Drugs Drugs, Drugs.

Whether your names Kyle and you sell meow-meow out of a matchbox or your some mad sadistic bastard on COPS with a plentiful harvest in your cellar – off-kilter pharmaceuticals got them monies. And where would we be without em? Hunter S Thompson, Disney films, trap music (lol)…HUF Plant Life socks. Drugs shape that cultural and social wave like no other.

Somebody somewhere with a taste for rock & indie music takes that naughty drag of a funky cigarette at the age of sixteen then BANG. Next thing this kid knows he’s sat realming out on the train playing gabber on his phone speakers asking the grandma in the next seat if she wants a bump of ket.

Anybody who’s been over to the dark side has their own drug story. Breaking into national television studios and stealing cultural icons, seeing your own death in the paper, watching Felix Da Housecat’s face go thin then bloat back out again. I guess the Average Joe putting crystalline shit in their mouth can lick their ear until the sun comes up in the safe confines of the after-party. But what about the superstars in the limelight? That gurn is going international son. That empty baggie just turned into a news angle. Your face might be fine in the morning but your pupils won’t. How’s that headline look? SURREAL.

Hip hop on drugs – a brief oversight

• Rihanna smokes so much weed she forgets her own name and whacks fans in the face with microphones. “That bitch wouldn’t let go”. I’d say that’s hyperventilating adoration – not assault. Coming home from a gig with a bloody nose and two black eyes is a mark of authenticity in some circles…but not sure if that stands for underage girls in hot pants singing along off key to ‘Diamonds’.

• P Diddy once denied doing drugs in Ibiza. F-cked that one bro.

• Gucci Mane was so blazed during filming of a Spring Breakers sex scene that he passed out with a broad riding him like a pony. In Harmony Korine’s words – “At the end, [Gucci] woke up and was like, ‘I feel real nice. I feel like Mozart‘s on my d**k.’”

• Ri strikes again…because frankly weed is hardly that controversial. But clench jaw? Ohhh baby.

• 2Chainz stands alongside The Dream and Beyonce on ‘Turnt’ to tell the world ‘Shawty, I drink your bath water’. You sure bro? What salts did she use? Epsom? Or the cannibal kind?

• Lets not even touch on the purple, the drank, the purple drank, the sizzurp, the TEXAS fuckin’ TEA.

Lil Jon, Missy & JaRule, DMX …so many Molly’s have been popped in the past few years that rap music and trance jumped in bed together and made some shockingly deformed babies. Musically and socially, we’re all fucking sweating.