When did rappers go from dealers to users?

[Existential]

Musicians in general have always been notorious drug abusers. some of your favorite old school rappers were coke heads.

And these guys are here talking about how all of this lame...now.

I don't get these people at all. It was fine when the dealer wanted to start rapping, but once the fiends start spitting, these guys want to complain about negativity being glamorized in rap like that's something new.

Acting like drugs didn't ravage the black community before, acting like it even matters if fiends start glamorizing pills, needles and glass dikks. This shyt has been happening, if you're only complaining now that's because you only know about black youth and the hood through rap alone.

Rappers from back in the day used all that shyt, what the fukk is this? You had dust heads back in the day, this syrup/pills shyt is nothing compared to that. All of this shyt has been going in REAL fukkING LIFE since way back in the day, and you're just now concerned?!? Where the fukk have you been?

Now you're worried about the bullshyt rappers rap about? Now you're worried about the "impressionable youth?" Hahaha, you can't be serious.


I can't believe this thread. I just can't.

Eminem gets a pass he been rappin bout usin mollys, xanax, shrooms, vicodin since his first album.

now these N****s...I DON'T fukk WIT!!!!

No reason u should ever be addicted to drugs and rappin bout it if u was really livin that life

Then the BREAKFAST CLUB acted like the sh*t was cool to be a junkie when he came on the show SMH in disgust

What the fukk kinda post is this? No reason to be addicted to drugs and rapping about it? Then no reason to rap about selling drugs to your community either, right?

Edit:
Also, what happened to this: "I'm not glorifying the hood, I'm documenting it. I'm more of a journalist. I'm not actually committing these crimes you hear me rap about." We let a whole generation of rappers play dealer/killer on wax, don't get mad when the current generation plays junkie. They're just keeping it real about what goes on in the hood, and people do use hard drugs in the hood (if you didn't know).

 

[The 2020 New Member]

they were always users. it depends on the rapper but to be real, how many successful dealers do you know (of)? most of us break a commandment because why the fukk not.

 

[Cole Cash]

Let's break this down a bit.



You've been seeing the effects of lyrics (which were the effects of this country's history) first hand. Now you're noticing? Now you care?

Look, when rappers were talking about drug dealing and weed smoking, there were still users. They were selling to people in the same communities.

Black people have been using hard drugs. If you support drug dealing raps over drug using raps, you're not making any sense at all. There will still be drug users in the hood if there are drug dealers in the hood.



Drug dealers weren't lame? What the fukk?

There's so much wrong with your view of things. If you view crack in such a negative light, then raps about dealing it should be just as bad as raps about using it. Rappers have been glorifying crack sales since the beginning. Crack fukked up our communities, did you forget that? Where the fukk have you been?

You're not against crack use in the hood, you're against crack use in your raps. Which doesn't mean shyt. If you didn't have a problem with the situation before, don't start getting all moral now.



But it's OK to make song after song about selling crack? If someone's selling crack in the hood, then someone else is using crack in the hood.

If you were really against this shyt, you'd look at drug dealing rap in the same "really negative light."



Ahahaha, but you weren't disgusted about the dealers and the gangbangers (which led to many using these hard drugs anyway). All of the other shyt that rappers had "impressionable youth" doing was OK with you?

It's all fukking bad, breh. All of the fukked up shyt fukks us up, you cannot be selective.




Your rant was quite ridiculous.

Clearly, you think it's cool to be a drug dealer (it's not, it's also lame) but lame to use the drugs. You just prefer hearing about people destroying their communities rather than destroying themselves.

You make no sense. Anybody who does fukked up shyt because of rap gets the face from me. No matter how popular it is. Jay-Z raps about selling drugs so you gotta sell drugs too? Lil Wayne raps about using drugs so you gotta use drugs too?

Sorry you feel that way about my post. i guess what you have taken from my post seems to be focused on me not caring and me glorifying drug dealers. Not exactly my point. Reading your post you seem to be taking a combative almost personal stance against what i have said.

 

[PrinceDeeDer]

And these guys are here talking about how all of this lame...now.

I don't get these people at all. It was fine when the dealer wanted to start rapping, but once the fiends start spitting, these guys want to complain about negativity being glamorized in rap like that's something new.

