After Atlanta emcee T.I.’s recent arrest for possession of controlled substances, the Los Angeles Times decided to chronicle Hip Hop music’s history with Ecstasy. The newspaper discovered that over the past decade, the designer-made hallucinogen that was once resigned to the rave and hyphy scenes has made a significant impact on Hip Hop music, finding fans in everyone from Lil Wayne to Tech N9ne.
“In the last three years, it’s been shouted out in songs more than ever and, increasingly – if lyrics are any indication – washed down in the VIP room by some of rap’s best and brightest,” wrote author Chris Lee. “Just don’t go looking for them to shout out Ecstasy by name. Codified references to ‘X pills’ and ‘double stacks’ (as extra large tablets are known), being ‘geeked out’ or ‘feelin’ myself’ allow them to hide the drug’s usage in plain sight.” (LATimes.com)
Citing lyrics from songs like Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” and Nicki Minaj’s “Higher Than a Kite,” Lee hypothesizes that the increased presence of the drug in rap music has come out of a broadened relationship between rap and techno or electronica music. Yet this renewed interest in Ecstasy has already taken its toll with the accidental overdose of a Los Angeles teenager.
“[T.I.’s] bust arrives at a moment of renewed public scrutiny of Ecstasy, just three months after teenager Sasha Rodriguez’s overdose death from the drug at downtown Los Angeles’ Electric Daisy Carnival helped reestablish E’s reputation as a potential killer,” wrote Lee. “The recently released annual report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reveals that Ecstasy consumption has jumped 37% in America over the last year. Meanwhile, rave culture has made significant moves toward the mainstream, with bleary, Euro synth beats becoming the dominant sound of both hip-hop and Top 40 pop. Coincidence?” (LATimes.com)
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i never tried that shit just pass me the dutch!
Dont get it twisted… hip-POP Artist r the ones doing that shyt…That shyt is GAY
go ahead and blame the rap game like yall always do
I agree with JOE6PACKNCGBOR336…..bullshit man!
you guy’s are mad late, ja rule and em been talking about that shit years ago.
Mad Late? The Article was about how usage has risen, everyone knows this shit ain’t new.
stay off the beanz ppl
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iz you rollin???Bitch I might be.
its not what you do its how you do it. if you drink to much you could die. so its not about the drug its about the person. i tried X when i was younger and all it did to me was get my dick rock hard and make me wanna fuck for hours. if you have a weak ass mind then drugs are not for you period.
to be honest, drugs are for the week minded
Ecstacy is pretty fantastic if done maybe a few times a year but beyond that it can leave you a bit drained mentally. I personally hate to see drugs like it, with so much healing quality on a mental level sidelined but yet we have the shit that major pharma companies that cause entirely more deaths.
talkin bout me being at my ex- Stacy house, I’ve never bean there
These prohibitive agencies are a criminal gang of extortioners saving the healthy and disciplined from substances that give them unique control over having some of the best and most profound experiences in life (esp. psychedelics).
NIGGAS BE SWITCHIN TO THAT FUNNY WHITEBOY AND WHITEGIRL SHIT STICK TO DAT OLE HOOD SHIT NIGGA THAT BLUNT PUFFIN N ALL DAT. WEIRD ASS NIGGAS. IMA SMACK DA SHIT OUTT YALL.
u ain’t club like, me, I’m in the ghetto,were yo ebt at?, u aint’ got welfare like me, u can’t Medicaid like this? i got more bus transfers then u, u might catch me at the food pantry, Im’ the #1 man tree. you can’t ‘borrow’ one dollar bills like me, CAN I BORROW A DOLLAR! mother fucker I made for coolaid
NIGGA SHUT DA FUCK UP AND CHOKE ON A DICK LIKE YO BABY SISTER HOE ASS NIGGA
OMG HOW DID YOU NO BOUT MY BABIE SISTER, DID YOU DO IT?wuz if yo dick? did RAPE AND MURDER HER, KNOW ONE ELZ NEW? U BIG BASTARD HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY BABIE SISTER DIE ON UR BIG BLACK COCK, NO HOMO.
ur cool… as shit… like SO fucking cool. forreal. help me be you. like EXACTLY the same person as you. i cant wait to be straihhthood. actually tho if you ask anyone.. weed is a soft ass drug, and E is hands down the best high you will EVER have. its a fun ass high and youll never feel better than you will on E and it makes you just fucking love life and everything around you, who wouldnt want that? instead youd rather be sittin there with ur eyes low lookin like ur bout to pass out and feelin less than half of what you feel on E, and the best thing is the shit aint 1 bit addictive. learns ur shit gangsta, learns ur shit.
silkyjohnson you must be the dumbest motha fucka aliive. E may be a cool high, but its only is as tight as u say it is the 1st time u take it. after that, its never as good. thats why i stick with that good and them sweets. u smoke an L, u high as a bitch dont front. plus you cant die from weed… pretty sure the article says a bitch OD. you stupid nigga, im not hatin on ex, but in no way shape or form is it better than that bitch mary jane. yaaaaa bitch
MANN FUCK YOU BITCH ASS NIGGA, YOU AIN’T SHIT AND E AND WEED AIN’T SHIT, CRACK IS THE DRUG FOR EMPEROR KINGS HOE ASS NIGGA, YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU TRICK ASS MOMS B SMOKIN IT
hey you fucks, you ought to nut up and try ice, get ur dick hard for five days, plus u ain’t got to pay no body as long as u kept tight
How many people die from drinking and smoking and eating cheeseburgers every year, but one person ODs off X and it brings renewed “public scrutiny?” Drug policy makes no damn sense.
where da pill man at i need a blue dolphin
Fuck chemicals, trees bitch.
All you need.
fuckin lethargic no good bum hippie
pAIN KILLERZ ARE THE MAIN THING RIGHT NOW SHIT TAKIN OVA
“MY NIGGAZ POPPIN THEM PILLZ THAT SHIT GET ADDICTIVE I GET IT POPPIN FA REAL BITCH I GOT MY PRESCRIPTION ” RICK ROSS
“SOME SAY EX MAKE THE SEX-SPECTACULAR” BIGGIE CIRCA 96′..THESE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS R RIDICULOUS WITH THERE NEWS…
i rolled my tits off at the Glow in the Dark tour. i don’t even like Kanye but holy fuck that was a good time.
well im from the UK, we had xtc along before the states and i was 17 when i took my first one, started on the weekends then lead to the weekdayz, waking up in the morning on a mon or tue poppin a pill talking shit all day, and getting the alcohol str8 in me and toking a waterfall and pure pastying out, they were the dayz but eventaully i packed it in, theres more to life, but dont get me wrong i loveeeee weed, smoke it everyday, it makes food sex tv , everything more interesting lol but if you dont agree on drugs dont take them, if you do, get fucked off ur tits and do wat ever the fuck u want, its ur life
xtc was being used in the US long before anybosy even heard of it in the UK. u dont know what your talking about.
not nice to die from drugs, but she could of been allegic to the substance, or she choked on her vomit, or she took to much, x is one of the safest drugs out there ya dig
are you serious, they have records of people with wholes in their brain from using e. stop being a wanker
mdma only, always.
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did they REALLY not mention Mac Dre? and big ups @ anyone who does X cus i hope you know it’s all half meth.