NF Releases The Search

Sticking in the rap vein: NF dropped The Search, his 4th album in as many years.

If you told me that NF was Eminem reincarnate I would absolute buy it. Another product of Michigan, this guy also did not have an easy childhood. His parents divorced when he was young and he lived with his mom until his dad had to pull him out of the house after her boyfriend abused him (she eventually died of an overdose while Nate was in high school).

His deeply personal lyrics are on full display in this album, rapping openly about his struggles with depression, anxiety, and OCD. On Leave Me Alone, he talks about how he won’t even hang his platinum records because he doesn’t feel he deserves them:

I went from nobody to kinda famous
Hide my plaques inside the closet, I just can’t explain it
My wife, she tells me that she’s proud and thinks that I should hang ’em
But I just leave ’em on the ground right next to my self-hatred.

Fortunately, he’s got an incredible support system in his wife who actually hung the records herself while he was out of the house to show him how proud she is of his accomplishments (h/t @juliabshaffer for the feels).