I think the most heart breaking part of the song was him saying "Them pills got you right?" The anger and sadness in his voice is the hardest part to deal with.
After a year of listening to NF songs, I can finally not tear up when hearing this song. My dad was an alcoholic and died all alone with a bottle next to him. For most of my young life I had a hatred for him. He was verbally abusive. We did have reconciliation 4 months before he died, but it was still a trauma to me. I hated myself for the anger I had. This last year I've gotten into a support group and counciling. I thank God for ИF‼️💔❤️🩹❤️
Thank you for reacting to this and your warm words. I lost my father at 19 to suicide, I am now 48. It’s still there at times. I loved you warm and honest words, thank you.
I just got to say, love your parents while they are here. I am 30 years old and in almost the exact same situation as this song. My mom has done hardcore drugs all her life, and has been in jail for pretty much all of mine. She has not passed, but she is now in a jail in Mexico, and I will not see her another day of her life. I have already lost my dad a few years ago to drugs and alcohol. "Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had?" It's tough man... it's tough
Seeing NF on May 8th, I am so excited to see him live. He is a great story teller, and unfortunately some of the beautiful music comes from the deepest pain and sorrow. Like he said, "Music is the only place I can go to speak to you." I feel that so much as a musician myself
Dang... You got me out here getting emotional watching your reaction keilani.. 😤😥😂💯 Thank you for being so real and honest. You are truly amazing! Just inspiring 🫶🏼✨🙌🏼 Now you have to react to Mama. Then his whole hope album. It is the definition of growth and healing. What he has gone through. The things that have happened to him to get to the moment he is at right now.
This song still hits hard. I had to watch my younger cousins go through this with my aunt. Though she didn’t pass because of pills/ drugs, but liver cirrhosis due to alcoholism. Many people don’t understand what alcoholism does to a family. For the alcoholic, it’s all fun and games for them but devastating for the family they leave behind. They don’t understand how quickly and subtly it can go from “just fun” to an addiction. 😢. This kills me every time, because when my mother was working three jobs and my father was alcoholic, my aunt was a mother to my sisters and I. I remember being 13 and watching my aunt deteriorate in a hospital bed and when she was moved to hospice care. I remember being at a church softball game when we got the word that she had passed.
My older cousin went through the same thing with my uncle. It''ll be five years this year he's been gone. It was hard enough watching him deteriorate from a distance. Seeing it in real time like my cousin did is unimaginable to me.
Do not listen to these people telling you to just skip to Mama. It’s important to see the journey it took for him to get there. You will get to Mama at some point but continue the journey in order like you have. It’s all worth it in the end.
my childhood was similar to NF and the line thats get me the most, (why do i feel like i lost something, i never had) i still dont understand how i miss her but honestly never had one
I have probably heard this song 100+ times. NF is my favorite artist out there right now. I found this journey in 2020 when my daughter died. I feel that people do not find NF's music. NF's music finds them when they need it. His mom passed away when he was 18. He is now 33 and is in a much better place of forgiveness and acceptance now. He said in an interview that he is showing her grace now even though she is no longer here physically. Very good reaction to this! 👍🏼❣️
I can relate to his pain i lost a friend of mine that was Speical to me 7 months ago. I still miss them everyday and i hope no one has to go through this because it takes its toll on you and pushes you to your limits. And in some cases it pushes you past your limits and sometimes it doesnt end well.
I lost my mom when I was 13 due to domestic violence and drugs being involved. I had anger issues until about High School. Questioned life even before I knew who I was. Milestones hit me hard. She died on July 4th weekend, so every yr that's hard. Graduation, birthdays, breakups, new dates, reaching my goals at work, marriage to my wonderful wife, who has never met her, but my mom and her would have hit it off (only in my mind) This song hit me like a freight train as all the emotion I have suppressed about it came out. His music, Mansion for example, has helped me open up to my lady - cuz I never knew the words to explain where my mind goes sometimes. I am introverted but my lady gets me to break free of the fear sometimes. But this song hits more so now due to our first kid coming May 9th. A lil girl. And my won't be there to see her Grandchild. To spoil and tell me how I'm doing it wrong. Just her memorial pic w/ the poem I wrote framed and hanging above the recliner in the Nursery. It's hurts all the memories lost ... sad to think they were lost before they were possible. It's an empty feeling - empty
I’m so sorry for the deep loss of your mother and the trauma it’s caused. Becoming a parent has a way of bringing it all to the surface. Keep finding ways to soothe your soul, to honor her, and to keep on the path of healing. With all of the trauma my husband and I carry from childhood, I often pause to take a moment of gratitude that we get to do things differently for our children, we are not perfect, but we are always wanting to heal and be more self aware. I’m so grateful that you’ve found your wife in this big world, and I am thrilled for both of you to begin a new chapter! 💜K
@@delightfulpod Thank you for the kind words. All the loss I have felt in my life has instilled the feeling of "Life is short". Be present in the moment. But there are times of exhaustion of trying to be positive. For me it takes more of a conscious effort to be positive than others, if that make sense
What she's done so far Hope ( introduction to ИF ) ✅️ Main songs from MANSION album ✅️ She's on album 2 Therapy session INTRO 2 ✅️ Therapy Session ✅️ I just wanna know ✅️ How Could You Leave Us ✅️ Next song is Real 🙌 ( your gonna love this one )
This is one of those songs that is tough to listen to, not because it's bad but because you can feel and hear how much emotion and how much of his heart was in this song. The ending portion of this song just gets me every time.
