Miguel is not shy about his love of psychedelics.
During a recent interview with Bootleg Kev, Miguel shared his best and worst trips on the substances.
“We love psychedelics,” adding that he’s had “mostly good trips.”
“The best ones are always outside, though,” Miguel explained. “Either by water or in the forest kind of vibe. Maybe not in the forest, but like the sky is out. You know what I mean? Like you’re looking at the trees, you’re like, ‘Wow, we really are one.’”
Miguel went on to explain how taking magic mushrooms has been a game-changer for
“There’s a real something in — especially shrooms and psychedelics — that there’s something in the…it’s all one, you know, there’s the oneness of it. I don’t know. There’s something really special. Never had a bad trip, though,” he said.
Miguel did admit that his worst trips happened when taking edibles
“I’ve had some bad trips,” he explained. “They always end up in me crying over some bullshit.” One trip in particular was while he was on an edible. “I was like under a car, hiding. … That’s one, you got to ride that out,” he said.
Miguel has recently released his long-awaited fifth studio album, titled CAOS, marking his first full-length project in eight years. The album arrived on his 40th birthday.
The album is his most genre-bending work yet, architecting a powerful collision of R&B, grunge, industrial rock, and Afro-Latin rhythms, channeling both aggression and intimacy across its twelve tracks.
“The sound of the album was very much inspired by that nonlinear kind of aggressive tone that I think, at least personally, I’ve had to take with myself and really get to the bottom of things,” Miguel told USA TODAY. “It’s not an easy or happy or romantic process. I think it takes a lot of consideration.”