The co star in this music video is Mic DeVine. He wrote a song called "Way Down We Go". He dedicated it to his and Joyner's friend Dave who they lost to a OD. Ppl said "WDWG" was the inspiration for this song. Mic didn't have to force emotions to come out for this music video. He just allowed himself to feel that pain and loss.
@@micdivine9611 I have been directing ppl to you when I see reactions for Best For Me. I want to say thank you to you! WDWG should be just as well known as Best For Me is!! WDWG made me cry my eyes out! My daughter's dad lost his battle with addiction. He got some stuff that was laced with rat poison and he was IV using. So there was nothing that could be done. We hadn't been together for 4 yrs by then. I was 15yo when I got with him. I was with him for 12 yrs. When we had our daughter who was born with 5 heart defects...he didn't know how to deal with it so he chose drugs. Leaving me alone to take care of our daughter on my own. When he did show up he stole everything and tried to kill me on few occasions when I didn't let him take things. I didn't leave him because I didn't love him. I just loved my daughter more.. I was done letting my daughter see me be hit on so I left him as soon as I was able to. I knew it wasn't him. It was the drugs. But I had to put my daughter first. He passed a week after she had a heart procedure. He wasn't there for it. Or any of the other hospital stays or operations. I know he loved me and our daughter. He just couldn't beat it. His pregnant gf was there with their 2yo daughter when it happened. His gf was the one who got it for him. Four other ppl passed away that night from that guy's stuff. I had lost 6 family members within a yr n a half before he passed. So it was hard time for my daughter and I. Still is. We didn't get a chance to grieve before we lost another loved one!! I just pray for good news in the future for her health. Had scary times and more to come. Music helps me get thru thru each day. I pray for all of those struggling! Keep making music! Keep impacting lives! 💜💚
I never leave comments but I have to say thank you. I'm 20 years clean and recently lost my little brother to self ending due to drug addiction. I have fought with the guilt of "walking away" from him because it was bringing my memories of being addicted. Our last message to each other was not good and I felt with that message it pushed him over. In his own words he told me that I was the last one who hadn't givin up on him. After watching your reaction to this I really was able to let that guilt/burden go. So again thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Stay strong brother! Same happened to me with my little sister and my best friend only a few years apart. Its crazy how isolating it feels..Like we were the only ones who knows the pain and went through this. After some time passes, we realize that its happening everywhere to everyone and were actually survivors of the times. All we can do is live a better life for them...Keep them close in our memory and heart but use our pain as wisdom moving forward. I never leave comments either but losing a younger sibling is extremely rough...It doesn't get easier unfortunately, but you will learn so much. Keep an open mind, stay positive as much as you can and you will always stay clean and living your best life. Much love bro
From someone that was fighting addiction not that long ago and now over a year sober, I can say this song hits me deeply. If you're fighting addiction do not be afraid to get the help you need!
It’s the people you least expect to be heroes. The way Jelly Roll has taken to being a voice for help is amazing. I can’t name 3 of his songs, but I absolutely love the guy
I just got out of recovery. 52 days sober. Three of my rehab buddies have reached out and relapsed. One thing you learn about support in recovery..you have to put your oxygen mask first, then help the next person. However if they do not take the help, you pray they make it back. It's the sick cycle of addiction. If you are newly recovering addict, you have to send your friend who relapses to someone with long term sobriety who can offer tools and resources.
Joyner and Jelly are both in recovery and as someone who has gone in and out of sobriety, its stuff like this that keeps me going. Wasn't going to but this inspired me to hit a meeting today ✊️
This song speaks to my soul, my mother is struggling with addiction, and hearing joyners verse from the outside looking in is literally me. And then the switch up he did in the second verse, flipping the perspective, made me think that she feels that way towards me. I never try to preach to her, I just want my mama back…
This is painful..i used to chase my mother around various drug houses around the bay area in Oakland Cali thinking i could save her..many of days i would beat on doors knowing she was behind them but dudes with guns would run me off..i had no power at the age of 15 to protect her. Just typing this made me cry and im now the age of 48 and though i placed those memories in the back of my head never to be remembered this video placed me back in that time. Jelly Roll verse is literally what i had to do.This song is a gift and a curse. Shout out from west monroe la. I thought i had escaped those memories... but clearly i have not... via this song.
I feel this so much. I tried to help him get sober. Went to therapy sessions. Found docs to help him with his bipolar disorder/personality disorder. He hid the fact we were doing all these things to help but he was still using behind my back. He ended up in the hospital 2wks ago. He missed his vein and it got infected. He almost lost his arm. I told his mom he tested positive for meth in the hospital. He told her I was lying . He told everyone it was a spider bit. I lost my love. And family. Bc his family was like my family. He told me it's my fault we can't be together now bc I told the truth. We don't talk anymore.
When you love someone and have to let them go as not to enable them and for your own mental wellbeing it’s hard. The PTSD from the phone calls from the ER or the police makes hearing the phone ring and the dropping feeling in your stomach. The depression and anxiety from knowing you can’t help them till they are ready for the help. Hopefully before it’s too late. My daughter has been clean and sober for over a year now but our relationship is not the same. I don’t know if it ever will be but I hope in time it will be.