My mom left my dad and my brother and I when I was 12. Sometimes I'd talk to her, but for the most part I didn't want anything to do with her. Felt like she died to us almost essentially. She wanted to start her own new life, felt like we weren't good enough. My brother legit wont talk to her even still, 24 years later. I started mending relationship, but I just struggled making myself vulnerable to her again. This song really does stir up those raw/original emotions I had when I was 12. I finally feel now that I am at peace with everything, but I'm lucky and that she is still alive. NF has a new song you'll find in your journey that makes me relate to him even more now too, called Mama. Every week, I'll have a day of NF therapy and I 100% feel better after it each time.
Thank you again for another beautiful reaction and wonderful insights. I appreciate the time you take to really speak to the real life situations and topics that are attached to these songs. Please have a lovely day.
I lost my mother when I was 7years this song it always make me miss her now I’m 27 but I never forget how she treated me. I hope one day I will meet her
Some might say to watch/listen to Mama after this, but I'd disagree. I think this is just part of seeing NF's journey through music, as he gets older his music will gradually change leading up to the moment you hear Mama. But that's just my 2 cents. Anyone can listen how they'd like. 😊
Raw emotion. Coming from a background with alot of abuse and addiction (addiction part is including myself) I just seem to understand the pain NF expresses. It is the hell that made him. His own personal hell and I can relate. Great reaction. Keep em coming
You absolutely have to listen to “Mama” next! It doesn’t ruin the journey or anything. 7 years had passed between these two songs and NF is in a better place mentally. At the time he recorded “Mama” he had a son. And recently he now also has a daughter. It’s an awesome way to see how time changes perception. Please listen to this next! Can’t wait to watch!
HCYLU is always a tough one. The good news (from an emotional standpoint) is that Real isn't the draining, emotional gut punch that this one is. Awesome reaction as always. I love your comments and your reflection on the human element. Blessings!
My mom passed away 5 years ago from drugs and alcohol at 49 years old. This song hits me in the feels like no other song ive ever heard. Good video, i just subscribed.
I have watched just about every reaction to this song I can find on youtube, there are things that you picked out of this song that no one else(to my recollection) has picked up on, such as the fact that she will not be there for important milestones in his life and that he will continue to grieve the loss of those experiences. This loss and the fact that you picked up on it is especially meaningful to me because I lost my father in 2017 to some health issues caused directly by his nearly life long struggle with alcohol abuse and my mother has advanced stage alzheimers so even though shes still alive she will basically not have the same kind of relationship with my wife or kids that I had with my grandparents if she ever meets them at all. I am not married nor do I have kids and I have not acheived some very important goals that I am pursuing. Those are things I am still grieving the loss of their participation in. The fact that you recognized this is honestly very meaningful and moving to me. Thank you for this.
