Joyner Lucas ft. Jelly Roll - "Best For Me" Official Music Video (Not Now I'm Busy) Reaction 

I believe it is a disease, but like any other disease it’s my choice to treat it. 8 years in recovery in 4 days ❤

My best friend died at 46 from addiction. When she died her pain didn’t end, it just spread to all of us who loved her 😢

Joyner and Jelly killed this!

I’ve been clean for almost six years now from the needle. I literally lost everything. Family, friends, house, vehicle, etc. Everything. Deep depression drove me to try it and I was gone immediately. My wife I and now own our first home, a brand new vehicle and we have good jobs. We’ve literally busted our asses to achieve these things. It may seem like you can’t get out of the life, but if we can you can. We were deep into it. Our one lifeline was that my mom and stepdad gave us their camper and said make the payments and you can live in this. So we did. Saved every dollar we could and we almost slipped so many times but we had each other’s backs no matter what. We’ve been together for almost ten years come May. Keep your heads up and keep it pushing.

Addiction is a disease that stems from choices. But like any disease, you've got to fight for recovery and many people (in my life) with addiction ride the 'it's a disease so I can't do anything about it' thought process

I have a decade of sobriety this November and I respectfully disagree that addiction is not a disease. I absolutely believe it is. Just like ptsd is a response from trauma its similar to addiction i feel.

My mother relapsed recently. The second verse sounds just like her. The first verse is my story. As a type 1 diabetic daughter of addicts, I cannot accept the *excuse* that its a disease. I did not choose for my pancreas to fail and almost kill me when I was six. I could choose not to use my insulin or test my sugar or eat well-- like they choose to pick up their substance-- but NO ONE will ever give me the sympathetic excuse that its a disease I cant control-- even if thats true. I do not get a pass to not take care of myself and my problems. Doctors have never just accepted me failing. Neither have my family, all addicts and hypocrites. Its not a good excuse. They still have autonomy, unless they *choose* to agree with the addiction.

I relate so much with the first half of the hook, and you're so right, Jelly Roll was the perfect person to sing it. Thankfully I've never had to watch a loved one go through an addiction, but I have had to lose someone I thought would always be there. We'd been in each other's lives since age four. It literally broke me. She was my anchor. You never truly appreciate what you have until it's gone. I'm in a much better place now, and that's in no small part to amazing human beings like you Duane, who put themselves out there making connections with people you've never even met. Amazing humans that just happen to be reactors. Appreciate you homie. Always going to be a part of Duane Gang 👊🏾

As an ex addict, you put it perfectly... When I was still addicted I loved the whole "it's a disease" argument because I felt like it wasn't my fault or responsibility to get better... But now years having passed, it's ALWAYS on us as individuals & it's always our responsibility to pave our own path. & Sometimes we introduce the very DEMONS that we need to destroy so that we can become who we need to be, & sometimes we don't win that fight. In any case good analysis & God bless all of us on this earth, help when we can & don't hurt anyone if we can't 🌍❤🙏🏻😌

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The co star in this music video is Mic Devine. He wrote a song called "Way Down We Go". He dedicated it to his friend Dave who he lost to a OD. So the emotions he shows in this music video isn't acting. It's him showing his real emotions he went thru for the loss of his friend. I love how Joyner always gives both perspectives in his songs. Joyner, NF and Tupac are the few who take you on a relatable journey thru their music. Idk about yall but IMO that is what makes musicians real artists. Like a painter and a art brush. Giving you vivid images when you hear the lyrics. They're among the few that gives me chills, make me cry and have me feel their songs deep in my soul. Most music these days is garbage. Talking nothing but money, cars, clothes, hoes, gang banging, being cheaters, liars, killers etc. A member of Bone Thugs n Harmony talked of a closed door meeting where NDA had to be signed before walking in the room... he said there was owners of prisons who wanted them to include more talk of drug dealing, using, stealing, guns etc in their songs so they can influence the youth so their prisons would fill up and in turn they'd make a bunch of money being privately owned establishments....aka prisons. I'm glad he came out n talked about it. Unfortunately the youth aren't paying attention to know that they're being set up to fail listening to garbage like that.