This was me and my brothers dynamic when i was addicted to pills and dope. Gets me choked up listening to this, thankfully i got clean about 5 years ago and we have a great relationship now
This song just touched my heart ...I was the man on the floor 15 years ago ...now I'm Joyner Lucas and talking to my brother in law on the floor ..and all I know is you give out good advice ..the interpretation is the right one for me ....if they don't help themselves you can't help them ,but you have to be there ready when they are ...so don't let go ...I can't live with thinking I could of done more ..... thank you Mum And Dad for being there for me .r.i.p .. powerful stuff ,I hope I can be strong enough to help my brother in law I have to be the helping hand ...if you don't help ..they gey the wrong help maintaining and justifying the habbit with like minded people ...ever decreasing circles inwards ....and it just gets darker ....and darker ....circles have to get bigger and go outwards where you find space and light ...they have to have a rope down their hole for when they are ready to climb out ....hopefully it's you at the other end holding on to help them out ,my ropes down there but he ain't picked it up ❤
The brilliant thing about the chorus in this song is that it means something different the third time you hear it after the addict raps, almost as if the chorus is now singing about Joiner's character filling empty space (been so alone in harder to reach) and let them go (meaning ODing). This is my interpreting, at least.
Watching someone you love go through addiction sucks, it's really horrible, you feel like you can't help, and when they lose their battle to addition you feel so guilty, maybe if I checked up on them more, maybe I should have done this or that. I miss my brother every day, RIP little bro.
I lost my brother and sister to drugs and you would think my youngest brother would of learned from that but he's still using,I tried to reach out to him today after seeing this and all l can say is addiction is rough
Ty for your advice here, my mom relapsed again recently and it was helpful to hear. But I want to push back just a little on the disease part. I dont argue that its a disease or not, I dont care, in the end I don't think it matters. Im a type 1 diabetic and thats the only reason I was an unsuccessful alcoholic, but thats a disease unequivocally. Its also a stigmatized disease that people aren't super educated on and I have been treated most my life unsympathetically, as if I did it to myself and deserved the consequences, just like people treat addicts. T1D is a disease entirely out of my control, like addiction is. But I still have to take care of myself, make the better choices, to keep picking up my insulin and feeling worthy of life, like they need to choose NOT to pick up the substance killing them. I cant complain about my poor hand while also turning a blind eye to my solutions, to the things that will help and improve how I feel and live. It just doesn't matter if it's a disease or not, the answers still the same. "It is not the disease, but *neglect of the remedy*, that generally destroys life."
I'll repost this here, it is a response I posted to another comment above, I agree with you it doesn't matter if it is a disease ot not. "The thing is that most people even those with a terminal illness do not refuse to try and get help, most don't stop fighting/looking for a cure until the day they die. I feel like, it is a disease, a disease that is treatable. And just like we would push our loved ones to get help if they have diabetes we should keep pushing for this as well. Funny thing is my uncle died of diabetes related complications because he refused to stop drinking even after he was diagnosed. His go to phrase was "we all die sometimes, at least I'll die happy", he was the youngest of all my uncles and died less than a year after being diagnosed with diabetes. The truth is not matter what label we use for it, an addict will always have an excuse, calling it a disease is more a benefit for us to undertand that it's not something you can just wake up one day and decide you are no longer an addict. It is a process, you need to through the treatment steps and heal. Just like a diabetic can't just wake up one day and decide, I am not longer diabetic, they have to change their life style, take medicine, etc..."
Hey Tom, thanks for all you do and thanks for helping to show that Hip Hop culture really has bigger meaning for people. Have you thought about breaking down some of the tracks from Killer Mike's "Michael" album? I can think of "Motherless", "Shed Tears", "Slummer", "Something for Junkies" and others that are fire but also have some cool messages.
You know it does suck having to push someone away cus their addiction. Went over to my homies house everyday he always acted like he didn’t need it but he never stopped using. I had to tell him I love you but I love you enough to let you go, I can’t keep trying to help someone who doesn’t want help if you want help I’m here but I can’t help you if you don’t want to help yourself. Been months since I’ve seen him I hope he’s doing great and he found help I wish him only the best.
I also feel like calling it a disease gives SOME people an excuse to say "I have a disease, I can't help myself". My fiance was an alcoholic, and she used that as an excuse to not even bother TRYING to stop drinking. Alcoholism runs in my family as well. My father and three of his brothers were alcoholic, and my grandmother on my mother's side. I feel like maybe there should be another category created, besides disease, that describes it better, without making it seem there's nothing they can do about it because they caught a disease, like they have cancer or something.
Addiction isn't a disease, it's a mental illness. Which is just as bad of course, but the main difference is that it IS within our control, at least to an extent. The addiction usually never originates from the substance, it originates from the mental illness and insecurities that come before the substance, that leads to them using more and more to begin with. The important thing, like he said in the video, is to notice the moment they start using drugs more often, or drinking more often, and try to help with the underlying mental issues BEFORE it develops into a full-on addiction.