Pills wasn't my drug of choice, mine was alcohol. I was a severe alcoholic for months. I lost my son, and didn't wanna be sober without him. So I drank, almost died and almost lost my son for good. (Custody battle situation) I became the worst of myself in those several months. Got too drunk to worry about showering, I didn't care about eating, showering, etc. It took my stepmom telling me to not call my son until I could be sober for a week. I poured my alcohol down the sink and was finally able to call my son again. I have two years sobriety and I still get the memory posts on Snap of me at that time period. The pictures my friends took of me laying in a pool of my own vomit and other excrements as I am actively about to die, still makes me so sick to my stomach. I got better friends now, and I am so much happier. But even though I cleaned up my act, this song makes me so sad because I can't help but hear my son singing this song and crying during that time period, and every time I think about relapsing I play this song and imagine just how much it would hurt him if I relapse and start drinking again. My mama heart breaks for NF..
this song tears me apart. hes describing exactly my relationship with my mom who was super addicted to pills and then eventually meth and heroine and she had a heart attack in her sleep last month and ill never get to talk to her again
My daughter is experiencing this with her mom, but her mom does not have an addiction, but it feels like to my daughter. She is so disconnected from her mom. My daughter listens to this song. She says the lyrics about “Being in room with a stranger.” Her mom doesn’t know her. My daughter I have these talks. This breaks my heart because I never wanted a BROKEN family.
I loved this reaction. I know it's what you started with but I hope you add "Hope" into the journey again. Knowing the journey up to that song makes the song so much more meaningful.
Gosh ima grown man an this brings tear to my eyes and speaks my my abandonment issues with my mother to put so much raw emotion into a song nf this song hits hard in a deep place I’m better for this song thanks bro
As he said about his mom, my mom would be a no-show on the weekends. Then, eventually, there were no weekends at all. I guess she went for milk. I haven't seen her since I was 7, so maybe there's a milk shortage. When I was a little human I wondered what I did to make her leave because I wasn't jaded yet. Then, 9 years later, my dad told me he didn't love me, and I was no longer part of the family; he kicked me out, so I was homeless at 16. At least it taught me the valuable skill of breaking into empty apartments at night to get out of the weather. We reconciled somewhat when I went to Iraq, but after that, we didn't speak. Half his fault for not reaching out and half my fault because I was not right in the old noodle when I got back. I haven't talked to anyone in my family in 10 years including my my 2 brothers and 3 sisters. I heard my dad passed away in December. So there's that. I guess I'm playing life on hard mode, lol. I think it was the default setting, and I didn't change it. So this song hits home a little bit.
I went through this with my mom. Not because she was a drug addict but because she was unable to take care of 5 kids on her own. Before we were taken by the state she would take us to our aunt's and uncles houses and stay one night with us then be gone by the time we woke up the next morning. For months at a time she would leave us to "try to get ahead financially then she'll be back for us". One of the last times I tried to stay up all night so I could catch her and beg her to stay, but I fell asleep and I blamed myself for a long time... Finally the last time she took us to my aunt's and my aunt had CPS waiting for us. Me and my siblings were taken that day. It was crushing. But it made me who I am today. I'm a father of the beautiful little girl and I wouldn't leave her over night for anything. I will be the man (the father) I needed when I was little.
Thank you for sharing, my heart aches for little you, and is so proud of adult you who has taken a healing perspective and become a present parent. When you heal yourself, you help heal the world, because your babies will know love, stability and support. Much love to you and your little girl! 💜
It's funny how people make excuses for mothers but yet let the same situation be a father and everything is his fault and there is no understanding. Keep the energy the same no matter the gender.
I’m pretty good at the ol’ bottle it up and push it down. But this song kills me every single time. “Them pills got you” line hits like a truck, being so close to one of the last things 12 year old me said to my mom.
I personally don’t think you should jump to Mama. There’s a whole lot more he has been through which you’ll see on his journey that gets him to the mindset he has in Mama
I lost my mother to brest cancer in the peek of covid, we never had the beat of relationship we lost contact stopped was in and out of sesions for all dofferent reasons, a lady in the corner taking notes of me and that... we tried to fix it but it was too late, cancer got the better of her so now I'm stuck in limbo with unfinished business with her, they say time heal but in my case I gets worse as time passes, so I relate to this song alot some parts in different ways.... very hard song to listen to 😢
Sending you care as you accept and grieve, accept and grieve. It is so hard to grieve a possibly that cannot be when someone passes. Your relationship with her remains alive though, and you can still heal delightful human!
My dad left when I was born and when I was little my mom tried to commit suicide and me and my siblings lived with my grandma and grandpa for a few years while my mom was in the mental hospital when she was out of the hospital and she was able to take care of us we didn’t live in the best neighborhood and she would have to work multiple jobs just to afford rent and food for us. My childhood was very hard and traumatic so I feel NFs music. Your reaction was really good great reaction.
