When/why did it become cool to be the dope fiend in rap?

[Black_Jesus]

3-6 mafia popularized and glorified being a dope fiend and pill poppers

 

[DailyBread]

And, oh yeah, to all them rap-ass nikkas
With your half-assed rhymes
Talking about how much you get high, how much weed you smoke
And that crazy space shyt that don't even make no sense:
Don't ever speak to me when you see me, know what I'm saying, word
I'ma have to get on some ole "high school" shyt
Start punching nikkas in they face just for living

^^ Last time I heard a hardcore rapper clowning smoking weed.

 

[MaLi]

When the bosses realized they could kill two birds with one stone and started searching out rappers, and paying them to promote it in their music

 

[ridedolo]

as mentioned i think it was wayne

i remember hearing i feel like dying like

 

[EndDomination]

Right


Im from Cleveland...6 blocks down from where Bone started off. They was making Weed Anthems going all the way back to 1993

You from 105th

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

8 ball and St. Ides and Hennessey is just as destructive

funny how people overlook this. alcohol has damaged the black community just as much as drugs has. there's a reason white folks loved giving drank to the Native Americans

 

[Newzz]

You from 105th

105 and Empire


10-5

 

[CrimsonTider]

funny how people overlook this. alcohol has damaged the black community just as much as drugs has. there's a reason white folks loved giving drank to the Native Americans

No it hasn't

 

[Broad Street Bully]

Nitpicking? He blatant says he doesn't do drugs in a song about being true to your self.

And this is coming from a gangster rap group.

And then an album called "The Chronic" drops by him years later

 

[dennis roadman]

That was a regional hit in the south only.

nah

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

And then an album called "The Chronic" drops by him years later

Rappers with ghost writers are like ron burgundy. They'll spit whatever you put in front of them. shyt, Eminem had ol boy spitting rhymes about extacy.

 

[Tom Foolery]

You have to understand that back in the 80s and 90s we had huge anti drug campaigns to keep people level headed.

Could you imagine being in the 80s/90s and someone telling you smoking crack is cool.

 

[feelosofer]

Hip-hop and drug use has always been somewhat interconnected. But I think when Wayne blew up the ecomnomy had came crashing down and people increased the use of downers as a coping mechanism. Back when I was younger (the early-late 80's), there was more afrocentrism in hip-hop and one of the principles was keeping a clear head as those crackfiends and dope users were seen as a sort of lost people. I think that drug use is more prevalent in popular culture than it has been hip-hop was just a part of that wave. I mean even Wu-Tang, Biggie, Artifacts, Redman were heavy into weed and angel dust and stuff. But drug use has always been in the culture to varying degrees.

 

[#SOG_soldier]

Son did u start listening to rap in 07? Just stop already it never was "cool" in hip hop to be hooked on hard drugs before this gen.

how is lean and molly hard drugs



if it aint crack, meth, or H it aint a hard drug breh

 

[Consigliere]

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