04 01.2008 New study finds glamorization of drugs in rap music jumped dramatically over two decades

Results were further marred by other complicating factors, including a large number of patients who had previously used MDMA or other psychedelics drugs recreationally. The first two relate specifically to the form he filled out to purchase a gun in 2018, accusing Biden of lying about this drug use on the form. Prosecutors expect to spend three days laying out their case against President Joe Biden’s son to jurors. Although the crew is credited for influencing many modern rappers, its music was considered controversial as it often included sexually explicit content.

FBI witness says photo shows Hunter Biden shirtless holding a crack pipe

Before his death from a suspected overdose in 2017, Lil Peep talked about his depression in an interview with Pitchfork. The rapper and YouTube star said that he moved to California to distance himself from the people and places that led to his mental illness. But he continued to battle depressive thoughts, including suicidal ideations.

Hallie Biden granted immunity to testify about Hunter Biden’s drug use

When asked about his mental and physical health, Miller was confident about his progress and claimed he was “way healthier” than he was in the past, though the rapper acknowledged he still struggled with substance abuse. This cautionary tone about cocaine gave way to rap lyrics in the early 1990s that increasingly portrayed marijuana use as a positive activity. The UC Berkeley study documented a threefold increase between 1979 and 1997 in rap songs’ mentions of marijuana and marijuana-stuffed cigars, or “blunts,” and noted marijuana’s association in those songs with creativity, wealth and status. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of his Acid Rap project, the rap star opened up to Complex about his struggles with substance abuse during his early career days.

Jury hears excerpts from Hunter Biden’s memoir

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug overdose deaths increased by nearly five percent from 2018 to 2019 and have even quadrupled since 1999. While cocaine dominated the first half of the 2000s, another trend was brewing. Three 6 Mafia’s “Sippin’ On Some Syrup” and Big Moe’s City Of Syrup set the stage for hip-hop’s new drug of choice—lean. DJ Screw passed away in 2000 and UGK’s Pimp C died from a codeine overdose in 2007, right around the time Lil Wayne was diving in head first.

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• His friends described him as generally happy and not likely to succumb to drugs.
• ET, with prosecutors from special counsel David Weiss‘ office expected to lay out their case against President Joe Biden’s son in federal court in Wilmington, the largest city in the family’s home state, Delaware.
• Not that he’s totally out of the red zone (he recently had to close down a bunch of fast-food chicken restaurants), but at least he’s no longer battling an addiction to crack.
• According to a government court filing in the case, Jensen will introduce some of the prosecutors’ evidence, including text messages they say show Hunter Biden was using crack in the months before and after the gun purchase.
• Mixing codeine with prescription cough syrup can result in nervous system or respiratory depression.
• Prosecutors allege that members of the rappers’ gang were involved in two dozen violent incidents, including striking two bystanders when they opened fire on a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Prosecutor Derek Hines introduced the laptop to the jury, drawing excited whispers from the gallery, though it’s not clear that any of the jurors understood the significance of Hunter’s laptop. “I am so sorry,” Zoe Kestan texted Hunter Biden and in an apparent reference to drug paraphernalia. “I need more Chore boy but regardless come back and yes,” Hunter Biden responded over rappers who use drugs text. These bank statements, Jensen said, indicated that there were large cash withdrawals nearly every day of September, October and November 2018, totaling $151,640.45. Hines also read through messages between Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden on Oct. 23, 2018, the day she discovered the gun. “Law enforcement is trying harder and harder to crack down on xylazine,” Singer said.

The rapid rise of drug references laid waste to Ice-T’s message of abstinence, as Jay Z, the Notorious B.I.G., and Snoop Dogg dropped albums with first-hand accounts of the 1980s crack epidemic. Their experiences selling drugs (and smoking them) translated into platinum-selling records, fueling a generation of rappers intent on telling the story of the hustler. By 1998, cocaine had overtaken marijuana as rap’s most talked-about drug. This trend persisted through the early 2000s with Jay Z, Raekwon, and the Clipse—all of whom kept the hustler-rapper Mafioso persona at the forefront of hip-hop culture. While many musicians struggle with drugs and alcohol, others choose to remain sober or get clean after experiences with addiction. Some famous rappers who don’t drink or do drugs went to rehab while other sober rappers quit cold turkey.

Defense begins cross-examination of FBI agent

• At other times she appears to be looking directly at Hunter and over at the jury box — which is off screen of the overflow feed.
• But he continued to battle depressive thoughts, including suicidal ideations.
• Biden is charged with lying on a federal form and to the gun dealer about his drug abuse, which he chronicled in a 2021 memoir.
• There’s excitement and controversy swirling around the potential use of MDMA for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
• The active ingredient in the substance is THC, a psychoactive chemical that produces pleasurable effects.
• The FDA advisers also drew attention to allegations of misconduct in the trials that recently surfaced in news stories and a report by the nonprofit Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, which evaluates experimental drug treatments.

Jurors take notes during witness testimony