@@TheOnlyGhxstevery thing you just said is completely wrong and science does not agree varies by substance but 40 to 70 percent of addiction is due to genetics and traits you inherit for the kast couple hundreds of years we been dosing the population every body drink back in the day they sold millions of bottles of opiate and alcohol-laced patent medicines for consoling fussy babies , during the two great wars all the soldiers were drug out there minds how you think they marched so far so fast, in the 50s all the house wifes were on meth and smokeing cigarettes , 70s weed and lsd and mushroom, 80s everybody on crack 90s everybody on coke and people wonder why it's so easy for humans to become susceptible to addiction its not a person problem its a society problem and sometimes its not as simple as just stoping
The thing is that most people even those with a terminal illness do not refuse to try and get help, most don't stop fighting/looking for a cure until the day they die. I feel like, it is a disease, a disease that is treatable. And just like we would push our loved ones to get help if they have diabetes we should keep pushing for this as well. Funny thing is my uncle died of diabetes related complications because he refused to stop drinking even after he was diagnosed. His go to phrase was "we all die sometimes, at least I'll die happy", he was the youngest of all my uncles and died less than a year after being diagnosed with diabetes. The truth is not matter what label we use for it, an addict will always have an excuse, calling it a disease is more a benefit for us to undertand that it's not something you can just wake up one day and decide you are no longer an addict. It is a process, you need to through the treatment steps and heal. Just like a diabetic can't just wake up one day and decide, I am not longer diabetic, they have to change their life style, take medicine, etc...
Any disease, you have to take responsibility to manage it or to recover. So yes it’s a disease, like cancer or diabetes, but like diabetics who refuse to take their insulin, addicts can let their disease control them or they can seek treatment and follow through for the rest of their life.
@@TheOnlyGhxstit’s not a mental illness. It is a physical illness too… a genetic predisposition. Like diabetes. Or depression. Abuse of a substance is more mental, but addiction is not. Some substance abusers also have the disease of addiction, but not all of them. If they are not an addict, then an abuser can address it more easily by using coping skills or mental strategies. Addiction usually requires help and treatment.
I've watched my Twin Brother, multiple times, get on, and Off Drugs, and I have NEVER Drunk Alcohol, or Done Drugs EVER,.. In My Life,.. But When I See My Brother Doing That it Makes Me Tear Up Inside.., Because like you said DRUG'S Turn, People into Zombie's,.. and people on Drugs Don't recognize you, How Long They have known you No MATTER If they Look just like you or Not, People Blitzed Drunk On Alcohol Are, just like Zombie's For Real For Real,.. But Are Funny And Usually End Up In JAIL For Dumb Stuff, like Driving Drunk or killing SOMEONE BEHIND the Wheel of a Car, people on Dope just Use Sale And Get Caught in the process and have to Serve, a good Amount of Time Behind Those Wall's 🚔 Stay Clean, And On The RIGHT Path,.. In Life..!💯💯💯💯💯
I think I’m a rare person. I was addicted to pain pills. My husband gave me a choice. Him or the pills. I chose him and that was 20 years ago. My father is a retired psychologist who specialized in alcohol and drug abuse. I didn’t seek out therapy. I made the choice of my marriage. I know that I am in the 1% who beat the addiction without counseling or rehab. It was just a choice that I had to make and I found my way to the other side of this addiction. It wasn’t an easy thing to do. But I went cold turkey because I love my husband that much.
You can be there for someone and not enable their addiction at the same time. Just Pull up a chair to sit with them, when they have fallen, And reach out your hand when they need help getting up.
Appreciate that you understand it is a disease way to many people don’t get that. That being said we must still stay accountable and not excuse the behavior.
Fun fact, The one playing the Addict actually dedicated a song to someone he lost to addiction and all the feeling portrayed in the video are real and not acting!
My uncle committed suicide a few months ago he took alot of pills its sad. Its almost like this song was written for me. I got an addictive personality and to many bad habits. This song is inspiring. Its hard to quit when your addicted. I want to though.
Not a disease. It’s a choice. That’s just used as an excuse to not stop. I was an addict for a brief period and not one time did I think I had a disease. I chose to pop the first pill after an injury. I chose to keep popping the pills. I chose to get clean and sober.
Be thankful my man, its not as easy as that for everyone. My sister struggled for years and is now atleast 15+ years sober thankfully. It is definitely much more then just a choice unfortunately.
I'm am alcoholic. I feel like I'm so close to being stripped away from it. Then i get a boring feeling or a stressed feeling. Then i go back to my drinks. But just because i failed 100 times, I'm not giving up. I'm going to keep trying.
I have little brothers. We aren't close at all, and i haven't done my brotherly duties. But i want to quit, and be there for them if they ever fall into the pit of addiction.
Thank you so much for calling it an illness. It really needs saying. That’s why you have to hand your life over to a power greater than you everyday to become well again as running life in your own will won’t work. Get through the 12 steps and get better. The only way a true addict can get well is accepting a power greater than themselves. Find god !
Remember the “good ‘ol’ days” when you could “allegedly” do some drugs without it being a literal game of Russian roulette? Yeah… me too. Good times… That may sound reprehensible to some people. I’m not talking to them; I think most fans of this channel will understand that my intent in saying that isn’t to glorify drug use. This opioid epidemic has become EXPONENTIALLY larger and infinitely more dangerous in the age of fentanyl. Anyways, This is the reaction to this track I was waiting for. Thanks for the upload & yeah, Joyner came through with the goods. Again. And JR’s hook was like that Ether - that shit that makes your soul burn slow. I want to say this is a great song but it’s more than that. It’s a great story, and unfortunately a very real story. Except in the real stories there’s a good chance there’s no second verse considering how rarely the dead speak.
In my opinion everbody needs something different my cause was not fell8like i was good enough im still learning i care more about others then i do myself and i got clean not for me for a woman and her kids so everyone has something that makes them want to change but i still cant look at myself in the mirror so im still working towards but yea
love this. I agree, its different for everybody. And I think that's the real message from this song. Perspective is everything, and no two people experience things the same way.
