The Backstreet Boys may be mostly known for their Top 40 hits, but the boy band also gets down with hip-hop.

Nick Carter, one quarter of the group, is professing his admiration for Q-Tip. “I love Q-Tip. He’s my favorite rapper, so I’d love to do a song with him one day,” Carter tells Rap-Up.com. “I know he did that song back in the day with Janet, ‘Got ’Til It’s Gone,’ and I loved his last album [The Renaissance]. I’m a big Q-Tip fan.”
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Nick Carter opens up about his battle with drug and alcohol addiction in an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show that airs today.

“I would either go out at night or party [while on tour with the Backstreet Boys],” Carter says. “I didn’t do a lot of morning drinking or anything of that sort. It would sort of be an occasional thing, but a lot of occasions that I would kind of make excuses to just go out to drink and party. It would be excessive.”

Drugs “kind of came later in life,” Carter continues. “Alcohol kind of kicked it off and then, once the alcohol kind of wasn’t doing it for me, I would lean on other things.”
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Speaking candidly about his 10-year struggle with substance abuse, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter says his road to recovery was rocky.

“I would make excuses to just go out to drink and party,” he says on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, airing Thursday. “It was excessive … Alcohol kind of kicked it off and then once the alcohol wasn’t doing it for me I would lean on other things.”
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During the decade boy-band heart-throb Nick Carter spent abusing drugs and alcohol – typically downing half a bottle of hard liquor a night, often followed by what he calls a “bump” of cocaine – there wasn’t anythingh that could make him stop. Not a 2002 arrest after a Florida bar brawl or a 2005 arrest for DUI. Not his ballooning weight, which shot up to 224 lbs in 2006, or the self-loathing he felt after a May 2008 trip to Russia, when he competed with locals to see who could down the most Sambuca. “There were things happening, proving that maybe what I was doing was out of control, all sorts of crazy stuff,” Carter admits. “But every time those red flags would come up, I’d appease people in my inner circle and make them think everything was alright.”

Even when it became clear that everything was most definitely not all right – last spring, during the European leg of the Backstreet Boys’ tour, he began experiencing a mild discomfort in his chest – Carter would not stop partying. “I was thinking, ‘Something is physically wrong with me,’” says the 29-year-old singer, who in June went to Ft. Lauderdale cardiologist Richard Polakoff for two days of medical testing. Read more »

Of all the places for an international celebrity to hold a birthday bash, the Greater Toronto Area is not always the first choice.

But Nick Carter, member of the hugely popular music group the Backstreet Boys, chose to celebrate his birthday Thursday night in Richmond Hill.

Hundreds of fans turned out on a bitterly cold night to celebrate Carter’s 29th birthday at Nava Restaurant and Bar.

The venue provided an intimate setting, giving fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with the star.
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