Health

“One side of my family is from Sudan, one side of my family is from Washington, DC. So I grew up experiencing two cultures that mental illness was kind of… something they would love to pretend didn’t exist.” DMV rapper and producer Oddisee sits down with SoulCulture to discuss cultural and family attitudes to mental [...]

Continuing our Mental Health awareness campaign #OKNotToBeOK, we sat down with Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Chrisette Michele to discuss the effect changing her diet had on her mental health, keeping a journal, the effect the creation and release of her Audrey Hepburn: An Audiovisual Presentation mixtape had on her emotions and the importance of art [...]

On January 16, 2013 my mother committed suicide. She was 55 years old, just two months shy of her 56th birthday. The suicide was her second attempt in three months following an eleven-month illness that several physicians and specialists failed to correctly diagnosis until eight weeks before her more successful suicide. While her physical illness [...]

In June of 2010, I was scheduled to interview two artist friends of mine on camera on a rooftop in SoHo. The morning of the shoot, I went to the gym to run like I did every other morning before that day. I pulled my hamstring on the elliptical; it hurt, but it didn’t disable [...]

If you are a depressed artist, the following may be helpful. Conversely, if you are not depressed then, I would imagine, you are either not an artist or are a fortunate exception. [...]

Soul Culture sits down with Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T for our ongoing #OKNotToBeOK mental health campaign, as he speaks on music as therapy, loneliness, depression and finally making the decision to be happy. [...]

I know I’m not the only one with trouble resting. I’m not sleeping at night. I take naps, mostly. I see the postings on social networking at all hours in different time zones where people display their tosses and turns. We’re blurting out different levels of stress, we’re trying to figure out why we are [...]

It’s an amazing thing that I found music, man…” Following on from Ne-Yo’s talk on the therapeutic power of music, chart-topping British rapper Wretch 32 sits down with SoulCulture and reveals how he uses music as a portal to express himself, for our #OKNotToBeOk mental health campaign. [...]

So here’s the thing: I get down pretty often. Only thing is, I don’t always notice it, in the same way that if you’re running very fast on a cold day then you don’t feel the chill. I get down about a lot of things, if I’m honest: about work that doesn’t go as well [...]

“The therapeutic power of music is the reason that I do music in the first place,” R&B star Ne-Yo tells SoulCulture as we launch OK NOT TO BE OK – a campaign to raise and spread awareness and support for the mental health of our generation. [...]