When/why did it become cool to be the dope fiend in rap?
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You're clueless
thernbroom
Superstar
Not by much. I remember Still Dre dropping and Forgot About Dre leaking. I don't recall whether those particular songs had references to X. I do remember "I just took some exstacy, ain't no telling what the side effects could be"
But that wasn't a single.
I thought Tical was weed?
Nobody is saying that rappers weren't rapping about weed and alcohol, this thread is about rapping about using "hard" drugs.
There were definitely references to it here and there in the 90s and some groups (36 and Dre Dog jump to mind) were really taking it there. But it wasn't a predominant theme in the music as a whole. Like "40s and Blunts" Hennessey or Cristal.
At what point was being hooked on "hard" drugs a predominant theme in the music as a whole?
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
Not by much. I remember Still Dre dropping and Forgot About Dre leaking. I don't recall whether those particular songs had references to X. I do remember "I just took some exstacy, ain't no telling what the side effects could be"
But that wasn't a single.
I thought Tical was weed?
Nobody is saying that rappers weren't rapping about weed and alcohol, this thread is about rapping about using "hard" drugs.
There were definitely references to it here and there in the 90s and some groups (36 and Dre Dog jump to mind) were really taking it there. But it wasn't a predominant theme in the music as a whole. Like "40s and Blunts" Hennessey or Cristal.
The whole album leaked way early, that was right around the height of all those bootlegging groups.
Tical is weed with sherm. Like I said in the first post I was talking about PCP and no one is talking about just weed/alcohol, I also said that in the first post you quoted. There's tons of references to 'dust' on that album.
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
I'll take my L then.
No worries breh, its one of my favorite albums of all time so I know a lot about it. Method Man was heavily smoking dust while writing for the album by his own account.
That was a regional hit in the south only.
Tical was the only Wu solo I didn't get when it dropped. I went back and got it in 96-97? I didn't spend a ton of time with it.
Even with Wu rapping about it, would you agree that smoking dust was never a predominant theme though? In hip hop as a whole? It never got anywhere near as popular or widespread as "40s and blunts" Henny or Cristal.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Nah, that was everywhere out here too, made them recognizable, they were on my flight around that time
OnlyInCalifornia
Southern California/Vegas
Yeah it wasn't a dominating theme like guys who drink lean or pop pills now but it was still glorified just the same. I think partying has always been a theme in Hip Hop but getting specific didn't come till after the fact. You know those spinnin on their head muhfukkas were snorting coke but may not have rapped about it.
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
Three 6 started actually. The first dudes I ever heard admit to doin coke on record
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
Negative...song was nationwide. I lived in texas, moved to ohio...song had the same amount of popularity...They just didn't know what it was about up north...or made fun of the content.
"Y'all nikkas down there drinkin cough medicine cuzz?" - Ohio nikkas.
