"Hip Hop went from selling crack to smoking it"

[Detroit_blue]

y'all want it both ways man

nikkas use to rhyme about getting money and feeding they family

now nikkas are broke malnourished and high on everything

big difference between Jeezy and future

Jeezy made u wanna go get money
future makes you want to get high
we won't even get into how it's talked about. metaphors, smilies and such compared to directly sayin pop a perc... the 90s did it differently.

but I do agree we as old heads gotta take responsibility

 

[Suleiman Bey]

Yall lying to yallselves. Rappers been junkies ever since so called realness was ushered in. One of the greatest album of all-time is "The Chronic".

 

[Osmosis]

selling drugs is less respectable

 

[erickonasis]

Maybe. Never had anything stronger than weed.

But I know my share of addicts and there's a visible difference between the ones on crack & heroin and the others. Addiction is addiction and I'm not downplaying that but cmon breh

I know people on coke that you woukd never know they were if u didnt know them. There are levels to addiction no matter what the drug. Everyone that smoke crack isnt pushing the shopping cart thats a myth

 

[H. Selassie]

DMX (Crack)
ODB (Coke/Crack)
Flavor Flav (Crack)
Coolio (Crack)
98% of Houston Rappers (Lean)
Eminem (Pills)
Almost every rapper ever (Weed/Coke/Alcohol)

Yup...rappers JUST started becoming drug addicts brehs

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

@dora_da_destroyer already made this thread. In other words, the Bay Area invented this thread

 

[BigSteve]

Three 6 was snorting ounces of blow through the entirety of the 90's and made the first national codeine anthem in the late 90's.

Wu-Tang was also on blow

Hell, there were a lot of artists talking about coke

Houston, New Orleans, and Memphis were also sippin 20 years ago.

The Molly craze is hilarious to me, because rap has been promoting extacy since I guess the late 90's?

Pills have always been a subject in rap too.

All of that to say - none of this is new. None of it.

I think the only difference is now that the underground is more accessible.

 

[Harry B]

When the fukk has any rapper talked about smoking crack? When did Tx rappers not sip codein?

Future is the only rapper I know that raps about emo kids prescription pills.

And MD is a party drug that makes you turn up in the clubs. Crack and H, have never been acceptable

 

[vaudevillevillain]

Its a Mos Def quote from the Goat album Black on Both Side

You aint never heard the track Hip Hop

Nah i aint linking it for you

You "new school" nikkas aint shyt

i know where the quote is from fool, i just dont agree with it

 

[Ineedmoney504]

When the fukk has any rapper talked about smoking crack? When did Tx rappers not sip codein?

Future is the only rapper I know that raps about emo kids prescription pills.

And MD is a party drug that makes you turn up in the clubs. Crack and H, have never been acceptable

H been a big thing in New Orleans

 

[CHICAGOrilla]

Huge difference between hard drugs like crack & heroin and recreational drugs like lean and molly.

Bruh

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Mos definitely.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Da majority of a shyt being promoted is trickin' off, doin' drugs & turnin' up. As was said, ain't none of this shyt new. Works right in with culture creation (and da shyt ain't just regulated to hip-hop, it surpasses genres. Movies, music, cinema, etc). They tell y'all what to wear, what brands are poppin', what bottles to pop (remember Cristal, Hypnotiq, Ace of Spades???), and what drugs to ingest amongst other shyt.

But I've long been convinced, if x flavor of da month rapper tell folks that it's cool to hit designer drugs intravenously, then impressionable, weak minded muthafukkas gon' be clamoring to be da next junkies.

Look at da lean craze. Boys down in Texas, Da Boot and M-Town been on that shyt. Lil' Wayne is directly responsible fa' da new craze of folks sippin' in recent years tho'. Boys ain't e'en on yellow (tuss) like they on that purple

H been a big thing in New Orleans

Baby made a track called "I Need A Bag of Dope" N'awlins nikkas love that big, bad boy.

 

[GunRanger]

 

[HandsomeBrute]

Drugs have always been in hip hop as well as other genres .