My Sister & her olé’man, my Nephew (Sisters Son) and My Son had been active heroin/fentanyl addicts all using together!!!! This scenario was HORRIBLE!!! So PAINFULLY SAD & Very FRIGHTENING and I was So ANGRY!!!! my sister and her man got clean my baby son overdosed it was only me and him here at the house I thought he was clean. I had no Narcan. I worked on him while begging and praying chest compressions\breathing actively doing CPR seem like forever!!!! The most terrifying thing I’d ever been through!!! I was scared to death!!!! I brought him back! My nephew got clean went to Florida worked hurricane IAN They were all doing so good sister and nephew. came back home 😢two months later My Nephew used for the last time!!! The site of them orange caps literally make me nauseous and furious, and very sad!!!!
Doc if someone asks me for 20 dollars and I have the means to help them and I don't that's a detriment to my character. But if I give someone 20 dollars and they use it for drugs that's a detriment to their character not mine.
I finally cut my cousins off because of their drug addiction. She kept telling me I didn’t actually care about her and I told her well if you think that congratulations I don’t anymore and blocked her on everything
Lost my two cousins to drugs and lost my mom to liquor and she use to tell me to chill out because I’m drinking more then her at my age just don’t have anyone my dad mom gone my cousins die from drugs my other cousin got killed Both set of grandparents from mom and dad side are gone just turn 25 don’t even get to wake up everyday to my beautiful daughter Ik I need help 🙏🏼💯 i also know I’m in God hands 🙌
Hey tom, some people in my school has started an account on social media spreading false rumors about people in my school, myself being a victim and its really making me worried for myself and my girlfriend, im honestly scared and im afraid of telling someone because of what the consequences might be, i know it might make me look stupid for reaching into your comment section but this is probably the only way i can get some form of response from you, im really scared and i've been freaking out the whole day since i got home, what should I do?
I don't think you've quite taken in what Joyners done here. You mentioned the 2 sides of the coin okay, but you've understood the first half and not considered the other half of the argument which is what these songs try to get people to do. It seems you've sided with what you initially said on the first verse and doubled down. Listen again. Listen from the perspective of an addict. The exact same chorus hits in a completely different way after that second verse. You're right in everything you say though I can appreciate that, just didn't fully hit the mark.
Man you need to not endorse better help. You're better off not getting therapy than get therapy through them. Everyone hates them and they're predatory and match you with amateur "therapists"
The co star in this music video is Mic DeVine. He wrote a song called "Way Down We Go". He dedicated it to his and Joyner's friend Dave who they lost to a OD. Ppl said "WDWG" was the inspiration for this song. Mic didn't have to force emotions to come out for this music video. He just allowed himself to feel that pain and loss.
thank you for this, when i first saw this music video his part was so filled with emotional that's something you can't fake. I felt that
Thank you jamieennen964
@@micdivine9611 I have been directing ppl to you when I see reactions for Best For Me. I want to say thank you to you! WDWG should be just as well known as Best For Me is!! WDWG made me cry my eyes out!
My daughter's dad lost his battle with addiction. He got some stuff that was laced with rat poison and he was IV using. So there was nothing that could be done. We hadn't been together for 4 yrs by then. I was 15yo when I got with him. I was with him for 12 yrs. When we had our daughter who was born with 5 heart defects...he didn't know how to deal with it so he chose drugs. Leaving me alone to take care of our daughter on my own. When he did show up he stole everything and tried to kill me on few occasions when I didn't let him take things. I didn't leave him because I didn't love him. I just loved my daughter more.. I was done letting my daughter see me be hit on so I left him as soon as I was able to. I knew it wasn't him. It was the drugs. But I had to put my daughter first. He passed a week after she had a heart procedure. He wasn't there for it. Or any of the other hospital stays or operations. I know he loved me and our daughter. He just couldn't beat it. His pregnant gf was there with their 2yo daughter when it happened. His gf was the one who got it for him. Four other ppl passed away that night from that guy's stuff.
I had lost 6 family members within a yr n a half before he passed. So it was hard time for my daughter and I. Still is. We didn't get a chance to grieve before we lost another loved one!! I just pray for good news in the future for her health. Had scary times and more to come. Music helps me get thru thru each day. I pray for all of those struggling! Keep making music! Keep impacting lives! 💜💚
Joyner is the goat
One day, Tom will be sending all of us bills for all the wisdom and life advice he spits our way lol
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You leaving this comment is my payment! Thank you my friend 😊❤️
@ReactionTherapyOfficial I'm in the process of finding a therapist, and I can only hope they are as understanding and wise as you. Thanks Tom!
“If you get lost then everyone loses”. That hurts deep.