Acting like drugs didn't ravage the black community before, acting like it even matters if fiends start glamorizing pills, needles and glass dikks. This shyt has been happening, if you're only complaining now that's because you only know about black youth and the hood through rap alone.

Rappers from back in the day used all that shyt, what the fukk is this? You had dust heads back in the day, this syrup/pills shyt is nothing compared to that. All of this shyt has been going in REAL fukkING LIFE since way back in the day, and you're just now concerned?!? Where the fukk have you been?

Now you're worried about the bullshyt rappers rap about? Now you're worried about the "impressionable youth?" Hahaha, you can't be serious.


I can't believe this thread. I just can't.



What the fukk kinda post is this? No reason to be addicted to drugs and rapping about it? Then no reason to rap about selling drugs to your community either, right?

Edit:
Also, what happened to this: "I'm not glorifying the hood, I'm documenting it. I'm more of a journalist. I'm not actually committing these crimes you hear me rap about." We let a whole generation of rappers play dealer/killer on wax, don't get mad when the current generation plays junkie. They're just keeping it real about what goes on in the hood, and people do use hard drugs in the hood (if you didn't know).

I said if you was ABOUT THAT LIFE (in the streets, talkin that bust ya gun shyt/hustle shyt) you shouldn't be rappin bein a junkie just don't got respect for those people. T.I. said he got addicted to vicodin from the dentist. Ain't nothin wrong wit sellin drugs WTF kinda nikka is you??? Its what nikkas go through to make out the hood its been validated in hip hop.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

when people started talkin about their real life

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Yeah it's always been corny

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

The truth is, culture is what programs us from childhood to deal with society as adults. Music, especially for black people, is one of its strongest tools and when you don't even own your culture those who do can inculcate within a mass of impressionable young people particular poisons that'll better their chances of being locked up, locked in ignorance, dead, disabled, pretty much any scenario having to do with fukkin you over. Not to say rappers weren't ever addicts in the 90s or hustlin is a noble profession. But being a dealer who has themself together mentally that's assed out tryna feed their kids is a much better narrative than a drugged out, flashy fake rockstar type rapper.

I don't necessarily blame rappers so much as I blame all of us in society, myself included, for not doing enough to act as some kind of equal force of change. But it is what it is.

 

[Unolove]

three six mafia in the 90's

 

[mson]

You got nikkas in here defending that shyt on some you supported the dealer so you shouldn't throw stones. I would much rather listen to the dealer then the fiend.

 

[Reggie]

Em helped make being a junkie popular with all of his pill popping verses and whatnot. But that was pretty much just the white culture who was fascinated by that. But then songs like Sippin on some Sizzurp and others helped make it fashionable to blacks to be drinking codeine and trying powder. Then Wayne pretty much made it cool to be on every drug in the world. But no matter what its fukked up because besides the weed, the rest of that shyt kills you. And aint nothing cool about an overdose.

 

[How Sway?]

I think lil wayne and gucci mane made that shyt popular. Especially lil Wayne.



But people been talking about using drugs in their music. Like them boys from Houston talking about sizzurp, I'm pretty sure 36 mafia had songs about drug use too

 

[Pop123]

yooo, i swear i was just having this exact same discussion at the barber shop yesterday, wow. somebody mentioned how in rap it's cooler nowadays to be an addict than a hustler.. which turned into a discussion about it's cooler to be effeminate than masculine...which turned into it's just cool to be Left in general, being a weirdo is cool now. uncool is cool now, which sounds like it should be a positive thing, but hell no, lol, these nikkas abusing it.

 

[The Jewnited States]

if you end up doing drugs because you heard a rapper say they do it, you are literally too dumb to live and i hope you fukking die.

 

[Dpad]

Unfortunately now a days these kids have an idea that there invincible with these drugs and are taking everything. I remember hearing a middle school kid rapping that pop a molly got me sweating. That disgusted me no reason a middle school kid should be rapping them lyrics. All these kids hearing that are going to have the idea that molly is as safe as weed.

 

[NvrCMyNut]

do yall ever cover any new subjects? same old shyt