now i think by now we can all agree that hip hop does have an issue with drugs and it's clear to
see that just from the past few years and the legendary artists we've lost now it seems that
isn't the only potential losses we could have had i'm going to explore that in this video
and talk about my thoughts on the whole culture around hip-hop right now before i jump into it
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clicked and let's move into it for me personally when i think about artists that sadly succumb to
drug problems the first one that comes to mind is always juice wrld maybe that's a little bit biased
on my part because he was probably one of my favorite artists in recent years and the death of
juice wrld really did hit me hard now i might have spoke about this in previous videos but i remember
it sounds kind of random but i'll just tell the story sat in a cafe with my girlfriend never been
in there before it's just like some random cafe a shopping center and i saw some posts i think
it was no jumper on twitter saying that rest in peace juice well i was like what the what the
[ __ ] am i looking at right now like it was too surreal to even believe for a moment and it was
one of them moments where like you you just sat there having a nice day and suddenly everything
becomes [ __ ] now if you guys like juice wrld you'll agree with me you know you never met the
guy you know realistically nothing about him but you know to have that connection with his music
and then to see him sadly pass away in such tragic circumstances just really does hit different and i
remember walking out that cafe and it might sound stupid but to this day every time i look at that
place i just get reminded and i never want to go back there it's kind of a weird one um i'm sure
you guys got some similar experiences with that one but the point i'm trying to get across is
we've seen way too many tragic deaths from drugs and clearly preventable things and it really is
because there is some sort of culture some sort of i don't want to say it's cool i mean you could
argue like there is kind of a culture of it being cool to do drugs and pop pills which i think we
can all agree really ain't the case and yeah [ __ ] is just sad at this point of course there is the
juice world documentary of which so far stupidly i've only seen clips of i will definitely be
checking that out and i'll probably make a video talking about my thoughts on it but yeah i do need
to watch that for sure and the clips i have seen are honestly pretty damn awful the first one i
can think of is juice world like there's a video of him sticking his tongue out and there's like
six pills on there and you know when you see stuff like that it's just no surprise that he came to
the tragic fate that he did come to and of course it is really really sad you know the worst bit is
that he's not the only artist you guys know that as well as anyone of course we've seen mac miller
pass on similar circumstances same again with lil peep you know very much loved artists little
people very much at the start of his career mac miller had done so much and was loved by so many
seemed to be such a likable guy and it's just such an awful circumstance to see rappers pass away
in these circumstances now of course all the way back in 2017 now when we lost little peep i
believe it was november just around the time i was starting to get into him as an artist i remember
seeing like some awful videos floating around on social media where you could see that he had od'd
um yeah i think it was becksy that was on the tour bus with him now i'm not like throwing any shade
i don't really understand the circumstances in which it happened we all know lil peep had
a drug problem and i think you could argue not enough was done by the people around him to take
him out with that situation and of course in a similar situation to what we saw with juice world
he of course took too much one day and now we're at these terrible circumstances where we've lost
some of the best new wave rappers some of the most likable rappers in the game have succumbed
to really preventable drug problems and this is what i'm saying about there being a culture of
drugs in hip-hop it really has become like i said somewhat cool to do these drugs which we all know
are terrible for you i'm obviously not talking about things like weed i mean that's a totally
different story you know um if you're gonna smoke weed i mean [ __ ] go for it man you're not gonna
kill yourself for that [ __ ] but some of these pills and the lean that [ __ ] just ain't good for
no one and the fact that it's cool in the industry we really need to change now to move on what was
very much a near miss in terms of new wave rappers nearly succumbing once again to prescription drugs
now to set the scene for a moment you guys know an artist that i really do follow quite heavily
is polo g a lot of people do seem to be a very big fan of him in terms of the new wave scene and he's
definitely one of the favorites and you know love him or hate him undeniably there's a lot of talent
there and he's been showing that in recent years now recently one of his favorite or one of his
favorite one of his biggest tracks and probably one of his breakout tracks heartless which had
some dope visuals to go along with it actually hit a hundred million views and when this happened