Deep.. that part gets me. So accurate
I never leave comments but I have to say thank you. I'm 20 years clean and recently lost my little brother to self ending due to drug addiction. I have fought with the guilt of "walking away" from him because it was bringing my memories of being addicted. Our last message to each other was not good and I felt with that message it pushed him over. In his own words he told me that I was the last one who hadn't givin up on him. After watching your reaction to this I really was able to let that guilt/burden go. So again thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I’m so proud of you and he is looking over you smiling brother… I love you and he loves you… stay strong man you have so much support with god and me
Stay strong brother! Same happened to me with my little sister and my best friend only a few years apart. Its crazy how isolating it feels..Like we were the only ones who knows the pain and went through this. After some time passes, we realize that its happening everywhere to everyone and were actually survivors of the times. All we can do is live a better life for them...Keep them close in our memory and heart but use our pain as wisdom moving forward. I never leave comments either but losing a younger sibling is extremely rough...It doesn't get easier unfortunately, but you will learn so much. Keep an open mind, stay positive as much as you can and you will always stay clean and living your best life. Much love bro
From someone that was fighting addiction not that long ago and now over a year sober, I can say this song hits me deeply. If you're fighting addiction do not be afraid to get the help you need!
Keep fighting the fight! Congrats on one year!🎉
As a recovering addict the way jelly rolls chorus hits two different ways when saying the exact same words is crazy to me.
Double entendre
Yes! After hearing each verse it hits different each time. I didn’t know if I was the only one that felt that way.
It’s the people you least expect to be heroes. The way Jelly Roll has taken to being a voice for help is amazing. I can’t name 3 of his songs, but I absolutely love the guy
I just got out of recovery. 52 days sober. Three of my rehab buddies have reached out and relapsed. One thing you learn about support in recovery..you have to put your oxygen mask first, then help the next person. However if they do not take the help, you pray they make it back. It's the sick cycle of addiction. If you are newly recovering addict, you have to send your friend who relapses to someone with long term sobriety who can offer tools and resources.
Joyner and Jelly are both in recovery and as someone who has gone in and out of sobriety, its stuff like this that keeps me going. Wasn't going to but this inspired me to hit a meeting today ✊️
Hell yeah you got this!
Joyner in recovery? Nope
Joyner was never an addict
Joyner was never an addict. But he has family members who were/are
I believe Joyner used to sell… he grew up in my area, Worcester, MA. A lot of dealers and addicts in Worcester.
49 seconds into the reaction... Love that, "wooooooo....!"
First time reacting to this channel btw, was watching the song and this video was under.
I’m from the Houston area as well, had tickets to go see him too! Was bummed he cancelled his concert in Houston, so I went to go see him in Dallas!
The most compasionate are the most damaged.... Damn that shook me
Joyner Lucas is from my area… Worcester, MA. I need to see him next time he comes around!!
This song touched me man. This song was written for me and my daughter I swear
Joyner is so good at seeing it from both sides.
It’s really his lane! Storytelling at its finest! It’s not a style that’s for everyone and he’s mastered it as you said from both sides
Facts bro
@@blackkingrottweilers8535I love it because it shows perspective and not really biased
This song speaks to my soul, my mother is struggling with addiction, and hearing joyners verse from the outside looking in is literally me. And then the switch up he did in the second verse, flipping the perspective, made me think that she feels that way towards me. I never try to preach to her, I just want my mama back…
What a great collaboration.
I have lost family to addiction and I can relate to everything he said 😢
Im addicted to this song cause I feel and relate to every word in this song
This is painful..i used to chase my mother around various drug houses around the bay area in Oakland Cali thinking i could save her..many of days i would beat on doors knowing she was behind them but dudes with guns would run me off..i had no power at the age of 15 to protect her. Just typing this made me cry and im now the age of 48 and though i placed those memories in the back of my head never to be remembered this video placed me back in that time. Jelly Roll verse is literally what i had to do.This song is a gift and a curse. Shout out from west monroe la. I thought i had escaped those memories... but clearly i have not... via this song.
Fkn shed a tear reading your passage my G. Fkn much respect and love ❤️🙏🏾
I feel this so much.
I tried to help him get sober. Went to therapy sessions. Found docs to help him with his bipolar disorder/personality disorder. He hid the fact we were doing all these things to help but he was still using behind my back.
He ended up in the hospital 2wks ago. He missed his vein and it got infected. He almost lost his arm.
I told his mom he tested positive for meth in the hospital.
He told her I was lying . He told everyone it was a spider bit.
I lost my love. And family. Bc his family was like my family.
He told me it's my fault we can't be together now bc I told the truth.
We don't talk anymore.
It's treatable, 9 yrs clean, much love and appreciation from Kentucky ❤️🙏❤️
When you love someone and have to let them go as not to enable them and for your own mental wellbeing it’s hard. The PTSD from the phone calls from the ER or the police makes hearing the phone ring and the dropping feeling in your stomach. The depression and anxiety from knowing you can’t help them till they are ready for the help. Hopefully before it’s too late. My daughter has been clean and sober for over a year now but our relationship is not the same. I don’t know if it ever will be but I hope in time it will be.
I really loved the exhibod Jelly. It came in after all the hard hitting lyrics almost like a whisper to ease the pain.
