t lie, She don't lie, She don't lie: Cocaine."- Eric Clapton.
An artist that recently was at our school not to long ago was Ben Harper. His fans are associated with Marijuana. In His song Burn one down He talks about the Use of Marijuana. "Let us burn one from end to end and pass it over to me my friend. Burn it long, we'll burn it slow to light me up before I go."-Ben Harper.
The promotion Of drugs in mucic lyrics was Relatively prevalent in a lot of the classic rock music during the 60's and 70's. Today it is found mostly in Rap but still is seen in Reggae and other genres. The promotion of drugs in music lyrics is something that has been around for a while and with the way things are going today it looks like Artists are going to continue talking about drugs in their music since it brings in so much money and it has made for so many great songs.
Another reason why we bring about this relation of Drugs to Music is because we see so many deaths that are caused by the use of drugs. Many artist have overdosed on drugs like heroine and they are sadly taken away from us. Some artist like Shannon Hoon from blind melon and Brad Nowell from sublime died due to drugs when they were just beginning to get recognition for their music.
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