I didn’t have to consciously quit, the end of my music “career” was happening on its own. Trust me, I am using the term “career” very lightly here. Rap had pretty much cost me money to that point.
“Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery. Our literature of ecstasy recounts the dark nights of the soul and encounters with mystics in the slums and in the refugee camps of genocidal wars.”
Alphonso Lingis