18 Top Sober Musicians You’ll Want To Put On Repeat

The finger-wagging judgment on “Once an Addict”—one of the only songs where J. Cole takes a break from conceptualizing his friends’ lives and careers to allow insight into his own upbringing and family—finds him admonishing his mother for drinking during her husband’s infidelity. His glaring narcissism seeps through the cracks, an ironic lack of empathy…