Originally Posted by baddog

Disclaimer: I didn't see TheSquealer's post before coming up with mine, so the apparent overlap is coincidental. The fact that two people that probably have little in common feel the same way should probably tell you something; but won't.

The fact that you cannot count the number of songs that "glorified heroin" sounds like a personal problem. If there are 50 I would be surprised. I cannot believe I am saying this, because I said the same thing to my son about 20 years ago; but, not all drug songs are meant to "glorify drugs." Fairies Wear Boots is an example of a song that when I first heard it live as a 16 year old on Orange Sunshine I thought it was glorifying drugs. After I came down and listened to the words I realized it was the opposite.



But here is the difference, any songs that may have glorified heroin did not cause an entire culture/race to suffer decline. I don't think that even you or blackmonkey can deny that the introduction of crack cocaine was a terrible blow (pardon the pun) to the black community. The fact that any black role models continue to extoll coke as something cool is pretty sad.