Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals

1

• Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals
• 8th Annual Louisiana Drug Court Conference
• New Orleans Marriott
• New Orleans, LouisianaFebruary 22, 2006

2
Using Popular Hip Hop Culture to Combat Substance
Abuse

• Hip Hop
• Hip, Hype, or Hypocrisy?
• Terrence D. Walton, MSW, CADC III, ICADC

3
ADVISORY

• Portions of this session include some graphic
  language, racial and sexual slurs, and other
  material that some participants will find
  offensive. The material is included in order to
  give the participants a true-to-life glimpse and
  better understanding of some of the more
  offensive aspects of the phenomena known as hip
  hop.

4
Hip Hop Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?

• List 4 Components of Hip Hop Culture.
• Experience Hip Hop Culture Understand Its
  Appeal
• Practice Using Hip Hop Culture to Educate
  Motivate
• Demonstrate Using Group Process to Decode
  Underlying Messages in Rap Music Lyrics

5
Hip Hop Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?

• Born on inner-city playgrounds, hip hop has
  grown over the last two decades into a
  multimillion dollar business. But it is not just
  an urban thing. Suburban kids can pick up the
  latest fashions by hip-hop designers like Phat
  Farm or FUBU at department stores like
  Bloomingdales, Dillards and Macys. And anyone
  can download the newest music off the Internet or
  buy CDs at chain music stores. ABCs Nightline

6
Hip Hop Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?

• The Hip Hop Generation A brief history
• Dee Jaying (cuttin and scratchin)
• Graffiti Art
• Break dancing / B- Boying
• Emceeing / Rapping

7
Hip Hop Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?

• The Hip Hop Generation A brief history
• Popular Hip Hop Culture
• Young and the Old, but mostly the young
• White and Black
• Urban, Suburban, and Rural
• Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?

8
The Industry

• Tupacs
• Reebocks
• Rocks
• Glocks

9
The Music Industry

• Death Row Records Suge Knight
• Murder Inc Irv Gotti
• Bad Boy P Diddy
• Def Jam Russell Simmons
• Shady Records Eminem

10
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
11
P.I.M.P.
12
Decoding the Messages

• Kanye West
• Crack Music
• Diamonds from Sierra Leone

13

• Developmental
• Tasks of The Young

14
8 Tasks of AdolescenceHavighurst (1972)

1. Accepting ones physique and using the body
   effectively
2. Achieving emotional independence from parents and
   other adults
3. Achieving a masculine or feminine social sex role
4. Achieving new and more mature relationships with
   peers of both sexes

15
8 Tasks of Adolescence

1. Desiring and achieving socially responsible
   behavior
2. Preparing for an economic career
3. Preparing for marriage and family life
4. Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system
   as a guide to behavior

16
9 Tasks of Young Adulthood

1. Achieving Autonomy
2. Molding an Identity
3. Developing Emotional Stability
4. Establishing a Career
5. Finding Intimacy
6. Becoming Part of Congenial Social Groups and
   Community
7. Selecting a Mate and Adjusting to Marriage
8. Establishing a Residence and Learning to Manage a
   Home
9. Becoming a Parent and Rearing Children

17
Exploring Values

• Values taught by parents grandparents
• Values taught by authority figures (teachers,
  ministers, policemen, judges, etc.)
• Values about money, wealth, and the American
  Dream
• Values about the opposite gender and
  relationships
• Values about personal conduct (sex, drug use,
  communication, treating each other, etc.)

18
HIP HOP VALUES
19
50 Cents The Massacre

• Im Supposed to Die Tonight
• Ski Mask Way
• Gunz Come Out
• Bitch, Get in My Car
• Shake that Ass, Girl
• Gatman and Robin
• Candy Shop
• Magic Stick

20
Ski Mask Way

• I get mine the fast way, the ski mask way. Make
  money, make money. Nigga, if you ask me, this
  the only way. Take money, take moneyMy black
  G-unit hoodie just reek with marijuana. Cocaine
  comin out my pores in the sauna, Im so serious
  man, Im so sincere. This flow right here is
  what fucked up Jeffreys career. Make money,
  take money, yea nigga, Yea.

