Depression and mental health issues have been gaining more public attention, particularly due to a string of mass shootings in 2015. It’s also something Hip Hop hasn’t addressed as much during the last few years.
Angel Haze wants to change that as she recently penned a piece with Noisey on the subject. During the Op-Ed, the Detroit native relays that teenage depression is a major problem and often times those who are depressed don’t show it to others.
“Teenage depression is becoming an epidemic,” she wrote. “So many fans have written to me about self-harming and anorexia. Read the Twitters read the Tumblrs, see the messed up thoughts that go on in this generation. Yet at the same time, music has become relentlessly upbeat, with things like ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Timber.’ It’s like going to church and watching the pastor preaching about how God is going to make your life better if you just pray to him and then going home and praying and seeing nothing happening. It feels like you’re in an environment where everyone’s going ‘yaaaaaaay’ and you feel like ‘Holy shit my life could actually change, I’m happy right now, this is great I’m gonna go home and apply this’ and nothing happens. It’s very much a social thing, you go out to clubs you have a fucking blast with your friends, then you go home and fucking hate yourself.”
Haze also drew a parallel between fame and depression and says that people knowing who you are doesn’t change the fact that one may still be struggling with internal issues.
“A lot of people think that fame is a cure for depression,” she explained. “Everybody wants to be like the stars and half the time the stars don’t even want to be themselves, You have to look at like the drug stories, the Whitneys, all those people that are so severely unhappy that they wake up everyday depending on a substance to keep them alive. I mean I look at my friends and they’re all suffering from depression. In the past three years, three of my friends have attempted suicide.”
Angel Haze released her most recent Back to the Woods project last month. HipHopDX spoke with her at the time as she explained how it came together and why she worked exclusively with TK. Kayembe for it.
This chic is not attractive whatsoever looks like a skinny 14 year old boy and her whole style is kinda corny. She’s a weirdo
Her music is actually decent tho
Is there anyone who writes here anymore?
Weirdos are cool!
She’s a lesbian anyway.
Actually depression is part of growing up…..please don’t start another psuedo viral revolution…respect tho
Depression is a state of mind. Depression is seeing things very realistically and soberly. If your life/health is fucked up then depression is a natural thing which occur immediately. Poppin’ antidepressants/antipsychotics ain’t healthy, too many side effects. And since you visit psychiatrists it’s over for you, since then you are labeled as psycho or crazy/insane in eyes of healthy society. It’s hard to prove yourself if you was at psych ward. I rather die than live in a shame. Sometimes things can change in life but sometimes they can’t. Stay alive and suffer or die and end that misery, pain, shame and hopelessness. Choice iz Yourz! #NowPlaying Biggie – Suicidal Thoughts
Depression is a DAILY struggle; it takes hard work to overcome it but there is hope. For anyone suffering from depression, I recommend the Destroy Depression system. Written by James Gordon, a former depression & PTSD sufferer, it teaches 7 natural steps which he used to cure his own depression and has helped thousands.
euthanasia it’s what humanity really needs.
Hey I’m a depressed person I have cut and took overdoses of mess cN anyone help me pleas?