As I get older, the more I see that food is no longer a source of 100% pleasure. Yes,there’s some pleasure in it, but has many more benefits than taste alone. And if not properly monitored, it can actually be your worst enemy.
In an effort to stay healthy and keep my waist line down as my metabolism naturally drops, I’m going on a vegan/ vegetarian exploration … and apparently I’m taking you with me. So this time I found an interesting article noting some hip-hop artists who have taking the plunge. Here’s an excerpt.
“I’ve been vegan for so long—I used to joke with Jay Z about it all the time,” says Jermaine Dupri, the hip-hop mogul behind the storied So So Def record label. “I’d go to his 40/40 Club and there wasn’t much I could eat, so he’d come over all the time and be like, ‘JD, here you come with that vegan shit!’ Then one day I look up and see him and Beyoncé are being vegan. I told her, ‘You know, he used to make fun of me for that and now he wants to be vegan.’ I had to ride him about that.”
Dupri has been a staunch advocate of avoiding animal products for more than a decade now, but Jay and Bey’s dalliance with the diet began in December of 2013. With Hov’s 44th birthday on the horizon, he decided to take up a 22-day vegan challenge. “I prefer to call it, plant-based!” he blogged enthusiastically.
Jay Z’s “spiritual and physical cleanse” dominated the headlines, but he’s just one of a number of high-powered hip-hop artists who are trading filet mignon for grilled tofu. André 3000, Common, MCA (before he passed away), and serial rappers’ baby mom Erykah Badu have all embraced veganism to various degrees, while the RZA even became a figurehead for animal rights group PETA, fronting a campaign with the Wu-Tang Clan-referencing slogan, “A better tomorrow is a vegan tomorrow.”
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