Very different relationship (really lack of) with my birth mother…but the pain resonates I never consciously wish for her presence or approval on anything I’ve done but do wonder at my baby boy having a grandparent or tradition. In successful and thriving out of foster system….but this hit a little different
You should do mama next it’s the sequel to this song. Mama comes years after one could you leave us but doesn’t spoil anything in the journey so should be a safe option and a must after this heartbreaking song, great reaction
Story of my life, foster care my entire life, mom never showing up, and when she did the lady was in the corner talking notes😢 she just died from Xanax just one more fuck you to the little girl in me
Please, please and again please DON‘T just skip right to mama. Take the journey through his albums, all songs are fitting on the right place and you‘ll just understand better why things had come this way how they came. It might change some ways, you seeing things and it goes brutal deep to the core 🖤. Pls be easy on me my english is not the best 🤫
How about kids with parents that just messed everything up. And we can't be mad about it.. thank God I'm older and learned a lot. Thank you don't know your name but thank you 😊
If you are going to continue the journey, do NOT skip to mama. This song really needs to sit with you for a while. Skipping to mama shows resolution too quickly. You’d be skipping through his years of life where his mom had a huge influence in his pain.
This was the first NF song i heard playing it in the living room while my mom and my step dad and all of there friends whent into the kitchen and did dr*gs i have 3 siblingd and my step dad is abuse of and my mom would hit us time to time i was listening to NF one day and my step dad walked in and said turn that sh*t off its to violent and i said no and he tried to take my phone but inwouldnt give it to himnso he called my mom and said tell him to turn it off he wont listen its to violent for a 7 year old and i said wanna talk about violent at your fist look at our faces and then he tried to take my phone i wouldnt let him so he beat me and then my mom said give me the phone and i said no and she tried to take it but i said ill call the cops for child abuse and theif and my step dad came up stairs and said who are they gonna belive a child or a adult and i said maybe they'll belive the bruises on our faces
A great reaction! Please react to Mama which is the follow up to this song from his new album Hope where he forgives his Mom! That is why on Hope he mentioned on the top of the mountain he forgave his mom and his son will not have to wait at the window wondering if Dad will ever come home!
what if they are there, but you're shut out as an adult you feel there is no coming back. So you just continue on the path of keeping to yourself cause you're so scared of attachment only because you're scared to lose it again?
i lost my dad july 27th and we found out that my girl friend was pregnet on augest 8th and we hade a girl and my dad always wanted a grand daughter and he died from an over dose
I think the most heart breaking part of the song was him saying "Them pills got you right?" The anger and sadness in his voice is the hardest part to deal with.
Im usually ok up until this exact part. It makes me break even when im not expecting it.
Ok
Fun fact;
If you noticed at the end he was crying bc he really was, he had told everyone in the studio to leave so he could have some alone time!
well that's not very fun at all
@dangkolache I couldn't get the right word when I was writing this comment ...
@@Tremend_ ´´fan´´ fact would be beter propably
After a year of listening to NF songs, I can finally not tear up when hearing this song. My dad was an alcoholic and died all alone with a bottle next to him. For most of my young life I had a hatred for him. He was verbally abusive. We did have reconciliation 4 months before he died, but it was still a trauma to me. I hated myself for the anger I had. This last year I've gotten into a support group and counciling. I thank God for ИF‼️💔❤️🩹❤️
NF - How could you leave us = the conflict
NF - Mama = The Resolution
The most painful, real, music video ever. This takes so much courage. NF is an amazing person
NF has a beautiful song with video about relationship with mum in his song "Happy".
highly recommend NF - Happy
Now you can go straight to reacting to mama
Hope and then Mama
Hope was their first NF reaction. But yes, if you skip to mama, you’ll see the progress he’s made through his journey.
YES, MAMA would be a great one to do next!
THIS
Or Happy.
Thank you for reacting to this and your warm words. I lost my father at 19 to suicide, I am now 48. It’s still there at times. I loved you warm and honest words, thank you.
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im sorry to hear that sir 😭
I just got to say, love your parents while they are here. I am 30 years old and in almost the exact same situation as this song. My mom has done hardcore drugs all her life, and has been in jail for pretty much all of mine. She has not passed, but she is now in a jail in Mexico, and I will not see her another day of her life. I have already lost my dad a few years ago to drugs and alcohol. "Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had?" It's tough man... it's tough
Seeing NF on May 8th, I am so excited to see him live. He is a great story teller, and unfortunately some of the beautiful music comes from the deepest pain and sorrow. Like he said, "Music is the only place I can go to speak to you." I feel that so much as a musician myself
Saw him this past august. Best night of my life. His songs actually get way better when you’re hearing them live😭
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Its been years since i first heard this song and it still breaks my heart. I relate to it so much i feel like i know how he felt growing up.
