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My Sober Story: BlackLiq

by | Dec 28, 2021

BlackLiq shares insight and knowledge about his struggle with alcohol and his eventual sobriety. BlackLiq is a Richmond hip hop artist, radio host, and instructor who attained excellence after stepping away from alcohol years ago. Any amount of time spent with BlackLiq becomes an impromptu learning experience, and his episode of “My Sober Story” doesn’t differ from that rocket science trajectory. Knowledge is what we can take home from this project. Whatever we have mistaken as gifts from alcohol were already inside us. And we’re worth it.

Interviews conducted by Ryan Kent
Direction and edit by R. Anthony Harris @majormajor_____
Camera by Joey Wharton @joey_wharton
Sound by John Reinhold @thereinholder
Additional edit by Todd Raviotta @naturalsciencetrav
Production by Wharton Major 2021

Ryan Kent

Ryan Kent

Ryan Kent is the author of the collections, Poems For Dead People, This Is Why I Am Insane, Hit Me When I'm Pretty, and Everything Is On Fire: Selected Poems 2014-2021. He has also co-authored the poetry collections, Tomorrow Ruined Today, and Some Of Us Love You (both with Brett Lloyd). His spoken word record, Dying Comes With Age, will be released by Rare Bird Books in 2022. Ryan is a staff writer for RVA Magazine and maintains a pack a day habit. (photo by D. Randall Blythe)

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