Mixing codeine with prescription cough syrup can result in nervous system or respiratory depression. Dr. Chris Johnson, an emergency room physician, said that codeine-based cough medicine can be as dangerous as other opioids and that misusing these medications can result in serious physical and psychological problems. However, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and other rappers who have glamorized marijuana use often fail to mention its consequences. Short-term side effects of cannabis use include memory loss, hallucinations and psychosis.

• The 22-year-old rapper received widespread love from his collaborators and loved ones including the likes of renowned rappers like Gucci Mane.
• Patrick Williams, 26, an independent rapper from Orange, Texas, with the stage name PatvFoo, is no stranger to addiction.
• This may be due to socio-economic factors or distrust of the U.S. health care system.

All three of Kneecap are great in the film, so good that I initially thought Próvaí was played by a professional actor. They did drama lessons for six weeks – “staring into each other’s eyes, which was strange, but we loved it in the rappers on drugs end” – and on the first day, which involved Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap digging a hole in Próvaí’s back garden, the film set was packed. They discovered later that it was because everyone was so worried that they wouldn’t be able to act.

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But he's not the first rapper to fall victim to addiction, and thankfully, he's still alive. By 2008, 58 percent of all our prisoners were African American or Hispanic, despite comprising 25 percent of the total population. One of the few silver linings of this new round of pain being inflicted on America’s traditional victims is that it produced an art form which has come to dominate popular culture through its sound and its message.

Hamilton argues that acceptance from local underworld figures was a necessity for successful rappers of the ’80s and ’90s. The godson and a childhood friend of Jam Master Jay were found guilty by a jury on Tuesday for the 2002 murder of the Run-DMC rap pioneer, who was fatally shot at his New York City recording studio in one of the most infamous killings in rap history. Baatin, born Titus Glover, was a member of Detroit rap group Slum Village. He was found in his home on Anglin Street in northeast Detroit, where it was later revealed that he had an accidental cocaine overdose.

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The drugs were thought to be a mixture for “purple drank,” a combination of codeine and promethazine, a common drug reference in southern hip-hop culture. Valium and PCP were also found in his blood during the autopsy. “After Peep died, a lot of people stopped partying every day,” says Morgan.