Cocaine rap vs the reality of cocaine use

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I think the pro coke selling rap is a scary thing. Even triggering on many levels.
I don't fukk with with coke.

But what's the reality of that life that YOU have seen?

I saw
- dudes Warrick their lives by 27
- relationships get ruined
- mental health disintegration
- three dudes I knew who commit suicide - one could have been a murder - but they all involved cocaine use/addiction and sales
- a woman broke her family and destroyed a high paying career. Now she's practically homeless and in and out of mental health facilities.

Coke rap shows this big time image. Coke life can offer a big time image.

But the reality I've seen has all been destructive.

I get coke rap as motivating in that it relates to hustling and working hard regardless.

But then we see a life like DMX, a life long cocaine addict. While a great artist he once had well over 3 million. In the end he had just $50,000 to split with over 5 kids.

The facts are the facts.

What I'm looking for in this thread is what any of you have seen in real life regarding cocaine use.

 

[YourMumsRoom]

Great thread. The promotion of this poison in music, films and TV has never sat right with me as a child or adult, especially when growing up in the 90's the dealers in the community were shunned not glorified like heroes.

 

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Great thread. The promotion of this poison in music, films and TV has never sat right with me as a child or adult, especially when growing up in the 90's the dealers in the community were shunned not glorified like heroes.

Thanks. Have you experienced any first hand experiences of it's destruction?

I listed what I saw above.

Coke rap doesn't even have longevity I feel.

55 year old Street crack dealers is one of the most messed up things to see. They're fukking zombies as older men.

 

[HiiiPower]

Thanks. Have you experienced any first hand experiences of it's destruction?

I listed what I saw above.

Coke rap doesn't even have longevity I feel.

55 year old Street crack dealers is one of the most messed up things to see. They're fukking zombies as older men.

Not sure why you think this, Coke rap has been around since the 80’s while one of the most acclaimed rap albums this year is literally named after and mostly about selling drugs..mostly coke

 

[YourMumsRoom]

Thanks. Have you experienced any first hand experiences of it's destruction?

I listed what I saw above.

Coke rap doesn't even have longevity I feel.

55 year old Street crack dealers is one of the most messed up things to see. They're fukking zombies as older men.

Hell yeah! Growing up in South London I saw the old heads go from functioning weed heads to C heads sadly, then areas get gentrified. Even dealers I went school with become strung out. The sh!t is depressing man.

 

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Not sure why you think this, Coke rap has been around since the 80’s while one of the most acclaimed rap albums this year is literally named after and mostly about selling drugs..mostly coke

True. But there's something off about that style of hip hop.

There's truth to the lyrics but I feel alot of it is overly flashly. Not the realistic side I've seen. I know there's levels to the drug dealing game.

But the lower levels of it are dirty as fukk.

The upper levels are also corrupt and just off. I've never seen it last even as long as a drug rapper's career that spans 10 years.

Showing that flashly life and fronting like it's easily attainable is scary as fukk.

You need strong emotions and a mentality to be in that game.

 

[JetFueledThoughts]

It’s a party drug? It takes responsibility and discipline to enjoy it without getting caught up. But it isn’t heroin breh

I drank a few nose cocktails last night and I live just fine, typing this from my couch w/ my morning coffee. Do the drugs don’t let the drugs do you

 

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Hell yeah! Growing up in South London I saw the old heads go from function weed heads to C heads sadly, then areas get gentrified. Even dealers went school with become strung out. The sh!t is depressing man.

I've seen similar.

 

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It’s a party drug? It takes responsibility and discipline to enjoy it without getting caught up. But it isn’t heroin breh

I drank a few nose cocktails last night and I live just fine, typing this from my couch w/ my morning coffee. Do the drugs don’t let the drugs do you

That's the thing tho. It's a slippery slope.

The woman with the family and career used it to party. She neglected her family and career for it. Ruined her life. And she did this in her mid forties after a life of discipline. Last time I saw her on the bus. She used to look beautiful but looks wacked out now. She attempted suicide too.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

All these fukking hip hop dissertations from mothafukkas…with all due respect, that ain’t from the culture. We are the culture. Others just a part of it. And them be the main ones tryna dictate and criticize shyt. Lacking all nuanced perspective. Cocaine is not going anywhere and rappers rapping about selling cocaine is not going anywhere. It don’t matter how destructive someone may think it is. You are coming from the place of an ex dope fiend who was addicted to coke, obviously this subject is near and dear to your heart

 

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Coke is triggering in the media. Maybe I see it different as an adult. I don't blame tv and video games for violence.

But when Johnny Depp talks about keeping cocaine in boxes or doing it in the morning. Thinking on that lavish lifestyle of real millions and luxury....I can see a middle class addict triggered to sniff off those words alone.

 

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All these fukking hip hop dissertations from mothafukkas…with all due respect, that ain’t from the culture. We are the culture. Others just a part of it. And them be the main ones tryna dictate and criticize shyt. Lacking all nuanced perspective. Cocaine is not going anywhere and rappers rapping about selling cocaine is not going anywhere. It don’t matter how destructive someone may think it is. You are coming from the place of an ex dope fiend who was addicted to coke, obviously this subject is near and dear to your heart

Who was an ex dope fiend? I never fukked with cocaine in my life but was around dealers and addicts.

Drugs aren't bad. It's the relationship someone has to drugs.

But for it to be so popular in hip hop to me is scary.

 

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Who was an ex dope fiend? I never fukked with cocaine in my life but was around dealers and addicts.

Drugs aren't bad. It's the relationship someone has to drugs.

But for it to be so popular in hip hop to me is scary.

My apologies. I could have swore I saw you post some shyt about your struggle with addiction before

 

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I was actually so angry at coke heads back in 2008 I recorded a track about them hoping they overdose! But then forgiving them and hoping they get help in the same breath.

 

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My apologies. I could have swore I saw you post some shyt about your struggle with addiction before

All good homie. Yes I used to drink alcohol but quit at 33 years old. I have had maybe 2 beers the first year in singles. Other than that I haven't touched alcohol in 7 years 5+ months!

I work, make CDs, did a film of DVD and have a relationship with my girl instead.

I'm still tempted to go back tho when I get brain busy. I do positive things instead tho.