You will remember this one when you get to „mama“
Been waiting for you to do this one since you started your NF Journey, NF - Mama is a follow up to this song - great video!!
The song that brought me to NF.
Dang... You got me out here getting emotional watching your reaction keilani.. 😤😥😂💯
Thank you for being so real and honest. You are truly amazing! Just inspiring 🫶🏼✨🙌🏼
Now you have to react to Mama. Then his whole hope album. It is the definition of growth and healing.
What he has gone through. The things that have happened to him to get to the moment he is at right now.
This song still hits hard. I had to watch my younger cousins go through this with my aunt. Though she didn’t pass because of pills/ drugs, but liver cirrhosis due to alcoholism. Many people don’t understand what alcoholism does to a family. For the alcoholic, it’s all fun and games for them but devastating for the family they leave behind. They don’t understand how quickly and subtly it can go from “just fun” to an addiction. 😢. This kills me every time, because when my mother was working three jobs and my father was alcoholic, my aunt was a mother to my sisters and I. I remember being 13 and watching my aunt deteriorate in a hospital bed and when she was moved to hospice care. I remember being at a church softball game when we got the word that she had passed.
My older cousin went through the same thing with my uncle. It''ll be five years this year he's been gone. It was hard enough watching him deteriorate from a distance. Seeing it in real time like my cousin did is unimaginable to me.
This song is beautiful and in his new album the song mama he forgives his mom finally and it melts my heart
As someone who deals with issues from emotional neglect it always makes me happy to know there is kind souls who understand us out there. Thanks :)
Do not listen to these people telling you to just skip to Mama. It’s important to see the journey it took for him to get there. You will get to Mama at some point but continue the journey in order like you have. It’s all worth it in the end.
YES!!! I can’t wait!!!
my childhood was similar to NF and the line thats get me the most, (why do i feel like i lost something, i never had) i still dont understand how i miss her but honestly never had one
I have probably heard this song 100+ times. NF is my favorite artist out there right now. I found this journey in 2020 when my daughter died. I feel that people do not find NF's music. NF's music finds them when they need it. His mom passed away when he was 18. He is now 33 and is in a much better place of forgiveness and acceptance now. He said in an interview that he is showing her grace now even though she is no longer here physically.
Very good reaction to this! 👍🏼❣️
I can relate to his pain i lost a friend of mine that was Speical to me 7 months ago. I still miss them everyday and i hope no one has to go through this because it takes its toll on you and pushes you to your limits. And in some cases it pushes you past your limits and sometimes it doesnt end well.
I lost my mom when I was 13 due to domestic violence and drugs being involved. I had anger issues until about High School. Questioned life even before I knew who I was. Milestones hit me hard. She died on July 4th weekend, so every yr that's hard. Graduation, birthdays, breakups, new dates, reaching my goals at work, marriage to my wonderful wife, who has never met her, but my mom and her would have hit it off (only in my mind)
This song hit me like a freight train as all the emotion I have suppressed about it came out. His music, Mansion for example, has helped me open up to my lady - cuz I never knew the words to explain where my mind goes sometimes. I am introverted but my lady gets me to break free of the fear sometimes.
But this song hits more so now due to our first kid coming May 9th. A lil girl. And my won't be there to see her Grandchild. To spoil and tell me how I'm doing it wrong. Just her memorial pic w/ the poem I wrote framed and hanging above the recliner in the Nursery. It's hurts all the memories lost ... sad to think they were lost before they were possible. It's an empty feeling - empty
I’m so sorry for the deep loss of your mother and the trauma it’s caused. Becoming a parent has a way of bringing it all to the surface. Keep finding ways to soothe your soul, to honor her, and to keep on the path of healing. With all of the trauma my husband and I carry from childhood, I often pause to take a moment of gratitude that we get to do things differently for our children, we are not perfect, but we are always wanting to heal and be more self aware. I’m so grateful that you’ve found your wife in this big world, and I am thrilled for both of you to begin a new chapter!