he posted on his story to say backstory for that video i was fresh out the hospital bed from almost
overdosing on them pills i'd pop right back out and shoot that video now that [ __ ] platinum with
a hundred m's by it now after seeing this i did a bit more research into the topic bearing in mind
this was back in 2019 and actually found out some details that were announced all the way back then
but simply pass me by and it's pretty interesting to know how bad things could have been for polo g
this was the article that we saw a few years ago in which it goes polo g claims he almost
lost his life on monday august 12th which was around when heartless dropped and around when
the music video was released so i'm assuming this is all tied into this polo posted photos
of himself in the hospital after a night where he says he got a little too lit in the photos we can
see polo's born named john wayne on his id band from the hospital as well as a close-up of his iv
he also included a photo of him and his dad who was there for him during his time of need now
of course some of you guys might well be aware of this story but for me this was well before polo g
was on my radar so to actually see this was pretty damn wild and realized how we could have lost polo
g just as his career was starting up now like i said heartless was one of his breakout tracks and
for him to nearly pass away before he had time to drop that nearly succumbed to you know what
has been a fate for way too many rappers which is overdosing on pills it's pretty crazy to know
that polo g came within touch and distance of that i'm glad we didn't see that sad fate once
again according to google at least pology had a kid on july 6 2019 so it would have been even
more horrific just a few months after that it is pretty wild to see how drugs have have had and
really let's be honest still do have a hold of the hip hop scene we nearly lost one of the best new
wave artists to go along with of course x although that wasn't drug related but juice world little
peep mac miller you name it there's been way too many people that have passed from really really
preventable reasons inevitably moments like this do send shockwaves through the hip-hop community
and pologies near miss i'm sure did as well now i remember not long after we actually saw pology
on a posthumous juice world track in which he said that he stopped taking pills and he popped
his last one with juice world so it does seem like the loss the tragic loss of juice world
and polo g's near miss really did make him realize that he needed to fix up and stop taking them
and i'm pretty glad he did and i'd like to think to this day he still sticks by that
of course i don't think it's quite as sweet as that across the rest of the hip-hop community we
still see a lot of artists kind of glorifying and drinking lean i feel like future used to be pretty
bad for that but in the recent years i do think he has laid off it i also think he's stopped drinking
himself and he doesn't promote it quite as much in his music which is a step in the right direction
but of course not perfect now um with that said i mean we've got you think about artists like yeet
who have recently been coming up and i've seen some photos of him recently everyone talks about
how he drinks lean he's mentioned it in his songs people saying about a lean gut coming on like the
[ __ ] is just sad at this point man like we've got to a point where rappers come up and they
think like when they start getting a few racks the cool thing to do is to buy some lean buy some
sprite and start sipping like we the the problem is the culture at that point it shouldn't be
seen as as cool that should be seen as like some junky [ __ ] stuff that no one wants to get into
not the thing you do when you get your first check another one that springs to mind is trippy red an
artist i follow for years and i remember back in 2017 or 2018 he said about how terrible lean was
he called actually a liquid heroin of course as well i think it was on juice world day when he
performed at the juice world memorial show we saw him pouring out a big bottle of lean which
was a cool image to hopefully show that he was done with it but we see we've still seen images
and rumors of trippie still drinking lean now i'm not trying to be the fun police or anything
but you know i don't want to lose any more rappers that i like and enjoy listening to
i just don't want to see no more of that [ __ ] i wish things could change within the industry now
looking back at this video i've probably sounded like the most boring bastard ever but with that
said i'm just tired of seeing tragic deaths like juice wrld mac miller lil peep way too much talent
has gone to waste for reasons that we could just prevent and i wish the culture kind of allowed
for that and didn't promote these terrible drugs anyway with that said that's pretty much my rant
over let me know what you think in the comment section probably gonna get called the fun police
for this video and frankly you're probably right i just don't ever [ __ ] with any of these drugs
like i said like if you're gonna smoke weed man go for it that [ __ ] ain't gonna do you no harm but
um yeah when people are talking about all these crazy [ __ ] pills and lean and that [ __ ] just
makes me sad man we don't need that in the hip hop community like i said let me know your thoughts
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