![]() By shamelessly leveraging the glamour of criminality, these rappers appeal to prurient middle-class audiences (including a sizeable white demographic) and by pointing a route out of poverty, they appeal to working-class ones too.Īround the turn of the century, rappers increasingly started dabbling in designer drugs, too, particularly ecstasy. The song’s pop beauty conjures a couple revelling not in the drug’s high, but the emancipation it gives them as a result of cash from its sale. On the 2014 mega-hit Trap Queen, Fetty Wap introduces his girl to his stove – he’s not showing off his new Aga, but rather where they will cook crack together. On Clipse’s Grindin’, Pusha T says that “four and half will get you in the game” and that he is known in the neighbourhood as Mr Sniffles, but his laser-precise flow suggests sobriety and business nous. Blended with a gin and juice, Snoop Dogg hymned the relaxing properties of marijuana (“laaaaaid back.”) while Cypress Hill synthesised its paranoia with the creepy malevolence of B-Real’s voice.Ĭrack cocaine was a different prospect: the rappers never got high on their own supply. The former is often used merely as a straightforward wealth signifier: Hennessy and Courvoisier cognac, Cristal champagne, Patrón tequila and Grey Goose vodka. ![]() Three drugs are most commonly associated with hip-hop: alcohol, weed and crack. ![]() His vision of drug-taking was not without pleasure, but certainly a means of escape as well as straightforward hedonism – a marked change in rap culture. Lil Peep also rapped about drug-taking: “I hear voices in my head, they tellin’ me to call it quits / I found some Xanax in my bed, I took that shit, went back to sleep” “Sniffin’ cocaine ’cause I didn’t have no Actavis / Smokin’ propane with my clique and the bad bitches” “Gettin’ high ’cause my life don’t mean shit to me”. ![]()
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