Joyner Lucas was a recent guest on Hot 97’s Ebro In The Morning where the “I’m Not Racist” MC spoke on a variety of topics, including the current state of Hip Hop. Around the 12-minute mark, the Massachusetts native talks about his feelings towards promoting drug use in music. He specifically mentions Lil Wayne, who has openly professed his love of Lean, and Future, who has multiple songs about popping pills.
“I’ve never been into artists promoting drugs,” he said. “When you say those things, you telling the listener to go do the shit. At the end of the day, I don’t promote any artist, I don’t care who the fuck … Wayne … it don’t matter who you are. Anytime I hear an artist promoting drugs … even Future, ‘Percocet, molly, Percocet,’ I don’t like that shit.”
“Let’s not promote that,” he continued. “Let’s not get these kids to start doing this shit ’cause they will. They will do this shit. They are.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he addressed the Lil Pump “Gucci Gang” controversy and reiterated that it wasn’t a diss track.
He also dove into the concept of the “I’m Not Racist” video and touched on some of the backlash he received as a result of its racially-charged content.
“I can’t make everybody happy,” he said. “That was calculated as well. There would’ve been no resolution if I would’ve went as hard with the black cat as the white man. I didn’t want to do that because I wanted to create a resolution, so I let this white man speak. I let him do his thing, but if I would’ve just straight up bashed the shit out of him like people wanted me to, then I feel like I would’ve been adding to the problem.”
Watch the entire interview above.
I’m a huge Joyner fan, but he’s kinda contradicting himself a bit…
“I think I’ma sell drugs to the kids in school/I think I’ma get buzzed if it gets me through…”
-Ultrasound
He was being sarcastic when he said that dumbass
Haha guess I need to listen a bit more closely then
you obviously have a hard time telling if someone’s serious or sarcastic.. 🙂
It’s the jevvs pushing it.
Finally…someone peaks up…stupid rappers telling kids do drugs..an go to jail u will b popular..
I agree totally. When we was kids coming up we had positive music to listen too. Most of these rappers rap about street lives that they never even lived! It’s time to hip hop back and once that happens we will get our children back!
Welp their goes any features with any artist that talk that drug talk
First it was cool to rap about selling drugs and destroying your own community. Now it’s cool to rap about doing them while it destroys oneself. BOTH corny.
Systematic Genocide.
Exactly stop the drug talk. When I was young Rap had a positive message like killing people, Gang Violence, Drug dealin and other Criminal Acticities. Because Drug selling is way better than taking drugs. Always remember that kids. SMFH
thank you!
In the words of 2pac “thats just the way it is”
So let me get this straight. When a rapper mentions drugs, it’s definitely promotion. However, when Joyner disses Lil Pump, it isn’t a diss? How can one notion be a certainty and not the other? Being judgemental is like the least hip hop shit in the world.
Bruh it was a diss. Joyner is playing a game for sure with that shit and idk about anyone else but i love it.
The shit on drugs is real talk though. Future has got 16 year old rich kids dying off this shit when they have no business being around it
Not to be crass, but I invite them to think for themselves. Artists dont owe anybody anything and rapping about their lives is self expression.
Im addicted to crack and it’s not my fault, it’s cos DMX made me do it!!
Kendrick said this years ago. He told rappers to stop rapping about molly.
Finally…. A leader not a follower… Rare..
Joyner is awesome! I love how humble he is. What a positive role model for our youth!