The line " if you don't believe in yourself then you can't believe someone believes in you"
I have watched every reaction to this song/video and this is the absolute best and favorite reaction i have seen!!! Very impressed..Thank you
This was me and my brothers dynamic when i was addicted to pills and dope. Gets me choked up listening to this, thankfully i got clean about 5 years ago and we have a great relationship now
This song just touched my heart ...I was the man on the floor 15 years ago ...now I'm Joyner Lucas and talking to my brother in law on the floor ..and all I know is you give out good advice ..the interpretation is the right one for me ....if they don't help themselves you can't help them ,but you have to be there ready when they are ...so don't let go ...I can't live with thinking I could of done more ..... thank you Mum And Dad for being there for me .r.i.p ..
powerful stuff ,I hope I can be strong enough to help my brother in law I have to be the helping hand ...if you don't help ..they gey the wrong help maintaining and justifying the habbit with like minded people ...ever decreasing circles inwards ....and it just gets darker ....and darker ....circles have to get bigger and go outwards where you find space and light ...they have to have a rope down their hole for when they are ready to climb out ....hopefully it's you at the other end holding on to help them out ,my ropes down there but he ain't picked it up ❤
The brilliant thing about the chorus in this song is that it means something different the third time you hear it after the addict raps, almost as if the chorus is now singing about Joiner's character filling empty space (been so alone in harder to reach) and let them go (meaning ODing). This is my interpreting, at least.
been waiting for this one thank you for your perspective
I love that you're so up to date on hip hop artists and songs Tom, you're an awesome human being 💚 thanks for everything you do friend
Watching someone you love go through addiction sucks, it's really horrible, you feel like you can't help, and when they lose their battle to addition you feel so guilty, maybe if I checked up on them more, maybe I should have done this or that.
I miss my brother every day, RIP little bro.
I lost my brother and sister to drugs and you would think my youngest brother would of learned from that but he's still using,I tried to reach out to him today after seeing this and all l can say is addiction is rough
I love hearing a therapists logic behind this. Great reaction. Earned a new sub.
I’m attending the same concert in Silver Spring Md.
holy shit this song is over 5 months old? jesus am i late to the party
Ty for your advice here, my mom relapsed again recently and it was helpful to hear. But I want to push back just a little on the disease part.
I dont argue that its a disease or not, I dont care, in the end I don't think it matters. Im a type 1 diabetic and thats the only reason I was an unsuccessful alcoholic, but thats a disease unequivocally. Its also a stigmatized disease that people aren't super educated on and I have been treated most my life unsympathetically, as if I did it to myself and deserved the consequences, just like people treat addicts. T1D is a disease entirely out of my control, like addiction is. But I still have to take care of myself, make the better choices, to keep picking up my insulin and feeling worthy of life, like they need to choose NOT to pick up the substance killing them. I cant complain about my poor hand while also turning a blind eye to my solutions, to the things that will help and improve how I feel and live. It just doesn't matter if it's a disease or not, the answers still the same.
"It is not the disease, but *neglect of the remedy*, that generally destroys life."
I'll repost this here, it is a response I posted to another comment above, I agree with you it doesn't matter if it is a disease ot not.
"The thing is that most people even those with a terminal illness do not refuse to try and get help, most don't stop fighting/looking for a cure until the day they die. I feel like, it is a disease, a disease that is treatable. And just like we would push our loved ones to get help if they have diabetes we should keep pushing for this as well. Funny thing is my uncle died of diabetes related complications because he refused to stop drinking even after he was diagnosed. His go to phrase was "we all die sometimes, at least I'll die happy", he was the youngest of all my uncles and died less than a year after being diagnosed with diabetes. The truth is not matter what label we use for it, an addict will always have an excuse, calling it a disease is more a benefit for us to undertand that it's not something you can just wake up one day and decide you are no longer an addict. It is a process, you need to through the treatment steps and heal. Just like a diabetic can't just wake up one day and decide, I am not longer diabetic, they have to change their life style, take medicine, etc..."
This one hit hard, and hit home. Not sure how I ended up on your reaction, but I appreciate it. UA-cam algorithms be on another level!
I have been waiting for you to react to this.. You my good sir did not disappoint.
I subscribed to you BECAUSE you keep reacting to the songs I listen to from the day they're released (on repeat)!
Instant subscribe on this, such passion for music and people and such a beautiful breakdown as well. Thank you sir!
Hey Tom, thanks for all you do and thanks for helping to show that Hip Hop culture really has bigger meaning for people. Have you thought about breaking down some of the tracks from Killer Mike's "Michael" album? I can think of "Motherless", "Shed Tears", "Slummer", "Something for Junkies" and others that are fire but also have some cool messages.
Was waiting for this one
June 1st in Dallas. I'll be there
Heck yeah I was waiting for your reaction. This song is so so good.
Joyner has a lot of great songs on this album. If you were looking into this he tells a lot of stories on it.
You know it does suck having to push someone away cus their addiction. Went over to my homies house everyday he always acted like he didn’t need it but he never stopped using. I had to tell him I love you but I love you enough to let you go, I can’t keep trying to help someone who doesn’t want help if you want help I’m here but I can’t help you if you don’t want to help yourself. Been months since I’ve seen him I hope he’s doing great and he found help I wish him only the best.
Never give up on them!!!!!
I also feel like calling it a disease gives SOME people an excuse to say "I have a disease, I can't help myself". My fiance was an alcoholic, and she used that as an excuse to not even bother TRYING to stop drinking. Alcoholism runs in my family as well. My father and three of his brothers were alcoholic, and my grandmother on my mother's side.
I feel like maybe there should be another category created, besides disease, that describes it better, without making it seem there's nothing they can do about it because they caught a disease, like they have cancer or something.
Addiction isn't a disease, it's a mental illness. Which is just as bad of course, but the main difference is that it IS within our control, at least to an extent. The addiction usually never originates from the substance, it originates from the mental illness and insecurities that come before the substance, that leads to them using more and more to begin with. The important thing, like he said in the video, is to notice the moment they start using drugs more often, or drinking more often, and try to help with the underlying mental issues BEFORE it develops into a full-on addiction.
