“...but I might pop one...”
He was talking out both side of his mouth...like somebody gone off percs. These rappers need to slow up off these prescription meds. You’d hope their labels would encourage rehab or sobriety, but the capitalist of it all probably wants the other likely scenario.
Lil Baby Might Be Rap’s Most Reluctant New StarYou’ve been pretty open about your struggles with [the codeine drink] lean. Do you worry about the people around you?
I drink a little bit here and there, this and that, so I can’t be too hard on you. But if you are just like, obsessive, I’m going to be on you. I ain’t really for that. To the point now where I stopped putting it in my music.
You’re rapping less about doing drugs?
I’m trying. Because I done rapped about drugs that I don’t even take. People think I take ’em and then people take ’em thinking I take ’em. Like popping Percs [Percocet]. I don’t pop Percs — period. Every now and then, I used to take a half of one, but I say it in my raps because I might pop oneand that’s what’s going on.
He was talking out both side of his mouth...like somebody gone off percs. These rappers need to slow up off these prescription meds. You’d hope their labels would encourage rehab or sobriety, but the capitalist of it all probably wants the other likely scenario.