💜K
@@delightfulpod Thank you for the kind words. All the loss I have felt in my life has instilled the feeling of "Life is short". Be present in the moment. But there are times of exhaustion of trying to be positive. For me it takes more of a conscious effort to be positive than others, if that make sense
Amazing reaction! There's is no more words to say. This song is just something that we can feel deep in our hearts. A big hug 🫂
What she's done so far
Hope ( introduction to ИF ) ✅️
Main songs from MANSION album ✅️
She's on album 2 Therapy session
INTRO 2 ✅️
Therapy Session ✅️
I just wanna know ✅️
How Could You Leave Us ✅️
Next song is Real 🙌 ( your gonna love this one )
When is "if you want love" Hope she didn't skip that one
@@tevonthemoney21 she's still on album 2 therapy session then comes album 3 which is perception album that has that song so she will get there
This is one of those songs that is tough to listen to, not because it's bad but because you can feel and hear how much emotion and how much of his heart was in this song. The ending portion of this song just gets me every time.
My mom left my dad and my brother and I when I was 12. Sometimes I'd talk to her, but for the most part I didn't want anything to do with her. Felt like she died to us almost essentially. She wanted to start her own new life, felt like we weren't good enough. My brother legit wont talk to her even still, 24 years later.
I started mending relationship, but I just struggled making myself vulnerable to her again. This song really does stir up those raw/original emotions I had when I was 12. I finally feel now that I am at peace with everything, but I'm lucky and that she is still alive.
NF has a new song you'll find in your journey that makes me relate to him even more now too, called Mama. Every week, I'll have a day of NF therapy and I 100% feel better after it each time.
Bro ive seen people react to this song a hundred times, still i tear up every single time. NF is a wizard.
Thank you again for another beautiful reaction and wonderful insights. I appreciate the time you take to really speak to the real life situations and topics that are attached to these songs. Please have a lovely day.
He asked his producers to leave the room and he sat there and cried and talked about what he would say to her at the end, that was all real
Make me cry every time makes me miss my mom so much 😢
I lost my mother when I was 7years this song it always make me miss her now I’m 27 but I never forget how she treated me. I hope one day I will meet her
Some might say to watch/listen to Mama after this, but I'd disagree. I think this is just part of seeing NF's journey through music, as he gets older his music will gradually change leading up to the moment you hear Mama. But that's just my 2 cents. Anyone can listen how they'd like. 😊
Raw emotion. Coming from a background with alot of abuse and addiction (addiction part is including myself) I just seem to understand the pain NF expresses. It is the hell that made him. His own personal hell and I can relate.
Great reaction. Keep em coming
You absolutely have to listen to “Mama” next! It doesn’t ruin the journey or anything. 7 years had passed between these two songs and NF is in a better place mentally. At the time he recorded “Mama” he had a son. And recently he now also has a daughter. It’s an awesome way to see how time changes perception. Please listen to this next! Can’t wait to watch!
I love seeing how ppl that only hear Hope, end Up going back to the beginning and doing the journey, I'm so jealous!!
This one always hits hardest.... Thanks for sharing some time and insight with us :)
Thank you. Just thank you.
Thank you for your reaction. 🙂 I enjoy hearing your point of view.
HCYLU is always a tough one. The good news (from an emotional standpoint) is that Real isn't the draining, emotional gut punch that this one is. Awesome reaction as always. I love your comments and your reflection on the human element. Blessings!
When i lost my mom i weeped to this song for hour's and hour's
My mom passed away 5 years ago from drugs and alcohol at 49 years old. This song hits me in the feels like no other song ive ever heard. Good video, i just subscribed.
This one Hurt but I knew it would i lost my dad to addiction when I was 16, this song always brings me to tears
I have watched just about every reaction to this song I can find on youtube, there are things that you picked out of this song that no one else(to my recollection) has picked up on, such as the fact that she will not be there for important milestones in his life and that he will continue to grieve the loss of those experiences. This loss and the fact that you picked up on it is especially meaningful to me because I lost my father in 2017 to some health issues caused directly by his nearly life long struggle with alcohol abuse and my mother has advanced stage alzheimers so even though shes still alive she will basically not have the same kind of relationship with my wife or kids that I had with my grandparents if she ever meets them at all. I am not married nor do I have kids and I have not acheived some very important goals that I am pursuing. Those are things I am still grieving the loss of their participation in. The fact that you recognized this is honestly very meaningful and moving to me. Thank you for this.
