A first-person monologue by Worldwide Ty describing how immersion in the music industry made them recognize anxiety they had not previously labeled. The speaker compares those feelings to experiences in sports and recounts childhood observations of crack’s damage to Black communities in Atlanta, which shaped their conflation of cocaine and crack and their aversion to using drugs.
Yeah. No, because I never known about. I never even was understood anxiety until I started, like, really moving around deeper into the music business. I ain't know about anxiety. When I was playing sports, I feel the same way. Like, that. Like, it's something. Like, it's things that you're aware of. Yeah, that. Like all the hard drugs and shit like that. Like, when I be seeing black people do cocaine, I be like, that's crack. Ain't no motherfucking go gang, nigga. That's crack. You a crack baby. Like, because in my brain, that's what you. When you grow up and you see what crack did to black communities, right? You don't think about cocaine. You think about crack, right? Heads. I got uncles, and you know what I'm saying? Like, you see crackheads in south side, on the west side, West End, like, growing up in Atlanta. So I'm like, I'm not putting that shit in my body. That's a crackhead.
