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Kodak Black admits to chewing '100 Percocets a day' and regrets glorifying drug use

"I was chewing 100 Percs a day, man. Average like 40," Kodak Black reveals during LA show.

Pop Culture & Art June 30, 2024

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Kodak Black recently shed light on the severity of his addiction to Percocet and expressed regret for glorifying the drug in his hit song "Super Gremlin."

During a performance in Los Angeles on Thursday, the rapper took a moment to share his personal struggle with addiction and offer advice to his fans.

"It's sad though, bruh, because it's like that shit—the bar came to mind so quick. I'm like, 'Damn, I don't wanna say this shit, but I know this bitch gon' go in.' But we ain't gon' play like that, bruh," Kodak Black revealed, reflecting on the lyrics he wrote while addicted to Percocet.

"When I was at my stage, chewing on them Percs, I ain't gonna say I popped them bitches."

He continued, "But when I was at my stage, I was chewing like – bruh, I swear to God and my n***as will vouch – I was chewing 100 Percs a day, man. Average like 40. Average! If I was fucking with them fake shits, bruh, I'd have been dead. Bruh, I say that, I'm explaining myself now. I don't want y'all to hear that and take that and feel like it's okay to do that shit, ya feel me?"

Kodak Black's candid admission highlights the dangerous reality of addiction among rappers, a topic that has been discussed by other artists as well.

In 2022, Eminem detailed his own struggles with drug addiction in an essay for XXL, describing how his dependency on Vicodin, Valium, and alcohol intensified following the murder of his friend and D-12 member Proof.

"I just kept taking more pills. I literally couldn't walk for two days when that happened and eventually my drug use f—in' skyrocketed," Eminem wrote. "I had f—in' 10 drug dealers at one time that I'm getting my s— from. Seventy-five to 80 Valiums a night, which is a lot. I don't know how the f—I'm still here. I was numbing myself."

COMMENTS (2)

Frank Sterle Jr. | 4 months ago | Reply

Rightfully the stigmatization of drug addiction and even addicts themselves is gradually diminishing. Nevertheless many chronically addicted people won t miss this world if they never wake up. It s not that they necessarily want to die it s that they want their pointless corporeal suffering to end. . Also typically societally overlooked is that intense addiction usually doesn t originate from a bout of boredom where a person consumed recreationally but became heavily hooked on a self medicating substance that eventually destroyed their life and even those of loved-ones. More accurately the greater the drug-induced euphoria or escape one attains from its use the more one wants to repeat the experience and the more intolerable one finds their sober reality the more pleasurable that escape will likely be perceived. In other words the greater one s mental pain or trauma while sober the greater the need for escape from reality thus the more addictive the euphoric escape-form will likely be. Especially when the substance abuse is due to past formidable mental trauma the lasting solitarily-suffered turmoil can readily make each day an ordeal unless the mind is medicated. Not surprising many chronically addicted people won t miss this world if they never wake up. It s not that they necessarily want to die it s that they want their pointless corporeal suffering to end.

Frank Sterle Jr. | 4 months ago | Reply Intense addiction usually doesn t originate from a bout of boredom where a person consumed recreationally but became heavily hooked on a self medicating substance that eventually destroyed their life and even those of loved-ones. More accurately the greater the drug-induced euphoria or escape one attains from its use the more one wants to repeat the experience and the more intolerable one finds their sober reality the more pleasurable that escape will likely be perceived. In other words the greater one s mental pain or trauma while sober the greater the need for escape from reality thus the more addictive the euphoric escape-form will likely be. Especially when the substance abuse is due to past formidable mental trauma the lasting solitarily-suffered turmoil can readily make each day an ordeal unless the mind is medicated. It should be needless to say that neglecting and therefor failing people struggling with debilitating addiction should not be an acceptable or preferable political economic or religious morality option. But the more callous politics that are typically involved with lacking addiction funding services tend to reflect conservative electorate opposition however irrational against making proper treatment available to low- and no-income addicts. Albeit with sympathy I also used to look down on those who had allowed themselves to become addicted. Yet I myself have suffered enough unrelenting PTSD symptoms to have known enjoyed and appreciated the great release upon consuming alcohol or THC.

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