It’s been almost three weeks since Juice Wrld died suddenly at Chicago’s Midway Airport. Although the official cause of death hasn’t been revealed, the 21-year-old rapper reportedly swallowed several Percocet pills while still on the plane and collapsed into a seizure moments later.
Vic Mensa believes some rap music is partially to blame. The Chi-Town native was stopped by TMZ outside of Delilah in Los Angeles where he was asked about Lil Pump’s recent decision to omit “Drug Addicts” from his Rolling Loud set out of respect for Juice Wrld.
Mensa essentially thinks it’s time for artists to use their platforms more appropriately.
“I think that, as members of the Hip Hop community, we need to take responsibility for the things that we say,” he said. “We need to recognize that the shit we talk about influences children. So when we are steady pushing a message of lean and Percocets and Xans, we are polluting the minds of the youth. We have a responsibility to give it to them in a real way.”
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Mensa makes sure to note that doesn’t mean you can’t tell your own story, but it needs to be done in a more responsible way.
“Not to say that you can’t talk about your real life and the things that are happening, but I think that we need to start holding each other and ourselves accountable for our glorification of the drug culture, 100 percent,” he added. “That’s just what it is. Anything else, that’s parasitic to our people to just act like this is the shit to be on lean all the time.”
Juice Wrld routinely talked about drug use in his music. In February, he admitted he was struggling with an addiction to lean but like Mac Miller and Lil Peep, it was evidently too late.
Vic as finally realised that rapping about drugs might have some influence. Wow I think I knew this 20 years ago. But at the same time rap ain’t responsible for juice wrlds death. Juice wrld was responsible for his own death. Swallowing 7 percocets can do that . People need to take responsibility and stop blaming everyone else. That’s the world we seem to live in now. Nobody is responsible for the things they do.
Dont blame drug use and complete lack of judgement on rap music. That’s on his parents.
Retard.
Shut yo bitch ass up, who blame for for puttin that dress on u lil pansie
Vic Mensa’s music is trash
This is actually the best words Vic Mensa has ever put together on any platform.
if rappers started taking responsibility as vic puts it, what will be the consequence?
You can blame rap for the popularization of the N-word, you can blame gangsta rap for making it look cool to be a low life gangbanger and you can blame rap for the ridiculous mysoginist macho culture in the black community. But you can’t blame rap for idiots getting hooked on the wrong drugs. I remember when the rap scene was weed, beer and liquor. Nothing more needed. Great times. Now it’s lean, blow, painkillers and xanax. Good luck with that.
People been dying from drugs long before Kool Herc spun a record…Vic Mensa just saying things for clout so he could get back in the blogs,worst kinda person
Vic shouldn’t blame rap music for Juice’s death because Juice has never been a part of this culture. He was a pop singer who couldn’t catch the right note even with autotune. He was actually black. Who cares? If he was hiphop it’s time to recognize Mike Patton as hiphop who has features from Kool Keith and Rahzel and made a whole album with the Xecutioners. Time to put System of a Down to your hiphop list who have a song with Wu-Tang Clan and Tech N9ne. Time to post some gossip about Britney on this site, as she has songs with Diddy, will.i.am,, Waka Flocka and The Neptunes. Let’s see how Xtine loses weight coz she had songs with Lil Kim, Redman and Primo produced severel tracks for her. Or… you can just stfu about Juice WRLD. If you hear any similarites between his music and the stuff by Das EFX, Nas, Mack 10, Eminem, Underachievers, G. Perico, Juvenile, Big KRIT, Black Moon, Rico Nasty, Elucid or Mystikal you are a fucking idiot and should not touch the keyboard again.
Imagine if rappers actually mentally checked themselves on there music then you wouldn’t have “hard rap” or gangster rap. Kinda catch 22. Juice was apart of the hip hip genre, it’s a wide genre. Idk what these crazy ppl talking about. Yeah it’s messed up, but we really gotta blame the pharmecutical companies for getting the youth hooked in the first place. Nip it at the source.