21
The Curse

• Listen for messages regarding
• Drugs, gun violence, women, bravery, manhood,
  justice, revenge, law enforcement
• Independence and autonomy
• Whether or not drugs lower inhibitions
• Alcohol versus marijuana
• Cocaine, sex and power over women

22
High All The TimeProduced by Eminem
23

• I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need
  CrisTanqueray and Alize, I don't need shitNigga
  I'm high all the time, I smoke that good shitI
  stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
• Give me some dro, purple haze, and some
  chocolateGive me a dutch and a lighter I'll
  spark shitAnd stay high all the time, I smoke
  that good shitI'm high all the time, man I'm on
  some hood shit
• Every time I ROLL up, niggas holla ROLL up, and I
  tell'em HOLD up,You ain't gettin money you ain't
  smokingIn my Benzo, 20 inch Lorenzos, smoking on
  indoHigh as a motherfucker

24

• I be on them back streets, niggas know I clap
  heat, only if you got beefMan you better holla
  at meNiggas get locked up, stabbed up, shot
  upEverytime I pop up, a lot going on in my hood
• I shoot the dice, I holler get'em girlsDaddy
  need new shoesDaddy need Perelli's to look mean
  on 22sStash box, Xbox, laptop, fax machine,
  phoneBulletproof this bitch and I'm gone2003
  Suburban swerving, too many sips of HennyThe D's
  sick, they searched the whip and they can't find
  the semis

25

• They was just harassing me cause they know who I
  wasSpent the night in Central Booking for
  smoking some bud
• I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need
  CrisTanqueray and Alize, I don't need shitNigga
  I'm high all the time, I smoke that good shitI
  stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
• Give me some dro, purple haze, and some
  chocolateGive me a dutch and a lighter I'll
  spark shitAnd stay high all the time, I smoke
  that good shitI'm high all the time, man I'm on
  some hood shit

26

• Now if you heard I done started some shitIt
  ain't because I be high (I be high, I be
  high)And if you heard I done let off a clipIt
  ain't because I be high (I be high, I be
  high)But I- twist that la, la, la, la

27

• I get high as I wanna niggaGo against me, fa
  sho, you's a goner niggaI don't smoke to calm my
  nerves but I got beefFinna crush my enemies like
  I crush the hashishIf you love me, tell me you
  love me, don't stare at me manI'd hate to be in
  the Benz clapping one of my fansLet me show you
  how to greet me, when you meet me, when you see
  meIf you real my nigga, you know how to holla
  "G-Unit!
• There's no competition, it's just me,50 Cent,
  motherfucker, I'm hot on these streetsIf David
  could go against Goliath with a stoneI can go at
  Nas and Jigga, both for the throne

28

• I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need
  CrisTanqueray and Alize, I don't need shit Nigga
  I'm high all the time, I smoke that good shitI
  stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
• Give me some dro, purple haze, and some
  chocolateGive me a dutch and a lighter I'll
  spark shitAnd stay high all the time, I smoke
  that good shitI'm high all the time, man I'm on
  some hood shit
• Now who you know besides me who write lines and
  squeeze ninesAnd have hoes in the hood sniffin
  on white linesYou don't want me to be your kid's
  role modelI'll teach them how to buck them 380s
  and load up them hollows

29

• Have shorty fresh off the stoop, ready to
  shootBig blunt in his mouth, deuce deuce in his
  boot
• Sit in the crib, sippin Guinness, watching
  MenaceThen Oh Lord, have a young nigga bucking
  shit like he O-DogMy team they depend on me when
  it's crunch timeI eat a nigga food in broad day
  like it's lunchtimeYou feeling brave nigga, go
  ahead get gullySee if I won't leave your brains
  leaking up out your skully
• I done made myself hot, so ain't shit you can
  tell meNiggas calling me to feature, man fuck
  your money

30

• I ain't hurting, I'm doing goodI ain't got to
  write rhymes, I got bricks in the hood
• I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need
  CrisTanqueray and Alize, I don't need shit
• Nigga I'm high all the time, I smoke that good
  shitI stay high all the time, man I'm on some
  hood shit
• Give me some dro, purple haze, and some
  chocolateGive me a dutch and a lighter I'll
  spark shitAnd stay high all the time, I smoke
  that good shitI'm high all the time, man I'm on
  some hood shit G-Unit, are you readyG-Unit, are
  you readyG-Unit, are you readyNigga, ready or
  not, here I come, come, come