@@TheOnlyGhxstevery thing you just said is completely wrong and science does not agree varies by substance but 40 to 70 percent of addiction is due to genetics and traits you inherit for the kast couple hundreds of years we been dosing the population every body drink back in the day they sold millions of bottles of opiate and alcohol-laced patent medicines for consoling fussy babies , during the two great wars all the soldiers were drug out there minds how you think they marched so far so fast, in the 50s all the house wifes were on meth and smokeing cigarettes , 70s weed and lsd and mushroom, 80s everybody on crack 90s everybody on coke and people wonder why it's so easy for humans to become susceptible to addiction its not a person problem its a society problem and sometimes its not as simple as just stoping
The thing is that most people even those with a terminal illness do not refuse to try and get help, most don't stop fighting/looking for a cure until the day they die. I feel like, it is a disease, a disease that is treatable. And just like we would push our loved ones to get help if they have diabetes we should keep pushing for this as well. Funny thing is my uncle died of diabetes related complications because he refused to stop drinking even after he was diagnosed. His go to phrase was "we all die sometimes, at least I'll die happy", he was the youngest of all my uncles and died less than a year after being diagnosed with diabetes. The truth is not matter what label we use for it, an addict will always have an excuse, calling it a disease is more a benefit for us to undertand that it's not something you can just wake up one day and decide you are no longer an addict. It is a process, you need to through the treatment steps and heal. Just like a diabetic can't just wake up one day and decide, I am not longer diabetic, they have to change their life style, take medicine, etc...
Any disease, you have to take responsibility to manage it or to recover. So yes it’s a disease, like cancer or diabetes, but like diabetics who refuse to take their insulin, addicts can let their disease control them or they can seek treatment and follow through for the rest of their life.
@@TheOnlyGhxstit’s not a mental illness. It is a physical illness too… a genetic predisposition. Like diabetes. Or depression. Abuse of a substance is more mental, but addiction is not. Some substance abusers also have the disease of addiction, but not all of them. If they are not an addict, then an abuser can address it more easily by using coping skills or mental strategies. Addiction usually requires help and treatment.
real ass words from a real ass therapist if i was rich this would be my therapist fa sho lol
You got to listen to Joyner Lucas “I’m not Racist” the best storytelling he’s ever done! Also what made him blow up years ago 💯💯💯
No one explains it better than you, thank you for all you do ❤️
As soon as I heard this song, I was waiting for this reaction
I've watched my Twin Brother, multiple times, get on, and Off Drugs, and I have NEVER Drunk Alcohol, or Done Drugs EVER,.. In My Life,.. But When I See My Brother Doing That it Makes Me Tear Up Inside.., Because like you said DRUG'S Turn, People into Zombie's,.. and people on Drugs Don't recognize you, How Long They have known you No MATTER If they Look just like you or Not, People Blitzed Drunk On Alcohol Are, just like Zombie's For Real For Real,.. But Are Funny And Usually End Up In JAIL For Dumb Stuff, like Driving Drunk or killing SOMEONE BEHIND the Wheel of a Car, people on Dope just Use Sale And Get Caught in the process and have to Serve, a good Amount of Time Behind Those Wall's 🚔 Stay Clean, And On The RIGHT Path,.. In Life..!💯💯💯💯💯
your adlibs were on point 😂😂😂
I think I’m a rare person. I was addicted to pain pills. My husband gave me a choice. Him or the pills. I chose him and that was 20 years ago. My father is a retired psychologist who specialized in alcohol and drug abuse. I didn’t seek out therapy. I made the choice of my marriage. I know that I am in the 1% who beat the addiction without counseling or rehab. It was just a choice that I had to make and I found my way to the other side of this addiction. It wasn’t an easy thing to do. But I went cold turkey because I love my husband that much.
That hoodie is great
You can be there for someone and not enable their addiction at the same time. Just Pull up a chair to sit with them, when they have fallen, And reach out your hand when they need help getting up.
As a parent it’s very difficult. But both are doing well now!!
You broke it down soo well keeo it up brother
Linkin Park. Song called Heavy
Love how effortlessly Joyner steps into both shoes and be able to deliver the message from both sides with precision 🫡🙌
One of Jellyroll's songs that give people an enormous amount of awareness is "She"
Yes!! That song is really gets me every time
Yes . I have big feeling for SHE . I feel like she was me years ago
You're right it's like they're body is filled with someone else
Deep piece of music 😮
Appreciate that you understand it is a disease way to many people don’t get that. That being said we must still stay accountable and not excuse the behavior.
So good! 💐💐💐💐🫶🏼
Joyner wrote this song for his cousin who he lost to an overdose
Your videos make my day!!!
Fun fact, The one playing the Addict actually dedicated a song to someone he lost to addiction and all the feeling portrayed in the video are real and not acting!
This song speaks to me because I've been on both sides.
Amazing reaction
My uncle committed suicide a few months ago he took alot of pills its sad. Its almost like this song was written for me. I got an addictive personality and to many bad habits. This song is inspiring. Its hard to quit when your addicted. I want to though.
Not a disease. It’s a choice. That’s just used as an excuse to not stop. I was an addict for a brief period and not one time did I think I had a disease. I chose to pop the first pill after an injury. I chose to keep popping the pills. I chose to get clean and sober.
