Many within the Hip Hop community have reacted to the untimely passing of Juice Wrld, who died on Sunday (December 8). Joyner Lucas was among those adding his take on the tragic situation, placing the blame on rappers who glorify the use of drugs in their music.
“Juice WRLD was 21,” Lucas wrote. “He was a product of our generation of rappers who glorified drugs and made it cool. Im blaming Yal niggaz for this shit. All that lean and pills niggaz glorify and talk about. You teaching the kids to do it. Smh you happy now?Rip @JuiceWorlddd. Gone too soon.”
A fan pushed back at Lucas’ critique by claiming he didn’t know much about the late artist. Lucas responded by saying he didn’t mean the deceased rapper glorified drug use but asserted Juice was depressed and used them to cope.
“I never said juice world glorified them,” he noted. “I knew what juice spoke about. Poor kid was depressed and went thru a lot so he used drugs as a outlet. Its this generation of music that glorified drugs and made them cool so kids like him and other kids abuse them. It’s a cycle dude. Smh.”
In the aftermath of Juice’s death, details about his final moments have emerged.
Juice reportedly swallowed several pain killers in an attempt to hide them from the authorities at Chicago’s Midway Airport. He later suffered a seizure and collapsed at the airport before being pronounced dead at a hospital around 3:15 a.m.
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RIP to Juice Wrld but that fan is wrong. He glorified drugs and it was all his songs were about. Just because he said “he don’t condone it” doesn’t change the fact all he rapped about was drugs
The power of addiction is real. He could have simply flushed the pills in the toilet or threw them in the trash. Gone too soon.
He’s not wrong. Nothing’s gonna change, though- people are soft and would rather numb their issues than deal with them. Weed is ok sometimes, but if you’re recreationally taking opiates, you’re half a retard and are knowingly killing yourself.
I don’t care if the dude has a point. Any idiot can make this observation. A day after his death is not the right time at all and it comes across as self serving and disingenuous.
Good. Now call out Lil Wayne directly. He was the biggest rapper from 06-11, and he was the one to make opioids mainstream on the hip hop community. I said back then he was a trash human, making it cool to do drugs, catch gun charges, and knock up three women in one year (that really happened)
When Wayne was actually good, he wasn’t rapping about drugs except weed like 99% of every other rapper. So pin that shit somewhere else.
Problem is, he was never good.
FUCK YOU JOYNER. YOU COME FROM THE SOURCE OF THIS SHIT, MASSACHUSETTS FUCK OFF DUDE U DID NOTHING TO HELP UR DYING STATE. DONT U DARE EAT OFF AN ARTIST FOR HIS DEATH AND GET CLICKS. YOUVE DONE NOTHING TO HELP THE SHIT HOLE THAT IS WORCHESTER. YOUVE DONE NOTHING TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON. WE DONT LIKE YOU. YOU ARE A BITCH THAT WILL BE NOTHING. BETTER HOPE J COLE COMES AROUND… OH WAIT I WONT HEAR IT BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO TO ANOTHER FUNERAL FOR MY PEOPLES. FUCK OFF TRYNA GET HEADLINES OFF A REAL ARTIST NAME. FUCKER ACCEPT WHAT U ARE LIKE I DID. A FUCKING NOTHING. BITCH TRYNA GET HEADLINES OFF A GREAT REAL ARTIST. YOU SUCK AND JUICE WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER THAN U
Stfu
what in the fucc does joyner owe to boston and worcester? what does he owe to a bunch of caucasoid drug addicts and alcoholics? why cant these druggies check themselves into rehab and move on withtheir pitiful lives? what have you done to help? why are u so damn emotional that some negro that cant even rap made a dumb decision and paid the ultimate price? are u on drugs? u gotta be to say that the dead negro is a better rapper than joyner
No he wont cause dat boy is D.E.A.D
Worcester does suck but how is that Joyner’s fault ?
What LOL…. you seem so salty. A city being in a bad state is not his fault. Artists are not required to help their city. So calm down little boy.
You are corny af and sound real fuckin dumb…Joyner is nothing? Why because he raps about truth and not stupid fake ass bs he doesnt really do?Let me guess you’re probably a Tekashi fan too…Straight pussy gtfoh!!!
If you talking about weed you just as bad mane. SMH.
Lucas is an idiot. He needs to shut up. He hasn’t risen to role model. If he thinks he can solve why kids use drugs and you wanna blame “glorification”, you may as well get in line with the same idiots who thought rap music caused violence. No one has clear easy uncomplicated answers as to why folks use drugs and no one has an easy solution. You don’t use “good for you” but don’t go around preaching like you Malcolm X. Don’t judge when you don’t anyone that deeply. You ain’t no better than anyone
Found the drug addict.
This coming from a cat who has “fool” in his name, says it all. drugs, lean, and all that mumblerap nonsense is a widespread epidemic in mainstream Hip Hop and kids are glorifying it. You been living under a rock? Rappers are sharing their opinions on this bullshit lately like J. Cole and it definitely needs to be addressed.
A lot of people listen to people like JL_fool…that’s why we’re all fucked
fuck pillhead rap
There’s no way you can honestly say that rap music, especially current rap music, isn’t a bad influence on young people. It absolutely is. And I’m a lifelong Hiphop head. I used to defend rap music and blame anything except rap music, (and there are certainly many other entities that deserve a lot of blame for this opioid thing) but rap is at the forefront of it, especially for young blacks. I love rap music, but I admit that it is a bad influence, and I wouldnt want my kids listening to modern rap, it’s just too overtly negative. These songs are basically mantras for everything you DON’T want your kids to do, not even trying to camouflage themself as anything but pro-drug use anthems. And the radio plays it. And the networks love it. And the drug companies love it. And the kids die. This is NOT HipHop anymore. This is rap being corporatized and used as a weapon against its own people. But this is what America wants, sadly.
I sort of feel that way about gangsta rap as well. Very detrimental. A lot of folks tend to justify it, claiming that they’re speaking about what goes on in the streets. More than half of them are actually participants though, directly involved with the negativity that surrounds it. Another discussion for another day I suppose.
Haha you 2 sad old heads need to go back to sleep smh. Grown men out here can start and stop drugs when they want. Juice was a weak minded dude just like the rest. Mike jackson, Whitney, prince etc… all died from the same things. Stop acting like hip hop is the cause
Yep. Big three record companies got the dudes from the hood out of running shit, and now they promote and pump out this garbage. Strippers prostituting themselves for the girls and druggies for the boys.
Would love to see some traumatic shit happen to you and see how you cope with it, talk like such a big man but can bet my left nut you are a big BITCH!!!
um… people go through traumatic shit all the time and DONT resort to drugs. have you been coddled your whole life or?