{"id":268661,"date":"2019-03-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1019872"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:00:00","slug":"macklemore-gets-a-touching-message-about-new-music-from-a-late-friend-who-overdosed-on-hollywood-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/macklemore-gets-a-touching-message-about-new-music-from-a-late-friend-who-overdosed-on-hollywood-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklemore Gets a Touching Message About New Music From a Late Friend Who Overdosed on Hollywood Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201921\/rs_600x600-190301104250-mackle.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.047566371681\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.488938053097\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/macklemore\">Macklemore<\/a><\/strong> is getting a musical message from the other side.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday&#8217;s new episode of\u00a0<em>Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry<\/em>, the Grammy-winning rapper gets a reading he&#8217;ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am curious if there&#8217;s anything coming from any one of my friends that has passed,&#8221; the &#8220;Glorious&#8221; crooner asks <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tyler_henry\">Tyler Henry<\/a><\/strong> is this preview clip.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler immediately connects to the spirit of a young man plagued by substance abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This person didn&#8217;t necessarily take more than they were used to,&#8221; Tyler says. &#8220;There&#8217;s something weird because I feel like before [they passed] there had been this period where they hadn&#8217;t abused drugs and their tolerance went down. And there&#8217;s this feeling of well\u00a0this old amount I would have been fine with but my body&#8217;s tolerance went down in some capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyler assure Macklemore the man didn&#8217;t mean to kill himself but was triggered by someone else, leading to the relapse.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>Macklemore confirms he knows exactly who Tyler is talking about: a childhood friend named <strong>Kevin<\/strong> who the music star reconnected with in recovery before his death. &#8220;He had very intense anxiety and it often lead him back to relapse,&#8221; Macklemore revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As odd as this sounds, he&#8217;s showing me music and he&#8217;s showing me an arrow, which always\u00a0references to the future. He&#8217;s not done, he says. It could mean that what he wasn&#8217;t able to achieve here, he feels like he&#8217;ll see symbolically, that other people will do in his honor or in his legacy,&#8221; Tyler tells the rapper.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>Once again, Tyler is spot on with his reading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wanted to be a rapper and I was like, &#8216;If you can get a week sober, you can come to the studio and record,'&#8221; Macklemore said. &#8220;And he got a week and we went to the studio and he recorded four songs and he was just super pumped. It was like this celebratory moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a phone call from his sister the next day,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He had, as you said, his tolerance was at a certain point, he got seven days sober so his tolerance\u00a0went to another point. I think that he took the same amount of drugs that he normally would take and he overdosed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just hearing that he wanted that music to come out, it was very much like him,&#8221; Macklemore confessed. &#8220;Like I have a song named after him but I can see him being like, &#8216;Man, you better put out my music.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See Macklemore reflect on Kevin&#8217;s musical message in the clip above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <em>Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry<\/em> Thursday at 8 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.46875\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.5416666666667\">\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at 1-800-662-HELP (4357)\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/find-help\/national-helpline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1019872\/macklemore-gets-a-touching-message-about-new-music-from-a-late-friend-who-overdosed-on-hollywood-medium?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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