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!