Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals
8th Annual Louisiana
Drug Court Conference
New Orleans Marriott
New Orleans, Louisiana
February 22, 2006
Using Popular Hip Hop Culture to
Combat Substance Abuse
Hip Hop:
Hip, Hype, or
Hypocrisy?
Terrence D. Walton,
MSW, CADC III, ICADC
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”.
Hip Hop: Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?
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2.
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4.
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
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 Bloomingdale’s,
Dillards and Macy’s. And anyone can download
the newest music off the Internet or buy CDs at
chain music stores.” ABC’s Nightline
Hip Hop: Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?
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The Hip Hop Generation: A brief history
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Dee Jaying (cuttin’ and scratchin’)
Graffiti Art
Break dancing / B- Boying
Emceeing / Rapping
Hip Hop: Hip, Hype or Hypocrisy?
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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?
The Industry
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Tupacs
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Reebocks
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Rocks
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Glocks
The Music Industry
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Death Row Records – Suge Knight
Murder Inc – Irv Gotti
Bad Boy – P Diddy
Def Jam – Russell Simmons
Shady Records – Eminem
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
P.I.M.P.
Decoding the Messages
Kanye West
“Crack Music”
“Diamonds from Sierra Leone”
Developmental
Tasks of The Young
8 Tasks of Adolescence
Havighurst (1972)
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2.
3.
4.
Accepting one’s physique and using the
body effectively
Achieving emotional independence from
parents and other adults
Achieving a masculine or feminine social
sex role
Achieving new and more mature
relationships with peers of both sexes
8 Tasks of Adolescence
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Desiring and achieving socially
responsible behavior
Preparing for an economic career
Preparing for marriage and family life
Acquiring a set of values and an ethical
system as a guide to behavior
9 Tasks of Young Adulthood
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Achieving Autonomy
Molding an Identity
Developing Emotional Stability
Establishing a Career
Finding Intimacy
Becoming Part of Congenial Social Groups and
Community
Selecting a Mate and Adjusting to Marriage
Establishing a Residence and Learning to Manage a
Home
Becoming a Parent and Rearing Children
Exploring Values
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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.)
HIP HOP VALUES
50 Cents: The Massacre
I’m 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
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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 money…My black G-unit
hoodie just reek with marijuana.
Cocaine comin out my pores in the
sauna, I’m so serious man, I’m so
sincere. This flow right here is what
fucked up Jeffrey’s career. Make
money, take money, yea nigga, Yea.
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
“High All The Time”
Produced by Eminem
I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need Cris
Tanqueray and Alize, I don't need shit
Nigga I'm high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
Give me some dro, purple haze, and some chocolate
Give me a dutch and a lighter I'll spark shit
And stay high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I'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 smoking
In my Benzo, 20 inch Lorenzos, smoking on indo
High as a motherfucker
I be on them back streets, niggas know I clap heat,
only if you got beef
Man you better holla at me
Niggas get locked up, stabbed up, shot up
Everytime I pop up, a lot going on in my hood
I shoot the dice, I holler get'em girls
Daddy need new shoes
Daddy need Perelli's to look mean on 22s
Stash box, Xbox, laptop, fax machine, phone
Bulletproof this bitch and I'm gone
2003 Suburban swerving, too many sips of Henny
The D's sick, they searched the whip and they
can't find the semis
They was just harassing me cause they know who I
was
Spent the night in Central Booking for smoking
some bud
I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need Cris
Tanqueray and Alize, I don't need shit
Nigga I'm high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
Give me some dro, purple haze, and some chocolate
Give me a dutch and a lighter I'll spark shit
And stay high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I'm high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
Now if you heard I done started some shit
It ain't because I be high (I be high, I be
high)
And if you heard I done let off a clip
It ain't because I be high (I be high, I be
high)
But I- twist that la, la, la, la
