"Ok a lil drastic...but still..."
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| Leland 'Metro Boomin' Wayne |
The flute-inspired beat was sampled from Tommy Butler's 1976 song, 'Prison Song' which was featured on the 'Selma' album which details the fight led by Martin Luther King for women to have equal voting rights in 1965.
Tommy Butler's song speaks about the suffering black people went through, being locked up and not being able to escape their captors, but yet still having to show graciousness to the people that were abusing them whilst they were incarcerated.
Future's version speaks about the effects you get from taking regular hits of Ecstasy and Painkillers and no longer feeling the necessity to hide your drug taking.
Future took a song which has such a historical meaning to his race and made it about the social activities that are happening in his community.
I'm not going to pretend that I don't like this song. No, at this moment this song is top 3 in my 'Car Playlist'.
I'm cool with a Spliff, I'm all up for a Blunt, but all this talk about Molly and Codeine is something that doesn't sit well with me.
"I have no time for those social habits. There are safer ways to get high."
I get people use it to party or even get the motivation they need to make a hit but it shouldn't be something that gets sensationalised.
It isn't healthy and maybe if the people doing this kept their mask on and stayed doing it behind closed doors, it wouldn't be something that people took as a positive thing. It no longer has the same stigma it had when it rappers first started talking about it. The UK is very different. Lean and Codeine don't really interest us and any songs you hear from a UK artist about it is all lies.
It's all good enjoying a song but just remember this isn't, "Simon Says."
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