Mentioned every introduction to addiction other than the biggest one. The medical field/big pharma. Not every situation was a decision to do drugs

watched all of your joyner video's today. Keep it up my man love the content!

Two sides to every story that's why I love Joyner's story telling he tells both sides.

As someone that struggles with being compulsive i feel you on that addictive personality thing. Im pretty sure if i ever did hard drugs i wouldn't be able to get out either.

Joyner and jelly are close friends

I feel you on that

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Its almost like this song was written for me. I have to many addictions and its so hard to quit. This song is inspiring. I do want to quit but dang its so hard.

This is what Joyner does better than anyone else... According to the DSM5 its a disease. Opioids put your dopamine up in 80 and 90 percentile, and do it exclusively in the reward center of the brain, naturally it can't get into the 40's, and that's the part of the brain that makes a penguin balance an egg on its feet in the middle of the artic and take hikes to the ocean to feed a chic it won't know in a year, in other words it's what makes you do whatever benefits the survival of your species, which is why your brain does change on them, and why it punishes you so hard when you don't take them and rewards you when you do, and why it becomes the most important thing in the world to them, cause while as a human they intellectually know it's bad for them, on a biological level their brain believes it's the most important thing they could possibly do. On top of that they don't bind tightly to mu receptors so they move around and wear your receptors out and you need more and more to engage them, which is why their tolerance ends up where what would kill a non addict they need just to not withdrawl, and why many end up on the cheaper options like heroine. 0ver 98 percent of heroin addicts started on prescription pills, many for legitimate reasons, I like to think of addiction like diabetes, some get it regardless but most in this country eat themselves into having it, and needing insulin not to die, that doesn't mean diabetes isn't a disease regardless of how whoever ended up where they're at... Sorry for the novel

Gr8 track, moments like did Dat changes ur perspective.Hope 4 d hopeless, strength 4 dos tired.Li8 there at D end of Dat dark tunnel....

This is painful..i used to chase my mother around various drug houses around the bay area in Oakland Cali thinking i could save her..many of days i would beat on doors knowing she was behind them but dudes with guns would run me off..i had no power at the age of 15 to protect her. Just typing this made me cry and im now the age of 48 and though i placed those memories in the back of my head never to be remembered this video placed me back in that time. Jelly Roll verse is literally what i had to do.This song is a gift and a curse. Shout out from west monroe la. I thought i had escaped those memories... but clearly i have not... via this song.

From someone else's comment on another review video - The guy playing the "Junkie" is my fiancés good friend Mic DeVine. They all grew up together rapping in Worcester, MA with Joyner. Mic wrote/made the video that inspired this song, which is why he was in the video. Mic is an AMAZING rapper, and would be Forever grateful if you could give it a listen, & maybe even react to it. If this got you choked up, then Mic DeVines 'Way Down We Go' will destroy you. (It's dedicated to one of our friends, Dave Fournier, who lost battle with his addiction.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_8TcfQriKu4.htmlsi=7N6-TeQODxSjfq3x

I lose some friends… and now I became them… So that’s why this song is so deep to me… cause I see both side…

You can thank Eminem for inspiring jelly roll and joyner lucas. Its beautiful that he sparked their potential. Collicchee is your dude, gotta check him out. Strangers at my funeral. While i don't support addiction if it was that simple it wouldn't exist.

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Calling it a disease doesn't excuse anything... we still hope if not, expect our friends and family members who suffer from cancer or any other disease to see Dr's, get treatment, and do what they can to get better .... the difference being we give understanding when not every day is a good day, we stick by them, support them, hold their hair when their sick, a cold cloth on their forehead when fevered... if we showed that same level of support; not this whole enabling it and excusing everything bs that's been happening more and more (and as a Canadian believe me I'm all too aware of how incredibly dangerous so called safe sites and supply truly are).. we don't walk away from the women we love whos going through her 3rd round of chemo ... yrs of laying out in the sun having caused a melanoma the size of a small plate attach itself like its the dark shadow of the devil on her sholder... we dont walk away from the grandfather unable to catch his breath long enough to say goodbye as the 70yrs of smoking claim all the other words you will now never get to hear... instead we do everything we can in hopes of gaining whatever time we can... making the best of the days their bad decisions haven't stolen yet... if we showed the same support and consistency towards actually getting better.... the lives we'd safe... the memories we'd gain... the pain we'd alleviate... would be everything Much love and mad respect to all those who haven't given up... hope, strength and love to those still trying to try❤️❤️ I promise no matter which side of the coin your on, the answers to Jelly's question are the same..

