Kendrick Lamar
Lamar has been rocketing up the hip-hop totem pole, and fans celebrate his complex rhyme schemes and creative song concepts, but even this young star has battled with depression. The 27-year-old rapper recently opened up about his struggles with depression throughout his life and his hopes that his music will help younger generations deal with their own feelings of depression.
Alicia Keys
The soulful songstress always seems to be smiling these days, but there was once a time when she felt like sadness was ruling her life. Back in 2007, Keys revealed that she had been battling depression, and it became nearly impossible to open up about her feelings.
“I was feeling so sad all the time, and I couldn’t shake it,” she said nearly seven years ago. “I started burying my feelings, and it got to a point where I couldn’t even tell my family or my friends, ‘I’m twisted,’ or ‘I’m exhausted,’ or ‘I’m so angry.’ … I became a master of putting up the wall so that I was unreadable.”
