When did rappers go from dealers to users?

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Uh, since White Lines came out in the 80s?

The 'don't do it' parts were added to make it radio friendly but the song is very much about using/others using.

 

[avon barksdale]

[ame=http://youtu.be/YFQzSJCs_ss]Grandmaster Melle Mel - white lines - YouTube[/ame]

 

[blackslash]

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.

Guess uve never been a kid who has faced public school peer pressure

Learn to get a more humble spirit and lose the foolish pride and arrogance

 

[Ashtrey]

I swear the Wu was always talking bout smoking meth or some shyt and that shyt is 10x worse than molly and lean.

 

[The Jewnited States]

Guess uve never been a kid who has faced public school peer pressure

Learn to get a more humble spirit and lose the foolish pride and arrogance

i went to public school, i faced the peer pressure, but in no fukking way was i gonna let a RAPPER tell me how to live my life


must be all ya'll fatherless fukks that succumb to some bullshyt like this

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

I swear the Wu was always talking bout smoking meth or some shyt and that shyt is 10x worse than molly and lean.

They talked about smoking dust a ton. From the album name all the way down to a bunch of references in the songs....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95fZ2heTtU[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXuEOdgTFJY[/ame]

 

[Kid Coli]

recreational drugs are everywhere

plus recording music is more accessible and affordable than ever before

plus societies morals at an all time low

it's not suprusing brehs

 

[Non Sequitur]

lol squares

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

You also have this....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ELMGtbrUH0[/ame]

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

As far as in their rhymes go, it changed after the 90's. I'd say like in the early 2000's because I can recall Dr. Dre and Ja Rule talking about E pills.

But I mean, the talk of using has always been there because cats like Shock G were talking about E, shrooms, acid and all that back in the early 90's before a lot of cats in Hip Hop even embraced drugs outside of weed.

 

[Surreal]

Been this way in music since the late great Marvin Gaye - Sad Tomorrows

 

[blackslash]

i went to public school, i faced the peer pressure, but in no fukking way was i gonna let a RAPPER tell me how to live my life


must be all ya'll fatherless fukks that succumb to some bullshyt like this

a child cant control his parental situation

Kids are in public sschool for over 6 hours a day ...and when it comes to urban areas alot of them go back to single mother homes who have to go to work...alot of times during times their kids are finished with school
So a kid spends 6 hours of the day with other kids his age group more than his parents himself and goes back home to an unstable house..and u wanna sit here on ur pharisee chair and talk all that bullshyt
Next time learn and gain the humility to try and understand sht before u start condemning mufckaz to death for taking on self destructive lifestyles cuz of influence..

Lose ur stupid pride

 

[Will Ross]

I would say around 2009 when it Became cool

 

[King Poetic]

i say around 2007 around the time pimp c died.. them texas n!ggas and that mixing of syrup and prescription drugs and then lil wayne as usual following suit started doing it, now rick ross and everybody else thinking they

 

[Trajan]

+rep for OP.

Exactly how I feel. When did it become cool to be a fiend?

All these kids are plugged into the matrix of rap where they fukk strippers...pop pills...and make tons of money doing nothing. They have literally given up on their lives or choose to ignore their reality and instead opt to live vicariously through rappers they follow on twitter.

A rapper can afford to get high all day. How would a regular joe do the 'wake n bake' and yet manage to be a ''boss'' like their fav rapper?