here's a snippett of an interview that was givin him not too long ago, this is about rec drugs, obviously, but might nonetheless change your opinion about him
CK: So you were never addicted to any kind of drug?
50: No. I stayed away from it, because I'd been hustling since I was 12. As soon as I was introduced to drugs, I immediately started selling them. But I was addicted to the lifestyle and what came with that.
CK: I assume when you say "drugs", you don't mean pot. Because you smoke pot, right?
50: Never.
CK: You've never smoked marijuana? That seems difficult to believe.
50: They all smoke it around me. Everybody I know always smoked pot, but I never had an urge to try. I was always surrounded by people with drug addictions [50's mother was a crack dealer who was murdered when he was eight years old]. I was in a household where everyone was drunk and crazy, no clothes on in the bed, that sort of thing. As a little kid, you walk into a room like that and you think it's crazy.
CK: But the character in your first-person songs seems to be smoking pot constantly.
50: When I rap lines like," I smoke that good shit," that's just me using my head. That's me knowing that there are 500,000 people out there who just want to play my records and get high. I watched Method Man base his career on that. I watched Redman base his career on that. I watched Afroman sell music based on getting high, and I watched Dre make a record called The Chronic.
CK: But isn't the epitome of exploitation? You're basically glamorizing something that you would never do yourself in order to sell records.
50: You know what? I've been high off of weed so many times from contact highs, just from the people around me. If you were to ask me if I ever buy a blunt and smoke it up, then no, I don't. But if you ask if everyone around me smokes it all the time while I'm around, then yes. I just don't want to spend money on it. And when you talk about the concept of exploitation- you ever notice how many artists endorse alcoholic beverages? I had the option to do all of those things. But because I don't drink, I choose to endorse VitaminWater. That is a better reflection of my lifestyle. You have to differentiate between what seems real, and what's really a reflection of the environment that someone comes from. It's like when a newspaper writes a story about someone who wants to kill me. I'm always like, "Tell me something I don't know."
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