I get high as I wanna nigga
Go against me, fa sho, you's a goner nigga
I don't smoke to calm my nerves but I got beef
Finna crush my enemies like I crush the hashish
If you love me, tell me you love me, don't stare at
me man
I'd hate to be in the Benz clapping one of my fans
Let me show you how to greet me, when you meet
me, when you see me
If you real my nigga, you know how to holla "GUnit!“
There's no competition, it's just me,
50 Cent, motherfucker, I'm hot on these streets
If David could go against Goliath with a stone
I can go at Nas and Jigga, both for the throne
I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need Cris
Tanqueray and Alize, I don't need shit Nigga I'm
high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
Give me some dro, purple haze, and some chocolate
Give me a dutch and a lighter I'll spark shit
And stay high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I'm high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
Now who you know besides me who write lines and
squeeze nines
And have hoes in the hood sniffin on white lines
You don't want me to be your kid's role model
I'll teach them how to buck them 380s and load up
them hollows
Have shorty fresh off the stoop, ready to shoot
Big blunt in his mouth, deuce deuce in his boot
Sit in the crib, sippin Guinness, watching Menace
Then Oh Lord, have a young nigga bucking shit
like he O-Dog
My team they depend on me when it's crunch time
I eat a nigga food in broad day like it's lunchtime
You feeling brave nigga, go ahead get gully
See if I won't leave your brains leaking up out
your skully
I done made myself hot, so ain't shit you can tell me
Niggas calling me to feature, man fuck your
money
I ain't hurting, I'm doing good
I ain't got to write rhymes, I got bricks in the hood
I don't need Dom Perignon, I don't need Cris
Tanqueray and Alize, I don't need shit
Nigga I'm high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I stay high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
Give me some dro, purple haze, and some chocolate
Give me a dutch and a lighter I'll spark shit
And stay high all the time, I smoke that good shit
I'm high all the time, man I'm on some hood shit
G-Unit, are you ready
G-Unit, are you ready
G-Unit, are you ready
Nigga, ready or not, here I come, come, come
What did you hear?
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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
Drugs that Appeal to the
Young
Accessible
Socially Acceptable
Socially Enhancing
Facilitate Fun, Stimulation, or Escape
Relatively Harmless
The Cure
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7.
Understand the Culture
Accept its Appeal
Don’t 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
Dead Prez (Sticman and M-1)
Underground
Alternative
Conscious
Rap
Fucked Up
How do it feel to be high without drugs?
Some say it’s the feelin’ of love for yourself.
I can’t call it. I just threw up in the toilet. And all
my life I said I wasn’t gonna be no alcoholic.
I’m fallin’ son, tryin’ to stay sober, but the
alcohol be callin’ son like a ghost.
So let’s make a toast to my liver and kidneys.
Pour out a little Henny. Here’s to gout in your
twenties. Not many niggaz make it to 30. We
ride dirty.
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. I’m 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.
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.
I got so fucked up last night I passed out.
Assed out. Man, I couldn’t even get to the
house and I know I shouldn’t 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 I’ve been fightin’ in
combat. And I’ve been coughin’ up yellow
shit, breakin’ a sweat. I’ve been shaking like a
leaf , but that’s 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.
The liquor just took over my mind. And I don’t
want to be a Gill’s 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 I’m a probably do it
again. God damn!
(I use to have a thing for Cognac. Nowadays I
train for combat.)
What did you hear?
Kanye West on Three Kinds of
“Addiction” Afflicting the Young
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2.
3.
Street
Sex
Substance
50 Cent on Addiction and
Relapse:
“A Baltimore Love Thing”
Learning Opportunities
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2)
3)
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8)
Withdrawal symptoms
Loss of choice—unsuccessful attempts to
stay clean—relapse
Love relationship with the chemical
Babies born addicted
Use of multiple substances
Family addiction
Chasing the first high
Celebrity addiction
Learning Opportunities
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10)
11)
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14)
Medicating feelings
Stealing from family to support habit
Continued use in spite of consequences
Drugs as a substitute for friends; fostering
distrust and isolation
Feeling destined for addiction
Addiction is fatal
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Substance Abuse and
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Hip, Hype, or Hypocrisy?
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