“Since I heard that Tricia was pregnant, I was like, I need to grow up right now,” he said, adding that yoga, meditation, journaling and meetings have helped him out of his relapse. Macklemore says it was his fiancee’s pregnancy, which the couple announced in January, that pushed him to get clean once again. That’s the question that seems to animate Growing Up (Sloane’s Song), a deeply sensitive ditty from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis that appeared online Wednesday.
Straight up, driving all around here, like I was 15 years ago,” he told the magazine. Macklemore opens up to MTV News about how learning that he was going to be a dad inspired his new song Growing Up (Sloanes Song).Subscribe to MTV: http://. "I'm in meetings with management with sunglasses on and I'm rolling around like a 15-year-old trying not to get caught smoking weed in my car. Hip-hop, he said, was my means of trying to figure out who I am, and to figure out my truth, and look at society and get closer to a connection to something much bigger. The rapper, also known as Ben Haggerty, told Complex that when he started abusing sleeping pills and marijuana last year, work on his and Lewis’s next record came to a halt. In a 2016 interview with Apple Music, Seattle rapper Macklemore recounted the moment when, at age 17, he realized his life’s true calling. "For me, what is a temptation is coming home off of the road, which is why this time period is interesting," Macklemore told ABC News in an interview that aired Jan.