Pills wasn't my drug of choice, mine was alcohol. I was a severe alcoholic for months. I lost my son, and didn't wanna be sober without him. So I drank, almost died and almost lost my son for good. (Custody battle situation) I became the worst of myself in those several months. Got too drunk to worry about showering, I didn't care about eating, showering, etc. It took my stepmom telling me to not call my son until I could be sober for a week. I poured my alcohol down the sink and was finally able to call my son again. I have two years sobriety and I still get the memory posts on Snap of me at that time period. The pictures my friends took of me laying in a pool of my own vomit and other excrements as I am actively about to die, still makes me so sick to my stomach. I got better friends now, and I am so much happier. But even though I cleaned up my act, this song makes me so sad because I can't help but hear my son singing this song and crying during that time period, and every time I think about relapsing I play this song and imagine just how much it would hurt him if I relapse and start drinking again. My mama heart breaks for NF..
this song tears me apart. hes describing exactly my relationship with my mom who was super addicted to pills and then eventually meth and heroine and she had a heart attack in her sleep last month and ill never get to talk to her again
My daughter is experiencing this with her mom, but her mom does not have an addiction, but it feels like to my daughter. She is so disconnected from her mom. My daughter listens to this song. She says the lyrics about “Being in room with a stranger.” Her mom doesn’t know her. My daughter I have these talks. This breaks my heart because I never wanted a BROKEN family.
I loved this reaction. I know it's what you started with but I hope you add "Hope" into the journey again. Knowing the journey up to that song makes the song so much more meaningful.
This one is so deep 🙏🙏
Gosh ima grown man an this brings tear to my eyes and speaks my my abandonment issues with my mother to put so much raw emotion into a song nf this song hits hard in a deep place I’m better for this song thanks bro
As he said about his mom, my mom would be a no-show on the weekends. Then, eventually, there were no weekends at all. I guess she went for milk. I haven't seen her since I was 7, so maybe there's a milk shortage. When I was a little human I wondered what I did to make her leave because I wasn't jaded yet.
Then, 9 years later, my dad told me he didn't love me, and I was no longer part of the family; he kicked me out, so I was homeless at 16. At least it taught me the valuable skill of breaking into empty apartments at night to get out of the weather. We reconciled somewhat when I went to Iraq, but after that, we didn't speak. Half his fault for not reaching out and half my fault because I was not right in the old noodle when I got back. I haven't talked to anyone in my family in 10 years including my my 2 brothers and 3 sisters. I heard my dad passed away in December. So there's that. I guess I'm playing life on hard mode, lol. I think it was the default setting, and I didn't change it. So this song hits home a little bit.
I went through this with my mom. Not because she was a drug addict but because she was unable to take care of 5 kids on her own. Before we were taken by the state she would take us to our aunt's and uncles houses and stay one night with us then be gone by the time we woke up the next morning. For months at a time she would leave us to "try to get ahead financially then she'll be back for us". One of the last times I tried to stay up all night so I could catch her and beg her to stay, but I fell asleep and I blamed myself for a long time... Finally the last time she took us to my aunt's and my aunt had CPS waiting for us. Me and my siblings were taken that day. It was crushing. But it made me who I am today. I'm a father of the beautiful little girl and I wouldn't leave her over night for anything. I will be the man (the father) I needed when I was little.
Thank you for sharing, my heart aches for little you, and is so proud of adult you who has taken a healing perspective and become a present parent. When you heal yourself, you help heal the world, because your babies will know love, stability and support. Much love to you and your little girl! 💜
It's funny how people make excuses for mothers but yet let the same situation be a father and everything is his fault and there is no understanding. Keep the energy the same no matter the gender.
Why do you say that?
Love your reactions your amazing
I just ran across your channel from the suggestions. Whatever the next video means. I like how you break down the videos.
You can do so many of his songs they are all powerful
I’m pretty good at the ol’ bottle it up and push it down. But this song kills me every single time. “Them pills got you” line hits like a truck, being so close to one of the last things 12 year old me said to my mom.
I personally don’t think you should jump to Mama. There’s a whole lot more he has been through which you’ll see on his journey that gets him to the mindset he has in Mama
I lost my mother to brest cancer in the peek of covid, we never had the beat of relationship we lost contact stopped was in and out of sesions for all dofferent reasons, a lady in the corner taking notes of me and that... we tried to fix it but it was too late, cancer got the better of her so now I'm stuck in limbo with unfinished business with her, they say time heal but in my case I gets worse as time passes, so I relate to this song alot some parts in different ways.... very hard song to listen to 😢
Sending you care as you accept and grieve, accept and grieve. It is so hard to grieve a possibly that cannot be when someone passes. Your relationship with her remains alive though, and you can still heal delightful human!