Ive been dropping this comment on every one of these reactions because i feel people need to see it. I was addicted to fentanyl for almost 7 years but june 12 will be my 2 years clean. It was a hell of a fucking road and it took me multiple tries before i finally figured it out. But here i am. Now im in the process of becoming a Certified Recovery Specialist that way i can help people that are in the shoes i once was. For anybody who might come on this video and might be struggling with addiction please remember that youre bigger than this and you can overcome it! It takes alot of work and dedication but i promise you if you put in the work happiness is on the horizon! #WeDoRecover

I think its both a choice and a disease, and I have reasons to back it up. With a disease, you often dont have a choice of whether or not you get it. This isnt the case with drugs. The addiction starts as a choice, as it what you do from it. That said, some people are genetically more susceptible to becoming addicted than others sinply based off genes. This is where the disease aspect comes in. The choice to start is just that, a choice, but once you're in it its both a disease form the genes on hoe easy it is to get out of, and a disease on how addictive drugs make the homeostasis point of your body change to relying on that high, that feel, those chemicals, to be at a point where its comfortable. You change your set point when you get addicted, and your body tries to fight to keep it there when you want to try to change it because the addictive nature of drugs and how it affects your brain (always chasing that high it gave you the first time). As a biology major and someone whos lost a few people in my family to alcohol addiction, this is what made me want to become a M.D. and work on helping people and trying to change the drug industry. But yeah. Thats why i think its a mixture of both

As someone who was addicted and overdosed 5 times. Addiction is a choice. You consciously make the decision everyday to get high. Cancer and diabetes are diseases. Like he said they’re “excuses”

All my friends are dead, in jail or one their way to one or the other🥺 I have lost 153 friends, family members, classmates and co-workers in the last 7yrs 🙏🕊🙏 may all those we've lost be forever loved and never forgotten ❤️

Come on guys all these s comments and only 64 likes. Come on here Help this guy out hit that like buton.

its has genetic companents. and if child suffers trauma. then a a bad recepie. now im 50, and been mostly sober. but not that past 2 years and im bopalar. i slept way too little partied, and just knew this wasnt a fun thing anymore. im mid key a total mess. where i live, people dont ask how you are. and now im alone in europe. just 2 much at ones. thank god i dont like opiates

I thought he said “ not everyone is perfect not even Juice” I thought he meant Juice Wrld considering the topic of the song

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I’ve always have looked at my addictive personality as an affliction not a disease. Ultimately, success, freedom from a destructive addiction is the answer. If you know you’re addictive, find a healthy one. In my opinion, giving us addicts an excuse is unhealthy. I want to be addicted to God and broccoli. But understand, you will isolate those who love you. They cannot walk your road

U don’t really choose it. U dont even realize your in it til you’re in it then you’re stuck. U can make it out for sure. But they don’t choose it. Nobody does. Saying that it’s a disease is not an excuse. Even though I believe it is a disease, it’s not an excuse either.

It’s a choice. I chose painkillers until my husband gave me a choice, him or the pills. I chose him 20 years ago. It wasn’t easy, but I came out on the other side of it.

It's so silly to think that people choose to be addicted. That is the opposite of the meaning, also some things are way more addictive. It's either a conscious choice or it is a disease, it can't be both.

Wait so if someone smokes and gets cancer does that mean that because they chose to smoke their cancer isn’t truly a disease? Are there some cancers that get classified as disease and others that are choices? Interesting outlook. And AIDS too right? The way ppl look at addiction is the way that people looked at AIDS for a long time. “Devious behaviors” got you caught up in that so it’s your fault. I don’t hold people on their feelings on addiction but the science is there and it’s been there guess it’ll just take time for society to catch up. I also find it interesting that everyone and their momma has an opinion on the whys and how’s of people who struggle with addiction but any other illness they’d never question or dismiss another’s suffering at the hands of.