31
What did you hear?

• Drugs, gun violence, women, bravery, manhood,
  justice, revenge, law enforcement
• Independence and autonomy
• Whether or not drugs lower inhibitions
• Alcohol versus marijuana
• Cocaine, sex and power over women

32
Drugs that Appeal to the Young

• Accessible
• Socially Acceptable
• Socially Enhancing
• Facilitate Fun, Stimulation, or Escape Relatively
  Harmless

33
The Cure

• Understand the Culture
• Accept its Appeal
• Dont Attack the Culture or its Icons
• Utilize the Culture to Educate, Motivate,
  Reiterate
• Facilitate Clients Detection of Messages,
  Underlying Meanings, Values
• Raise Discrepancy
• Use Motivational Interviewing strategies to guide
  the client toward rejecting aberrant messages and
  values

34
Dead Prez (Sticman and M-1)

• Underground
• Alternative
• Conscious
• Rap

35
Fucked Up

• How do it feel to be high without drugs?
• Some say its the feelin of love for yourself.
• I cant call it. I just threw up in the toilet.
  And all my life I said I wasnt gonna be no
  alcoholic.
• Im fallin son, tryin to stay sober, but the
  alcohol be callin son like a ghost.
• So lets make a toast to my liver and kidneys.
  Pour out a little Henny. Heres to gout in your
  twenties. Not many niggaz make it to 30. We
  ride dirty.

36

• Breath stinkin, already drinkin, bright and
  early.
• I done earled out gin, Smirnoff, gin and 8 ball.
  
• Passed out on the bathroom floor with my clothes
  off. Remember them mickies? Tall can fit in
  your Dickies. Before they put them cameras up in
  the corner store.
• We used to be so much fun when we was young.
  Trying to holler at somethin smellin like 151.
  Getting thrown out of the club all buzzed. Im
  about to go get the gun, dawg. But I aint even
  know where I was. My nigga Emae had to carry me
  home a many day. It was Heineken, Bets, Andre
  and E J.

37

• They say alcoholism is in my DNA cause pops like
  to get fucked up the same way. They say
  alcoholism is in my DNA cause pops like to get
  fucked up the same way.

38

• I got so fucked up last night I passed out.
  Assed out. Man, I couldnt even get to the house
  and I know I shouldnt been drinkin on an empty
  stomach, but the flier said open bar and I said
  fuck it.
• Went from vodka to rum, from rum to cognac and
  my body feel like Ive been fightin in combat.
  And Ive been coughin up yellow shit, breakin a
  sweat. Ive been shaking like a leaf , but thats
  just what I get for pourin my own poison and
  throwin it back. And its not enough to just
  know better, you gotta act. I know I said that
  the last time, but I was havin such a good time.

39

• The liquor just took over my mind. And I dont
  want to be a Gills guy, hear me ya. Cause when
  you livin in a bottle then a nigga stop caring.
• Cause the ones who made that alcohol aint my
  friend. But the sad part is Im a probably do it
  again. God damn!
• (I use to have a thing for Cognac. Nowadays I
  train for combat.)

40

• What did you hear?

41
Kanye West on Three Kinds of Addiction
Afflicting the Young

• Street
• Sex
• Substance

42
50 Cent on Addiction and Relapse A Baltimore
Love Thing
43
Learning Opportunities

1. Withdrawal symptoms
2. Loss of choiceunsuccessful attempts to stay
   cleanrelapse
3. Love relationship with the chemical
4. Babies born addicted
5. Use of multiple substances
6. Family addiction
7. Chasing the first high
8. Celebrity addiction

44
Learning Opportunities

1. Medicating feelings
2. Stealing from family to support habit
3. Continued use in spite of consequences
4. Drugs as a substitute for friends fostering
   distrust and isolation
5. Feeling destined for addiction
6. Addiction is fatal

45

• The Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive
• www.ohhla.com

46
Substance Abuse and Hip Hop

• Hip, Hype, or Hypocrisy?
• Terrencewalton_at_aol.com