Hip-Hop Has Always Addressed Mental Health, And These Songs Prove It

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“See, to live, is to suffer—but to survive, is to find meaning in the suffering.”

I first heard DMX speak those words in November of 1998. “Slippin’” was the lead single off of his sophomore album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, and it carried a powerful message, for me, at least. It was a song about

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