Pharoahe Monch upcoming album P.T.S.D. has a deeper meaning to it than just an album title. This album goes into depth and covers of mental issues and depression. Monch wanted to share with fans how these problems affects him, his views on mental issues and how the urban community deals with depression.
His album was named after a disorder that is not far from being uncommon. One recent artist affected by it was multi-talented artist Chris Brown, who was recently diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder during his stay at an anger management rehabilitation center.
In an interview with VLad TV, Monch shared why he decided to use P.T.S.D. as his album title.
“I felt it was only right to follow up the W.A.R. album with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but not only—This is some popular phrase that’s on the tip of the tongue of the president,” he said. “Or from a social standpoint, but to really delve into true issues and make it a difficult thing to do. And get introspective in terms of where I’m at emotionally. Dealing with depression and the past as well as really being vulnerable on the record. And I felt it would have been wack if we titled it that and I didn’t really dig deep into some issues dealing with, you know, just society and how we deal with that in the hood. And as well as personal issues.”
He also shared his personal experience in dealing with depression. He explained how medications were not working for him and only landed him on hospital beds.
“I’m pulling from my past dealing with a couple of stints in the hospital,” Pharoahe Monch said. “Really bad stints in the hospital with the asthma. And I had been heavily medicated. And when I got out I was feeling like after-effects of the medication and side-effects of the medication I should say. And it really had me fucked up and spiraling downward. And the ill thing about it was I couldn’t figure out—I didn’t know at the time that it was the medicine side-effects. I’m just dealing with the issues just trying to process normal information and I couldn’t really process it. And that had me like crazy. As well as what I put on the record is when I confronted people like ‘Yo, I’m really doing bad. I’m fucked up right now.’ Cats were like ‘Yo, smoke this blunt. Have a beer, shit.’ So, at that time it really wasn’t like it is right now where you hear people talking about issues readily in the public.”
P.T.S.D. is set to release on April 15, 2014.
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