, however, made it clear that the train not solely superior his bodily however helped along with his psychological state. “It went from this childhood pleasure to this euphoric feeling of movie star to feeling insufficient and never ok,” he mentioned. “That’s the place the despair and stuff got here in. I didn’t even know I had been depressed since I used to be a teenager earlier than I began doing music and moved to Staten Island. A variety of PTSD I had by no means handled earlier than began resurfacing, however I didn’t know what it was then.”

The “Carry The Ache” rapper additionally admitted that getting energetic additionally improved his potential to relaxation. “My insomnia was fairly dangerous. I’m speaking a yr and a half, perhaps, not having nice sleeping habits. Looking for stuff to do in the course of the evening is loopy, particularly when you’ve gotten all these things inside your attain. PlayStations, books, and all that stuff, and none of that’s satisfying anymore. You simply end up up with all this power. I didn’t know what to do with myself. So after the eighth recreation of Name of Responsibility, I mentioned, ‘Let me see if the health club is open. I want to search out one thing. I want to interrupt this cycle, break this sample.’”

Ludacris pointed to longevity as his drive to be at all times be at his greatest. “Somebody would get of their 40s or 50s and that was a stigma—like, ‘Okay, you’re too previous to be doing music now,’” the Atlanta emcee mentioned. “However no one’s considering that Hip-Hop is just 50 years previous. We’re nonetheless within the midst of seeing how [Hip-Hop] is rising to a level, and so there’s no extra ‘You’re too previous.’ Pay attention, I like to age, as a result of I really feel like getting older is a privilege. The rationale I’m so joyful the place I’m at is as a result of I don’t have any resentments or any regrets. I’ve lived my life to the fullest. So when anybody remotely calls me OG, or anybody needs to throw across the phrase ‘previous’ sooner or later, I’m not going to get upset.”

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