-I'll agree the shyt wasn't glamorized like today but the rest of this isn't fully true. People need to stop acting like there was some Black community code when there wasn't. Everyone didn't look down on all drug users in 80's & 90's because drugs & gangs started being normal.I'm not pretending that having an addiction is exclusive to White folks.
My point was that Brehs had somewhat of a "Code", that certain shyt was off limits, we didn't do certain shyt.
Getting high off inhaling some shyt would have been looked at as some "White Boy Shyt, I don't make the rules, I'm just stating a fact.
Yes we had people in our community doing shyt like Heroin, Crack, Cocaine, PCP, etc... But that shyt was never "Glamorized".
You did drugs especially hard drugs, you were looked down on, these are facts.
Now days popping pills, and drinking cough syrup, and a bunch of other bullshyt is looked as "Normal", when before you would be clowned for that shyt.
-I'll agree the shyt wasn't glamorized like today but the rest of this isn't fully true. People need to stop acting like there was some Black community code when there wasn't. Everyone didn't look down on all drug users in 80's & 90's because drugs & gangs started being normal.
-Weed was normalized on the streets here long before Dre & coke was fine if you had money. PCP was iffy. Street dudes were already idolizing celebrities & crime lords that did the shyt & people had connects from California.
I don't think that was ever really true.There was a period of time when doing weird azz drugs was white boy shyt, SMH!
new orleans rap nikkas used to constantly talk about doing heroin. ALL Jazz and Funk nikkas were dope fiends.-I'll agree the shyt wasn't glamorized like today but the rest of this isn't fully true. People need to stop acting like there was some Black community code when there wasn't. Everyone didn't look down on all drug users in 80's & 90's because drugs & gangs started being normal.
-Weed was normalized on the streets here long before Dre & coke was fine if you had money. PCP was iffy. Street dudes were already idolizing celebrities & crime lords that did the shyt & people had connects from California.
new orleans rap nikkas used to constantly talk about doing heroin. ALL Jazz and Funk nikkas were dope fiends.
-Hip hop came from the streets, not the other way around & it can't outlaw or dictate shyt in the Black community. You can keep that "urban intellectual" nonsense to yourself. I'm not listening to someone that doesn't know shyt try to tell me about my own hood. You still believe everybody threw hands back in the day too, huh?This cap.
You ain't been nowhere.
in no full black urban hood.
where being a cluck was accepted.
Sneak snorters ain't never been accepted.
Clucks always been goofies.
Any nikka in the hood who a cluck is a goofie.
Ain't never been no acceptance.
for being a cluck in a black urban intellectual space ever.
We can up:
White lines = cowboy edict. Culturally outlaw8ng the use of cocaine completely in hiphop period.
Yo mama on crack rock video. Just For starters.
if nikkaz wanna play dumb and be some enabling cluck ass goofies.
Art Barr
-The GOAT comedian Richard Pryor was the same.new orleans rap nikkas used to constantly talk about doing heroin. ALL Jazz and Funk nikkas were dope fiends.
-Hip hop came from the streets, not the other way around & it can't outlaw or dictate shyt in the Black community. You can keep that "urban intellectual" nonsense to yourself. I'm not listening to someone that doesn't know shyt try to tell me about my own hood. You still believe everybody threw hands back in the day too, huh?
-The GOAT comedian Richard Pryor was the same.
You not from an urban intellectualism base space. You from a rural location that lacks urban intellectualism.
Thinking all eras ran concurrently.
In and on no day is drug use and being a cluck socially accepted in rhe Black community.
Taking drugs and having social spaces.
for status drugs came from robber baron white people you goofie.
Spare me your misinformation about hiphop. That has nuffin to do with your rant. Especially when there exists the cowboy edict from the ol school way of thought with white Lineas gatewaya . Before the segueway to the new school way of thought.
Stop the cap.
Art Barr
-I'm GenX from the SouthSide of Mpls, grew up in gang territory & was on the block in the 80's & 90's. You don't know shyt about my city or how it was in my community.
-I grew up all around drug users and a bunch were average working people that got high in their spare time. The ones that handled their business weren't getting shunned by anyone because they WERE part of the community. People did drugs socially while drinking & playing cards at home and while out bar hopping. You don't know what the fukk you're talking about.
Some Dudes in here arguing just to argue.
If you were NOT ALIVE during the Early 80's, to the early 90's and LIVED in a Black Community, I'm NOT Trying to hear your "Opinion" on this shyt.
FOR A FACT, certain drugs/things we looked at as "White Boy Shyt".
NO ONE is arguing that there "Weren't Drugs In The Black Community", we are saying "The Shyt Wasn't Glamorized" like it is today.
I Was alive during those times, if you WERE NOT, I'm not tying to hear shyt you have to say about it.
And yes Being a "Fiend / Basehead" was looked down on, these are Facts.
There are numerous examples of drug use stigma, especially in early Rap.
"Mr Chronic", Dr Dre, himself once said...
"I don't smoke weed or sess,
Cause it's known to give a brother brain damage
And brain damage on the mic don't manage nothing
"
Then Years later put out the Chronic, which helped "Popularize/Glamorize" being a Weed user.
We even have examples with "Slang".
If someone said...
"You're Smoking",
"On that Shyt",
"Trippin",
Etc...
These are all terms used to attribute a negative connotation to Drug Use.
If someone said some Dumb Shyt, and I said "You're Smoking", the implied negativity of drug use is already there.
The biggest "Hard Drug" during the 80's and Early 90's was Crack, and that shyt was NOT Glamorized!