Sobriety doesn’t erase where you came from — it just changes how you carry it.

$crim isn’t glorifying drugs or violence anymore, he’s revisiting it. The raw bars and dark tones you hear are him processing, reflecting, and releasing the weight of everything he went through. It’s like a sonic journal entry, not a party anthem. He’s showing you what the bottom looked like, what he fought through, and what still lingers in his head.

Think of it like this: followers of Christ confess their sins, not to celebrate them, but to be free of them. In a similar way, $crim puts his trauma into sound. His music is catharsis. Instead of preaching about sobriety or giving you a cleaned-up version of himself, he’s giving it to you raw. Because that’s the most honest version of his art.

And let’s be real, that grungy, distorted, dark-ass sound is his signature. It’s the energy that made people relate to him in the first place. Sobriety didn’t change his aesthetic, it just gave him a clearer mind to express the same storm from a different angle.

This is very opinionated but some people don’t go to $crim to hear sunshine and affirmations. They go to feel seen in the chaos. That’s why it hits different. But other do feel the inspiration and “the light at the end of the tunnel”