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Do you do drugs? If so, you probably also like rap music. How did I know that? Because, according to new research, all rap musicians do is glamorize drugs!

Rap music has increasingly glamorized the use of illegal drugs, portraying marijuana, crack and cocaine as symbols of wealth and status, according to a new study by the journal Addiction Research & Theory.

After sampling 341 lyrics from rap music's most popular hits between 1979 and 1997, the researchers found references to drugs had increased six-fold over that period.

Um, OK: Besides being useless, old news, this study is also wrong, as anyone who has listened to rap between 1979 and 1997 can tell you. If those researchers can show me a verse in any of the study's 341 "popular hits" that glamorizes the use of crack, I will gladly relinquish my Hip Hop Head card. (Selling crack, yes — which, admittedly, is reprehensibly selfish — but using?) And then there's this: "'Fat sacks' and 'strapped horns' refer to cocaine smoking pipes, according to the study." Ha! "Fat sacks" means crack pipe!!??!?!?!?! What kind of rap are these people listening to, and why the hell are they allowed to be authorities on hip hop culture? Is it any wonder worried parents in the suburbs can't understand "these kids and their rap hop"?

Apr 2, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood · Link · 23 Responses
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  • Comments (23)

    No. 1 SnackySmores says:

    Wait, so fat sack doesn't mean kittens and rainbows, it means crack pipe?? Whoa, I was way off.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 3:46 pm
    No. 2 Sugar Magnolia says:

    Hmmm. At my house, "fat sack" just means a half ounce of the really good weed.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 3:47 pm
    No. 3 SnackySmores says:

    Hey Sugar Magnolia, can I come live at your house?

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 3:48 pm
    No. 4 deimos says:

    yeah, that's what it means at my house to sugar but maybe these desk jockeys know something i don't.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 3:49 pm
    No. 5 Stoney says:

    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "fat sack" refers to a baggy with a shitload of drugs packed in.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 3:54 pm
    No. 6 ilnazhad says:

    Fat Sack is my nickname. I love my granny.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm
    No. 7 Nicolyn says:

    Are these desk jockeys on acid?

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:09 pm
    No. 8 Sugar Magnolia says:

    @ Snacky:

    What stoner wouldn't want smores when they have a bag of the good stuff? C'mon over. You too deimos.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:11 pm
    No. 9 Sugar Magnolia says:

    Nicoly:

    Acid = Party Llamas

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:12 pm
    No. 10 Lisa (#1) says:

    Four words: elephantiasis of the scrotum. Rap hop is very concerned with water bourne parasites. Sug, I'll be over after work.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:21 pm
    No. 11 Sugar Magnolia says:

    I'll have one packed up and ready for you Lisa!

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:22 pm
    No. 12 long ass lips says:

    I always thought 'fat sack' was when your testicles swelled up. Elephantitus, anyone?

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm
    No. 13 long ass lips says:

    damn you Lisa (#2). Great minds think… at least part of the time.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:26 pm
    No. 14 adeline.jane says:

    fat sacks are what is sucked when something sucks real bad! as in 'that fat hick who left me a 10% tip sucks a fat sack, what a jerk!'

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:26 pm
    No. 15 stopthemadness says:

    fat sack = big ass bag of weed.

    phat sack = bag of quality weed.

    fat phat sack = big ass bag of quality weed.

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 4:55 pm
    No. 16 Lisa (#1) says:

    LAL, oh no you didn't bitch! I am number one, tried and true. If you need proof, well, just look at post #10, and #12. Who do you think you are, with your weak-ass elephantitus. Elephantiasis is where it's at beyotch! Don't make me cut you!

    (sooooo I assumed you are a girl, because of the name, like you have some. Then I thought, "self, maybe it is a HE and he LIKES, LAL. So, if you are a he, make "beyotch" "pussy" or perhaps "dicknose/needle dick," kthxbai!)

    Posted: Apr 2, 2008 at 6:29 pm
    No. 17 queencrone says:

    We all know what "fat sack" is.

    No one has adressed the term: "strapped horns".

    Left to my imagination, I have come up with a lot of sexual things that strapped horns could be.

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 12:18 am
    No. 18 YerMom says:

    Fat sack in my house means a bag of the really cheap stuff. It is a much better deal.

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 1:03 am
    No. 19 Lisa (#1) says:

    QC: it is when a unicorn doesn't fit in with the other horses, so he pulls the horn to the side of his head and covers it with his mane. Kind of a like a tranny who doesn't tuck.

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 10:21 am
    No. 20 yieldtothemadness says:

    oh lisa. lisa, lisa, lisa. quite glad i wasn't drinking anything when i read that.

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 12:58 pm
    No. 21 Wickster says:

    Strapped Horns refer to any animal that has a gun mounted inside its horns.

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 1:15 pm
    No. 22 adeline.jane says:

    wait, why is that lisa person so angry? what did i miss?

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 3:17 pm
    No. 23 Lisa (#1) says:

    AJ, it was a joke, because Long Ass Lips called me Lisa (#2). Sometimes I forget you can't read the inflection I intended.I was starting a "feud," but LAL didn't bite.

    Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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