When/why did it become cool to be the dope fiend in rap?

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LunaticVillage415 said:
Some of the most influential Rap records of all-time in the 90's glamorize coke. :usure:Case in point Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. "Congratulations, Chef let's celebrate and sniff an eighth." All of the sniffing before "Knowledge God".

Back in the 90's, drugs of choice were more limited to the specific artist and region. UGK fukked with Lean and that was known to be a regional thang. Rae and Ghost fukked with coke. BG and hella N.O. nikkas fukked with dope and rapped about it. Out in DC/PG, wet has always been a big drug of choice. But nowadays in Rap, Lean/Xanax is nationwide. When I was growing up in the Bay in the 80's and 90's, Lean was never heard of, it was all about weed and liquor. Now everybody in the Bay pouring up dirty Sprites like it's 1994 in Houston. When rappers actually start endorsing dope like they endorse Lean/Molly/Xanax, we got a problem. But dope is more of a white people problem now anyway. Unless Lean gets recalled period and runs out, I don't expect a new generation of true blue dope fiends from the hood.
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Wasn't Mac Dre rapping about ecstasy in the late 80/early 90s as well :patrice:
 
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lean really is retarded. codeine is the schwag of opiates. when i hear the prices people are charging for lean my mind is blown. rappers will have you think that there is something different in Activis syrup compared to off brand generic shyt too, as if the active ingredients arent the goddamn same, "nah but Act is different though" fukk outta here. just like when the yellow (mallindrokt) perc 10s were big... people were charging more for the yellows because a couple guys mentioned popping yellow tabs in some dumbass song. meanwhile 10 mg of oxycodone with 325 mg of tylenol is the same across the board, no matter who makes it or what color it is. these are universal. pills and bottles of cough syrup arent jordans. rappers really are the best accidential, unintentional salesmen ever. its kind of sad but still funny
 
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I don't know I think its always been there since the early 80s just through the years lyricism changed more people started getting onto the slang understanding it more and more people into hip hop as it gets bigger
 
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Geoffrey_Chaucer said:
yall def need to study on rap history






nikkas made this anti-drug song as a cover
these nikkas was fukking with that powder




that coke usage was a bragging point in the 70' and 80's
coke usage was a sign of having money
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When we hear people talk about Hip Hop greats that have passed , we often hear of Tupac , Biggie , Jam Master Jay and maybe even Scott La Rock. But very seldom is the name Keith “Cowboy” Wiggins mentioned. Keith Cowboy laid the foundation for the call & response tactics that we have seen almost EVERY Emcee use since the 70s. Everytime you hear “throw your hands in the air” , “Say hoooo” etc. etc. you are listening to the creations of Cowboy. Unfortunately Cowboy did not get the chance to see his contributions reach every corner of the globe. Its only right that Cowboy’s story be told by those closest to him – his family members & fellow Furious 5 brothers.

Before you think that rappers dying young is just a modern thing, let’s take a trip back in the Wayback Machine as tragedy strikes one of the innovators of the movement. Keith “Cowboy” Wiggins was one of the original members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, appearing on tracks like “The Message” and “White Lines.” Unfortunately, the anti-cocaine message of the latter was lost on Cowboy, who developed a monolithic crack habit. When the group split up for the second time in ‘89, Cowboy’s soon died of complications from the #AIDS virus.
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Can't forget Melle Mel:mjlol:


AllHipHop: Clothing-wise you dudes had a whole different style. Some say it’s the pre-Run DMC era with some other influences like punk rock in there.

MM: It was simple. We came from the ghetto and just some ni**a-sh*t. When we were hot, we tried to be star and add an era of entertainment to what we do. We weren’t trying to go on stage and look like our audience. We was going to be something that was more dominant to our audience. Even when we stepped on stage, we wanted the audience to know that they can never be us. We are there to entertain them. That Run DMC era was guys from the street trying to dress like guys from the street. That was their connection to the crowd. These guys wanted to have the same car as the dope dealer got, go the dope dealer wear. Ours was totally different. I wanted to be on one side of the bar coked up and Billy Idol [rock star] was on the other side high on dope.

AllHipHop: You mentioned drugs and getting high. Was “White Lines” glamorizing getting high?

MM: I just made a song about what my perception of cocaine was. It wasn’t something to make you get high. It wasn’t to make you stop getting high. We added [choruses of] “Don’t Do It” in the song because nobody had made a rap record about cocaine at that time. [Still], a lot of record stations didn’t playing it because it was about cocaine.

AllHipHop: Was coke something you guys indulged in?

MM: Yeah, everybody did. It was the think to do. That was before crack came out. Cocaine was like the high-profile drug. Good cocaine was like $100 a gram. All the pretty girls and the entertainers liked cocaine. It wasn’t like its seen now.

AllHipHop: Did you ever get addicted?

MM: Yeah, you know – I didn’t get hooked on coke all that much. But when, crack came out, I did crack. I was a crack head at one time. A couple of years – a lot of people got caught out there. It wasn’t me. I didn’t have to go to rehab. After a couple years and I’m not looking as good as I used to and I ain’t writing. I left it alone.
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When did Hip Hop transition over from hustler to customer? :dahell:


The molly craze where nikkas rapped more about poppin pills than making money off dealing it. I read this article below and it got me the thinking.



Where drug selling evolved from a place of warning to becoming a necessity of putting food on the plate before being fully perverted into being profession to embrace to the extent of protecting it with one’s death, drug use evolved from something you avoided overly partaking in as B.I.G stated as one of the “Ten Crack Commandments” to becoming the perfect way to avoid the pain of life as shown as the focus of the discographies of mainstream Hip-Hop’s current leader’s Future and Young Thug. This was a transition fostered by Lil Wayne in the early 10’s of the 21st Century.


But why the transition from highlighting highly risky drug dealing to embracing self-destructive drug use? One short and simple answer is dilution, in that everyone, including those who’s credibility have been questioned, such as Rick Ross, have adopted it in their music in an attempt to break into the industry as a leader. However, that still doesn’t explain why overt drug use has become so popular as an alternative or equal ingredient to other types of content in Hip-Hop.


The more complex and honest answer as to why self-destructive drug use has become credible and a staple is that an inability or fear of expression of vulnerability prevents many mainstream artists from expressing what’s really going on in their life as shown in their muse. When combined with the perception of women and the respect that they are supposed to garner, we see that a perversion of the definition of what it is to be a man has turned from being strong through vulnerability to being strong by swearing their vulnerability does not exist.


Of course, the adoption of being one-dimensional in character and expression is not just a fabrication in the minds of artists, it has its roots in how the youth have been indoctrinated to interact with one another in their own community. We can go back to residential zoning laws, lack of jobs and the destruction of the Black family to see how and why many youth in the Inner City are perceived to have a dog-eat-dog mentality and as a result of it going unchecked because of poor childhood development in school and lack of productive programs and organizations in their neighborhoods and because of feelings of low self worth, it has been intertwined in the music that offers them identity.
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Rappers always rapped about doing drugs but it was never this mainstream and over diluted. How did we get to this point :mindblown:



Episode 6: State of Emergency for HipHop + How Cam Newton is being portrayed as a villain.
 
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