I lost my dad to an od just in 2022 i start crying before the first line even finishes
My dad left when I was born and when I was little my mom tried to commit suicide and me and my siblings lived with my grandma and grandpa for a few years while my mom was in the mental hospital when she was out of the hospital and she was able to take care of us we didn’t live in the best neighborhood and she would have to work multiple jobs just to afford rent and food for us. My childhood was very hard and traumatic so I feel NFs music. Your reaction was really good great reaction.
Very different relationship (really lack of) with my birth mother…but the pain resonates I never consciously wish for her presence or approval on anything I’ve done but do wonder at my baby boy having a grandparent or tradition. In successful and thriving out of foster system….but this hit a little different
You should listen to atmosphere, his songs are beyond real.
I love that about 8:00 into this video she accidently talks about 'Happy'
I'M WITH YOU KIDDO
She’s gonna cry even more on mama 😢
I've lost my mom to alcohol.... Honestly I've lost most of my family recently... To where I've shut down completely
7:56 boy do i have a song for you.... ("Happy" NF)
ye u gotta do Mama straight after this one, it's growth on a whole other level!
You really need to listen to NF Happy 🙏🏼
You should do mama next it’s the sequel to this song. Mama comes years after one could you leave us but doesn’t spoil anything in the journey so should be a safe option and a must after this heartbreaking song, great reaction
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Let’s gooo
Story of my life, foster care my entire life, mom never showing up, and when she did the lady was in the corner talking notes😢 she just died from Xanax just one more fuck you to the little girl in me
there are a ton of kendrick lamar songs or just complete albums that im sure ppl would love to see you react to, including me
I loses so much when someone reacts after they have already seen it..
I film the intro after I’ve watched it.
Please, please and again please DON‘T just skip right to mama. Take the journey through his albums, all songs are fitting on the right place and you‘ll just understand better why things had come this way how they came.
It might change some ways, you seeing things and it goes brutal deep to the core 🖤.
Pls be easy on me my english is not the best 🤫
Cant wait until you get to "Happy" by NF.....and then "Chalk Outlines" by Ren ft. Chinchilla.....bring tissues for both
You need to react to REN - For Joe and then REN - the tale of Jenny and screech, I need to know your thoughts on them as a therapist!
Last Letter by Witt Lowry is just as hard hitting. Not the same as NF but as you put it is just as baffling.
How about kids with parents that just messed everything up. And we can't be mad about it.. thank God I'm older and learned a lot. Thank you don't know your name but thank you 😊
If you are going to continue the journey, do NOT skip to mama. This song really needs to sit with you for a while. Skipping to mama shows resolution too quickly. You’d be skipping through his years of life where his mom had a huge influence in his pain.
"mama" is kind of a sequel to this song
What is the hardest emotion to show? What emotion do we have in common that we don't want to show.
This was the first NF song i heard playing it in the living room while my mom and my step dad and all of there friends whent into the kitchen and did dr*gs i have 3 siblingd and my step dad is abuse of and my mom would hit us time to time i was listening to NF one day and my step dad walked in and said turn that sh*t off its to violent and i said no and he tried to take my phone but inwouldnt give it to himnso he called my mom and said tell him to turn it off he wont listen its to violent for a 7 year old and i said wanna talk about violent at your fist look at our faces and then he tried to take my phone i wouldnt let him so he beat me and then my mom said give me the phone and i said no and she tried to take it but i said ill call the cops for child abuse and theif and my step dad came up stairs and said who are they gonna belive a child or a adult and i said maybe they'll belive the bruises on our faces
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A great reaction! Please react to Mama which is the follow up to this song from his new album Hope where he forgives his Mom! That is why on Hope he mentioned on the top of the mountain he forgave his mom and his son will not have to wait at the window wondering if Dad will ever come home!
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Yeah... she's gonna cry lol.
what if they are there, but you're shut out as an adult you feel there is no coming back. So you just continue on the path of keeping to yourself cause you're so scared of attachment only because you're scared to lose it again?
♥ ♥ ♥ Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
i lost my dad july 27th and we found out that my girl friend was pregnet on augest 8th and we hade a girl and my dad always wanted a grand daughter and he died from an over dose
Who's the lady in the room taking notes ?
Can you check out Eminem deja vu it’s about his drug addiction and what his life was like
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Whats the order of his journey to listen ti his songs
I'm here for this😊
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That was an amazing reaction, thank you. I agree with people below, watching Mama would be good to see him get the closure he needed.