Be thankful my man, its not as easy as that for everyone. My sister struggled for years and is now atleast 15+ years sober thankfully. It is definitely much more then just a choice unfortunately.
I'm am alcoholic. I feel like I'm so close to being stripped away from it. Then i get a boring feeling or a stressed feeling. Then i go back to my drinks. But just because i failed 100 times, I'm not giving up. I'm going to keep trying.
I have little brothers. We aren't close at all, and i haven't done my brotherly duties. But i want to quit, and be there for them if they ever fall into the pit of addiction.
Thank you so much for calling it an illness. It really needs saying. That’s why you have to hand your life over to a power greater than you everyday to become well again as running life in your own will won’t work. Get through the 12 steps and get better. The only way a true addict can get well is accepting a power greater than themselves. Find god !
Remember the “good ‘ol’ days” when you could “allegedly” do some drugs without it being a literal game of Russian roulette? Yeah… me too. Good times… That may sound reprehensible to some people. I’m not talking to them; I think most fans of this channel will understand that my intent in saying that isn’t to glorify drug use. This opioid epidemic has become EXPONENTIALLY larger and infinitely more dangerous in the age of fentanyl. Anyways, This is the reaction to this track I was waiting for. Thanks for the upload & yeah, Joyner came through with the goods. Again. And JR’s hook was like that Ether - that shit that makes your soul burn slow. I want to say this is a great song but it’s more than that. It’s a great story, and unfortunately a very real story. Except in the real stories there’s a good chance there’s no second verse considering how rarely the dead speak.
Second one here! Love your reactions man!
dude love your videos you should check out rubys old stuff like oddy nuff da snow leopard- Pluto i think you would enjoy it
My influencer is a therapist. 💪🏾💯🤣
OverTime - Carousel
In my opinion everbody needs something different my cause was not fell8like i was good enough im still learning i care more about others then i do myself and i got clean not for me for a woman and her kids so everyone has something that makes them want to change but i still cant look at myself in the mirror so im still working towards but yea
love this. I agree, its different for everybody. And I think that's the real message from this song. Perspective is everything, and no two people experience things the same way.
My Sister & her olé’man, my Nephew (Sisters Son) and My Son had been active heroin/fentanyl addicts all using together!!!! This scenario was HORRIBLE!!! So PAINFULLY SAD & Very FRIGHTENING and I was So ANGRY!!!! my sister and her man got clean my baby son overdosed it was only me and him here at the house I thought he was clean. I had no Narcan. I worked on him while begging and praying chest compressions\breathing actively doing CPR seem like forever!!!! The most terrifying thing I’d ever been through!!! I was scared to death!!!! I brought him back! My nephew got clean went to Florida worked hurricane IAN They were all doing so good sister and nephew. came back home 😢two months later My Nephew used for the last time!!! The site of them orange caps literally make me nauseous and furious, and very sad!!!!
Doc if someone asks me for 20 dollars and I have the means to help them and I don't that's a detriment to my character.
But if I give someone 20 dollars and they use it for drugs that's a detriment to their character not mine.
I finally cut my cousins off because of their drug addiction. She kept telling me I didn’t actually care about her and I told her well if you think that congratulations I don’t anymore and blocked her on everything
Can i request some Ekoh reactions? It might be worth it to you, maybe? I think his lyrics are impactful and honest.
My mom works for Better help❤
Please, Please.
React to Norman Pain -Sindu Sesh
Please, and Thank You!
1.36 : I think that if you really loved someone, you would not be selfish, but instead let them go.
What if they want to stop using but simply cannot find a way not to?
There's a difference between addict and substance abuse
Lost my two cousins to drugs and lost my mom to liquor and she use to tell me to chill out because I’m drinking more then her at my age just don’t have anyone my dad mom gone my cousins die from drugs my other cousin got killed Both set of grandparents from mom and dad side are gone just turn 25 don’t even get to wake up everyday to my beautiful daughter Ik I need help 🙏🏼💯 i also know I’m in God hands 🙌
have you looked at the song with a different perspective?
i mean mental health?
Hey tom, some people in my school has started an account on social media spreading false rumors about people in my school, myself being a victim and its really making me worried for myself and my girlfriend, im honestly scared and im afraid of telling someone because of what the consequences might be, i know it might make me look stupid for reaching into your comment section but this is probably the only way i can get some form of response from you, im really scared and i've been freaking out the whole day since i got home, what should I do?
SNL jepordy skit has ruined me for life. I still read therapist as the rapist 😅😅
Also, this song is beautiful. thank you for the awesome breakdown.
React to trippie redd, please
Songs: love scar 3 , taking a walk, who needs love, also, snake skin, is good
I don't think you've quite taken in what Joyners done here. You mentioned the 2 sides of the coin okay, but you've understood the first half and not considered the other half of the argument which is what these songs try to get people to do. It seems you've sided with what you initially said on the first verse and doubled down. Listen again. Listen from the perspective of an addict. The exact same chorus hits in a completely different way after that second verse.
You're right in everything you say though I can appreciate that, just didn't fully hit the mark.
First of all no one asked to be born. How come it’s someone choice to go get a tattoo but if they wanna check out it’s wrong?
React bmth
Man you need to not endorse better help. You're better off not getting therapy than get therapy through them. Everyone hates them and they're predatory and match you with amateur "therapists"
I respected you. It’s not. You’re speaking out of pocket.
Trying a little too hard fam