The Obsession That KILLED Sublime Bradley Nowell

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The Obsession That KILLED Sublime Bradley Nowell

Although some speculate that Bradley Nowell's drug addictions may have been initiated by his early prescriptions of Ritalin as a youth, The Sublime singer's wife attributed his heroin use to an unhealthy obsession with rock stars.
“He wanted to be a rock star. He said it was very rock & roll, you know. Perry Farrell and Kurt Cobain and all those guys did drugs, and Brad wanted to see what it was like. Then they honestly begin to think that they write better music! I mean, Robbin’ the Hood [Sublime’s second album] was written when Brad was at his worst of being strung out. It’s a great album, but it’s all about his heroin abuse: ‘Now I’ve got the needle/I can shake but I can’t breathe/Take it away and I want more, more/One day I’m gonna lose the war.’ ” - Troy Dendekker; Bradley Nowell: Life After Death, Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone (Dec 25, 1997)