Mac Miller’s Death And Hip-Hop’s Growing Lean And Opioid Addiction

“I think we need to start taking a strong look into what’s happening in that person’s life and the reason they may take drugs.” In recent years, more US hip-hop stars have begun rapping about prescription pills used to treat pain or anxiety. The Pittsburgh rapper also explained exactly how he spiraled from using marijuana into harder drugs. He also admitted to having suicidal thoughts before releasing his album, on which he claimed “every single song is about coke [and] drugs,” in 2014. In spite of the never-ending generational divide amongst Hip Hop fans, the common enemy of addiction continues to cut through the lives and careers of rap legends young and old.

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The song prompted fellow rapper OG Maco to accuse Future of encouraging people to use drugs. Denise Herd, author of the University of Pittsburgh study, told The Washington Post that references to prescription cough medicine misuse in southern rap music may have influenced teens in Houston to abuse codeine-laced cough syrup. His team found that about 33.7 percent of rap songs on the Billboard charts contained at least one reference to alcohol. The rappers with the most alcohol mentions in their Billboard Hot 100 music during that time period were Flo Rida, Drake and Lil Wayne. Since the 1980s, rappers have referenced substance use in lyrics. Others have expressed concern about drug culture, emphasizing the negative consequences, including addiction.

• In his music, he reveals the mental health problems that have plagued him for years.
• She was arrested on Saturday by military police in Amsterdam, where she had started her European tour, before being fined and released.
• Despite this, African-Americans, who account for the majority of mainstream rap artists, largely do not seek treatment.
• “If you would have told me 365 days ago that I would be sober, happy, and about to be a mumma I would have laughed in your face. Life is truly amazing when you do the work. Thank you to everyone that has supported me on this journey.”
• Recently there has been a noticeable shift in the mindset of some MCs when it comes to self-medicating on opiates.

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• President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is expected to testify on Wednesday about the younger Biden’s drug use, which prosecutors contend he lied about to illegally buy a gun.
• In his song “U Said,” he talks about dealing with the emotional pain of a broken relationship by popping pills and getting high.

Since the beginning of his career, Snoop Dogg has made references to getting high in a collection of songs. One of his most successful tracks, “Gin and Juice,” includes lyrics about smoking “indo,” a slang term for marijuana. Rapper 50 Cent was exposed to drugs while living in the borough of Queens in New York City.

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But even when you’re not using, it’s a constant battle to stay sober. His autopsy noted that Perry had no other drugs in his system, and while he had been open about his struggles with addiction in the past, he had been 19 months sober at the time of his death. There was no evidence of illicit drugs or paraphernalia at his home. Elon Musk posted on X that he has a prescription for ketamine “for when my brain chemistry sometimes goes super negative.” Sharon Osbourne told People she underwent three months of ketamine therapy.

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• Jensen helped the prosecution introduce texts as evidence of Biden’s addiction to unlawful drugs, records of his cash withdrawals from banks and his 2021 memoir that chronicled his drug abuse.
• She is the first of three former romantic partners the prosecution has said it plans to call to establish Mr. Biden’s addiction to crack and continued drug use around the time he bought the gun in 2018.
• He lets the story loose in this incredible interview from the documentary How to Make Money Selling Drugs, and it hits home as a dark reminder of how serious these funny rhymes about drugs can actually be.
• The president’s son is charged with lying on a federal form and to a gun dealer about whether he was addicted to drugs when he bought a pistol in 2018.
• The two criminal cases are unrelated, but their proximity underscores how the courts have taken center stage during the 2024 campaign.

She attended her first meeting on Feb. 3, 1999, the same day she revealed her struggle to her filmmaker husband Christopher Guest. “He was incredulous that he’d never noticed,” Curtis said, adding that she’s been sober ever since. “For the last eight weeks maybe, I don’t really know…I’m on them all day,” he said on his Armchair Expert podcast.

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By the mid-1990s, the percentage of rap songs with drug references increased from just four tracks in the early 1980s to 45 percent of all hip-hop tracks. “It does not say ‘have you ever been,’” and he suggested the president’s son did not think of himself as someone with a drug problem when he purchased the gun. In addition to the federal gun trial, Hunter Biden faces federal charges in California over failure to pay $1.4 million in taxes, which he later paid to the government. The gun and tax charges both stem from a failed plea agreement between Biden and federal prosecutors that collapsed last summer. A trial in the tax case is set to begin Sept. 5 in Los Angeles, just before Joe Biden and Trump are scheduled for a debate. Hines told jurors they would next hear from Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, as well as his former girlfriend Zoe Kestan, and Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother Beau Biden.

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“What a difference a year can make,” she began an Instagram post at the time. “If you would have told me 365 days ago that I would be sober, happy, and about to be a mumma I would have laughed in your face. Life is truly amazing when you do the work. Thank you to everyone that has supported me on this journey.” And of her drug abuse, the Fashion Police alum told host Jada Pinkett Smith it began at age 13. “I kept getting sick and I had a really bad case of tonsillitis, they ended up having to give me some crazy surgery, and then after that, they gave me Vicodin,” she explained. The third charge pertains to Biden’s possession of a firearm while he was allegedly an unlawful user or addicted to controlled substances.

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While the group had two semi-successful studio albums, Kelly attended school to become a studio engineer and remained working in music until his death in 2013. While some suspected that he was suffering from cancer, he never confirmed it. Spurred by the arrival of Cypress Hill’s self-titled debut album in 1991 and Dr. Dre’s The Chronic in 1992, marijuana’s popularity increased exponentially, peaking in 1993 as the most popular drug in hip-hop.

Future has a song called Codeine Crazy, Lil Yachty has one called Lean and Lil Uzi Vert raps that he’s “so relaxed on a Xanax” in Canadian Goose. He was called insensitive by fellow rapper Smokepurpp, who said that he shouldn’t use someone’s death “to make yourself look cool”. However, since the death of Lil Peep, some – like rapper Russ – are questioning whether lyrics in the genre are going rappers addicted to drugs too far. When asked about his new album on Sept. 6, Miller told Vulture that he enjoys — and actually prefers — the ups and downs in life. “I don’t believe in absolute anything, but I think not sharing that type of information, because it becomes like, ‘Oh he’s sober, oh he’s not, oh he has a beer, oh my God.’ I just realized some things are important to just keep for yourself,” he added.