Mac Miller Dead: Late Rapper Spoke of Drug Use and Getting Sober

By the mid-1990s, the percentage of rap songs with drug references increased from just four tracks in the early 1980s to 45 percent of all hip-hop tracks. A juror dropped out the day after being selected for Hunter Biden’s federal trial on gun charges because she didn’t have transportation from rappers who use drugs southern Delaware to the Wilmington courthouse, U.S. Prosecutors called their first witness on Tuesday, questioning FBI special agent Erika Jensen. She’s expected to discuss the investigation into Hunter Biden, including messages he exchanged in 2018, bank statements and other evidence.

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MDMA’s main effect is to trigger feelings of intimacy, connection and euphoria. When used to enhance talk therapy, the drug appears to help patients process trauma and let go of disturbing thoughts and memories. In recent years, ketamine prescriptions have increased along with a black market business for those self-medicating or using the drug recreationally. “The fact that this study has so many white participants is problematic, because I don’t want something to roll out that only helps this one group,” said Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, the group’s patient representative.

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• Kamaiyah and Tyler and Yachty are earning radio play and performing at colleges across America and taking their acts to late-night television to perform for millions.
• Hunter got Hallie Biden to use drugs as well, Hines said, but she was clean by the time Hunter purchased the gun.
• His music covers topics ranging from depression and suicide to benzodiazepine use.
• Herd said that after rap albums celebrating marijuana use started going platinum in the early 1990s, drug references became increasingly common in rap music, as if they were a key ingredient to success.
• This South Florida boy’s had to struggle with more than just some “Ice Ice Baby.” Bro was feeling way down after his shameful exit from the spotlight, and in the mid-’90s, he turned to ecstasy, coke, and heroin.

Panelists pointed to flawed studies that could have skewed results, missing follow-up data on patient outcomes and a lack of diversity among participants. The vast majority of patients studied were white; only five Black patients received MDMA, raising questions about the generalizability of the results. FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen testified that Hunter Biden bought liquor with check cards, despite his lawyer arguing that he often withdrew large amounts of cash from his account because he had no credit cards. When asked which journalists have corroborated that figure, Cheung cited an article in Voz Media. The article does not say the outlet independently verified that there were 25,000 people there. It links the claim to a Fox News story, which in turn attributed the number to the Trump campaign.

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Lil B takes the top spot for referencing cocaine, codeine and MDMA (surprising, despite his seemingly endless discography). Eminem mentioned pharmaceutical drugs most, while Three 6 Mafia cited marijuana more often than anyone else. A 2008 study conducted by the University of California, Berkley found that drug references in rap music increased drastically from 1979 to 1997. Researchers examined drug mentions in 341 rap songs during that time. For years, rap music has glorified substance use, portraying getting high as an activity with little consequence.

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Through the years, various high-profile rappers have entered rehab for substance abuse or mental health problems. Denny Kolsch, an Orlando-based mental health counselor who specializes in addiction and mood-related disorders, says that socioeconomic factors may be another reason African-American rappers allude to drug use in their music. His team found that about 33.7 percent of rap songs on the Billboard charts contained at least one reference to alcohol. The rappers with the most alcohol mentions in their Billboard Hot 100 music during that time period were Flo Rida, Drake and Lil Wayne.

He tells in the above video about how his children were his inspiration to finally get clean. But even when you’re not using, it’s a constant battle to stay sober. Recently there has been a noticeable shift in the mindset of some MCs when it comes to self-medicating on opiates. Miller’s career took off in 2011 when he released his debut album Blue Slide Park.

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“If the drug trafficking organizations are interested in adding a sedative [to their street drug mixes] they can always add medetomidine.” Experts say the decision to experiment with xylazine, medetomidine or other chemicals in illicit street drug combinations likely reflect which substances are cheap, poorly regulated and readily available. “There is an almost endless supply of new psychoactive substances and there are literally thousands and thousands of drugs that can be made,” she said.

• XXL gathered a list of rhymers who recently walked away from their most detrimental vice.
• She and Hunter Biden were in a relationship following Beau Biden’s 2015 death and during the time the gun at the center of the case was purchased.
• The excerpts have included his self-described “superpower” of being able to buy crack in any town anywhere.
• Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell told jurors that what the prosecution can’t show is that Hunter Biden went to the store with the intent to buy a gun and that he considered himself an addict at the time.
• In fact, one of the most popular rappers of the modern generation, Kendrick Lamar, first came on the scene with a sobriety anthem disguised as a party song.

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Dr. Brendan Hart at Temple University in Philadelphia says they first began hearing reports of street drug users exposed to the fentanyl-medetomidine mix in April. Medetomidine, most often used by veterinarians as an animal tranquilizer, but also formulated for use in human patients, has also been linked to recent “mass overdose outbreaks” in Chicago and Pittsburgh. “I’m not convinced at all that this drug is effective based on the data I saw,” said Dr. Rajesh Narendran, a University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist who chaired the panel. But the panel struggled with the reliability of those results, given the difficulties of objectively testing psychedelic drugs.

To make matters even more dire, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been solely blamed for making the nation’s drug epidemic “worse,” so reports the American Medical Association. To close out 2021, President Joe Biden launched dual executive orders to combat what they call a “billion-dollar business” responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Americans in just the span of a year. Yet, this country has seen “war on drugs” initiatives crash and burn in the past — a point JAY-Z so confidently pointed out in 2016. Twelve jurors – six men and six women – had been chosen Monday, along with four women alternates. Morris told lawmakers he is not a registered lobbyist, he has no ulterior motive, and there is no corruption involved in their relationship.