Video After The JumpHouston rapper Trae The Truth is one of the realest in the game right now. Even though local radio station 97.9 The Box tried to blackball him out of the industry by refusing to play his music, Trae has continued to keep the streets buzzing.
His new album, 'You Can't Ban The Truth' hit stores September 28.
Trae sits down with VladTV to talk about a very important subject that is affecting the youth all across the country, and has cost legends like DJ Screw and Pimp C their lives. And that is the use of syrup to get high.
Rappers like Lil Wayne, Beanie Sigel, Juelz Santana, Three Six Mafia, and Lil Flip and many more have admitted to sipping that lean. Is it time to put that to bed?
"I think at the end of the day drugs is drugs," Trae says. "I think it kinda blew up more throughout the media, because each hood and each city have their choice of drugs. Sometimes people like to be on X [ecstacy] a lot, it's a lot of people who die from X. Sometimes people like to be on powder [cocaine], it's a lot of people that die from powder. Some places got heroin, some places got fry, if you don't know what fry is that's water like Formaldehyde/embalming fluid. Any drugs can harm you, it's not guaranteed to make you pass away, but it can harm you. I don't want to enhance what the media did, and make it seem like that's [syrup] what's killing Houston right now."
Vlad asks if the artists should be more responsible and speak out against the use of syrup.
"Each person gotta be held accountable for their own actions. A lot of people blame the music, but then at the same time we got movies where people doing the same sh*t and nobody pinpoints it to that. Everything any of us do in the entertainment business is an influence, but I'm not going to all the weight on {just] that," Trae said.
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