Bro, if I had a girl who broke up with her boyfriend ex boyfriend and they checked in with each other every year he can just have her😂

Opioid crisis

It's a disease. Diseases spread. Addiction leads to sorrow.

You say it's a choice. Please explain to me when people are being sex trafficked and they are forced literally even by being held down when their captors put them on drugs to keep control over them. Or when someone who has a simple injury and let's say they take or given prescription drugs to numb the pain until your better and not realizing your addicted to pain killers. NO ONE WAKES UP ONE DAY AFTER TAKING A SHOWER OR BATH WITH A CUP OF COFFE BEFORE LEAVING THEIR HOME AND SAY LET ALONE MAKE A DECISION TO BECOME AN ADDICT. By the time one realize their an addict it has already taken over them. EVERYONE is addicted to something even if it's something as simple as one having a cup of coffee or tea in the evert morning. Other examples could be from chocolate to gaming or social media. Not everyones addiction is drugs or alcohol. Not every reason is due to a bad upbringing or hanging around the wrong crowd. Countless people walk by what they always assume are homeless people but judge them and call them bums (which I hate), if they ask for money. Not realizing or even having the mindset or even knowing your living the life your able to live because they served in the military to protect the very freedom you have.They are suffering from PTSD. Think about that for a minute. They all don't wear uniforms. And make no mistake even some that do are addicts themselves, just able to hide theirs better than others. There are countless examples and people who tend to judge or feel they have all the answers just because they have never been there. There are two sides to every story. And yes I come from a military family and know the damage it can do. Serving comes in different ways. It's not always the ones in war. Forgive me for not knowing the other man/rapper in this song who is addicted to drugs, what looks like pills. He says something very important how do YOU know what God's plans are for me? Have you ever heard of counselors who were former addicts and now they are helping to save lives. We all have to have a test to have a testimony. Don't think addicts in general don't want help or they enjoy living their lives like this. They don't enjoy it but are happy to get it somehow someway because it numbs the pain, be it mental, emotional or physical. I speak from experience to my addiction to alcohol. I was what you call a functional addict. I worked and went to college. Had a great social life but an addict. I started my day drinking vodka and Pepsi to hide it. At lunch I drank straight vodka and drank anything with alcohol in it when I went out with my friends. I drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney with no one knowing except the smoking for years. I had a high tolerance for alcohol not liquor, there is a difference. Yet I am currently trying to quit smoking. And yes some drugs you take you take because it controls a disease with no cure through no fault of your own. I live with Epilepsy and take pills (12) to be exact everyday because if I don't I will have seizures with the possibility of going into an epileptic coma and die. Just somethings to educate you on if you read this. Btw go back to Knoxx Hill song with Crooked and really listen to his second verse. He is telling you his regrets. Now listen to his reaction to this song and how he shares his cousin story briefly. He didn't die because he wasn't loved or cared for by Knoxx. He died because those demons came up again but unfortunately it cost him his life. I love how knoxx said there's nothing wrong with you (addicts). Just family if one has any or friends need to have patience, empathy and compassion.Even if you don't have any of that always know where there is a will there is a way even if you walk that line alone. I will add to Knoxx message be willing to listen and not judge or preach every single time. Something as simple as having a meal and laughing about good times. You would be surprised on how that goes a long way with someone trying to get help. As I end this novel of a comment and my apologies for it being this long, but addiction is a disease because it has no cure!!! Countless people are addicted to the drug itself not the mindset. It can and does alter people's behavior and lifestyle. It can cost them family and friends.They can fall back anytime despite how much time they have with their sobriety. And for many it costs them their life. My rock bottom was me trying to commit suicide not once but twice. I was blessed to have faith, family and friends in my corner. Whatever vice it is, it has become a comfort zone to ease the pain in this thing we call life. Prayers up to those addicted, to those trying to get clean and for those who are in their sobriety and fighting everyday to keep it. Thank you all for reading this.

I've watched this reaction a few times because youtube keeps auto playing this same exact video after I watch one of your others. Not a different reaction I haven't watched, just this one, over and over and over again. This time it's unliked. Even though I liked it to begin with. RU-vid needs to fix this random unsubscribe and unlike shit.