Tee Grizzley Reveals Why He Doesn’t Drink Or Do Drugs

Tee Grizzley Says His Mother’s Sentencing Had A Major Impact On His Sobriety

While the Hip Hop scene seems to be filled with drugs addicts and alcohol abusers, with lyrics encouraging the act, there are still some rappers who don’t fall in that category and one of them is Tee Grizzley.

Grizzley discussed his sober lifestyle and explained his reasoning for avoiding these types of vices with Ebro on a virtual interview via Apple Music.

“All the older people drinking, they was abusive, the younger people that was drinking, they was too drunk and got killed at a club,” he explained. “People that was smoking, they fell asleep at the light with drugs on ’em and got locked up. So I always looked at it like y’all need to stay away from that.”

The rapper who’s fresh off releasing his mixtape “The Smartest” revealed that watching his mother be sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2011 for drug trafficking had a major impact on his decision to stay sober. The rapper touches on this difficult experience on his 2019 song, “Locked Up.”

According to HipHopDX, Tee also shared that he was delighted to have Big Sean on his mixtape. “It means everything to me,” he said of Sean’s contribution on the song, “Trenches.”

“It’s another one of those stamps that you need. If you from Detroit and you going crazy, you gotta have a song with Big Sean.”