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Roc Nation’s Vic Mensa is letting emotions get the best of him. The hip-hop newcomer has called out rappers like Future for using drug-riddled lyrics to push their music.
In a new interview, Vic talked about the recent epidemic of “drug rap” continuing to take over the music biz.
“To be honest, it’s like, on one hand I almost don’t even feel that I have a right to chastise anybody because I’ve f*cking done it. I’ve rapped about Xanax. I regret it. I don’t rap about it anymore, but I have some lines about taking Xanax. I just think that we’re in such a dangerous place now because it’s been normalized and the drug abuse has been reduced to like a marketing tactic. You got Future talking about “I just rap about drugs because I know that’s what sells, that’s what people want to hear.” While people are overdosing left and right. It’s really representative of the state of the nation, but it’s also horribly irresponsible because you got kids that idolize these people and will do anything they do. They’re being misled but their f*cking heroes and getting addicted to Xans or Percocets and dying from them. So, it’s pretty f*cked.” (Billboard)
Recently, Atlanta rappers T.I. and 21 Savage talked about how drug raps have been around for decades.
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Coincidentally, Waka Flocka Flame recently questioned hip-hop veteran Pete Rock for publicly slamming him for not putting respect on older generations.
A few days prior, Rock publicly let loose on Waka and gave him a hip-hop history lesson.
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