Quavo’s drug use is as improvisatory as it is blithe, and is just one example of a rap scene where substance abuse has become normalised. Rapper Lil Peep dies aged 21 of suspected overdose Read moreThis permissiveness has claimed a talented victim in Lil Peep, a New York-born 21-year-old rapper who died this week of a suspected overdose. He is also filmed dropping bars of Xanax, the anxiety medication that has become perhaps the most fashionable drug in 2017’s rap scene, into his mouth. But it’s Xanax – the drug Lil Peep boasted about taking six of in a video hours before his death – that has become the most prevalent. In Houston’s “chopped and screwed” scene, rap tracks are radically slowed down, designed to match and enhance the corporeal sluggishness that comes from drinking codeine cough syrup.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2017 17:46 UTC