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

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why not,Amerikkka&the whirld is disintergrating,what status quo is there to uphold by being a 'good' citizen in a colonizing racist ass country/empire that is fully implementing population control and ruling the whirld with an iron fist..

most humanoids that make threads like this are just jelly they gotta live a square life and try to impress their fellow idiots..
 

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It's called being human, you have all those fake ass Conscious rappers acting like they never got addicted to OTC shyt.
Everyone has taken some form of drug at one point in their lives, yet do this to:ufdup: the current generation.

Legal or Hard Drugs, regardless is STILL medication as fukked up as it sounds.

Rappers think they're Buddha or Jesus now?
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I guess most are a bit too young to remember but yeah a lot of 80s rap portrayed not being in control of your faculties as wack and that includes smoking weed and drinking alcohol. Concious rap was popular. So yeah, while artists were doing drugs on the low, they were making anti-drugs songs.
Remember "White Lines (Don't do it!)?" They were all doing it. lol

but..
Public Enemy
NWA
KRS-One
Ice T
etc etc..

Of course there was exceptions like the Beastie Boys but that was because they were more like a punk rock rebellious act.

90s kicked in and Cypress Hill and Dr. Dre made rapping about smoking weed normal.
 

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Lil Wayne set that trend off

Honestly Wayne set off alotta trends when he was at his peak famous wise

Before 2007-08 Wayne it was, "nikka I aint popping no pills :what:, I aint dressing like a white boy:camby:, fukk no I aint go down on that girl I just met her :martin:"

After 2007-08 Wayne it was, "I'm rolling :takedat:, Black clothes designers? :mjlol:, hell yea I ate the p*ssy :jawalrus:"


Yep, Wayne and Future don sold out the youth for drugs. They both got ripped off by they mentors, too.
 

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36 was a regional group in the mid 90s. They broke through in 97 with tear the club up. I thought they were a joke at the time. :yeshrug:

So was Eminem the first to extensively rap about abusing heavy drugs then? Excluding local acts.
Wu-Tang Clan?
 

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DJ Paul: Yeah, nikka, y'all know the motherfukking sco', y'all non-snorters, non-smokers, non-sippers, get the fukk up out of here, bytch
Bun B: nikka, it's some sipping-ass, pouring up-ass, smoking-ass, getting high-ass nikkas in here, Three 6, UGK, nikka, we putting it down in this motherfukker

People have been about it for a while. But Wayne had everyone on that drug/rockstar life movement. By 2008/09 it was the wave. It's been present ever since.
 

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It's called being human, you have all those fake ass Conscious rappers acting like they never got addicted to OTC shyt.
Everyone has taken some form of drug at one point in their lives, yet do this to:ufdup: the current generation.

Legal or Hard Drugs, regardless is STILL medication as fukked up as it sounds.

Rappers think they're Buddha or Jesus now?
:dead:

:why:

Most people don't do drugs
 
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