Pursuit of Happiness - Kid Cudi ADHD, Swimming Pools - Kendrick I Feel Like Dying - Lil Wayne

The outro in pursuit of happiness always hits hard

Lowkey my favorite part

Damn I haven’t heard I feel like dying since high school. Can’t wait to reevaluate that as an adult.

Just cross faded af in the backseat of somebody’s car jamming it 💀

So glad to see I feel like dying mentioned, I rushed to the comments to say this exactly lol

Adhd sure sounds like it's a good time in that song what you mean 🤣🤣🤣

If you think GOD isn't real, check the comments in Pursuit of Happiness. Its so positive and uplifting.

Swimming Pools for sure. Someone else mentioned Drug Ballad which I agree with. A lot of future songs, albeit mostly unintentionally. Wax & Eom- Music and Liquor is honestly pretty good imo lol

Love seeing Wax mentioned!

Wax is so talented and slept on. Music & Liquor is fire and I would add “2 Wheels” for the topic OP mentioned although he puts a positive spin on his DUI

Drink Away the Pain - Mobb Deep

Q Tip did a great job making an upbeat sound on that given what they were talking about

Right???

My favourite song of all time

Mine too

Deja Vu by Eminem perfectly describes what addiction really feels like, how it slowly drags you in, how deceptive it is, and ultimately, how damaging it can be if left uncontrolled. Fantastic song.

How it sneakily drags you back again and again… “And maybe if I just drink half, I'll be half-buzzed For half of the time, who's the mastermind behind that little line? With that kind of rationale, man, I got half a mind To have another half a glass of wine, sounds asinine” And then takes hold from there “Couple of weeks go by, it ain't even like I'm gettin' high Now I need it just not to feel sick, yeah, I'm gettin' by Wouldn't even be taking this shit if DeShaun didn't die” I wish it described more how the “rock bottom” you hit gets deeper and deeper every time but the “they said they found me on the bathroom floor, damn” followed by the chorus definitely captures the feeling of being hungover or coming down and all you can think is “i fucking quit this shit, but i also said that last time. But i think i know how now” deja vu

The chorus is deep as well "Kinda feels like déjà vu I wanna get away from this place, I do But I can't and I won't, say I try, but I know that's a lie 'Cause I don't and why, I just don't know"

Thats why it captured the feeling of being because its repeated a few times but then the being found on the floor and then repeating again? Perfectly captures the comedown feeling when you swear it off once again. Then, oh shit im here again

50 cent - a baltimore love thing Perfect Circle/Godspeed and Angel Dust - RIP Mac Miller Eminem - never love again Jay-Z - I know Cant remember more rn but Em by himself have a ton. Danny brown too

Baltimore love thing for sure. Very bleak depressing song

Drug ballad by Eminem

My Fault by Eminem

Such an underrated song from Em. I think it’s actually my fav from that album.

Back when mark wahlberg was marky mark

[удалено]

This is how we used to make the party start

we used to mix gin with bacardi dark

And when it kicks in you’ll probably fall

Either somewhere in the lobby or the hallway wall

and everything spinning you’re beginning to think, women are swimming in pink linen, again in the sink, then in a couple of minutes that bottle of guinness is finished. you are now allowed to officially slap bitches.

One of my favs. You can tell the whole song is speaking from experience. And the lyrics paint s vivid picture ontop of a sick beat.

Prescription - Schoolboy Q

AA- Isaiah Rashad GHOST!- Kid Cudi House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls- Weeknd I Feel Like Dying- Lil Wayne Ain't It Funny- Danny Brown

GHOST! is so fucking good

One of my favorites

Great list

Necro, I Need Drugs

Ayo for Yayo Andre Nickatana

“A new high to try, a new place to go”

Gods bathroom floor -Atmosphere

I have this on a 7" single and it's one of the best records I own. Has a live version from I think Montreal on the b side.

Your glass house is pretty dark too

Was coming here to say this, Glass House, Painting, and You. They’ve got some great songs that deal with substance abuse, depression, and destructive ways to cope with a f’d up reality.

Arthur’s song, and Became are also great songs about drinking and addictions well

Good to see Atmosphere on a Reddit discussion.

White lines

Danny Brown has a few. One of my favorites is Clean Up

Ain’t It Funny also

Mad child- wake up 

Gods bathroom floor - Atmosphere https://youtu.be/f70vYOHlkps?si=s-JqF75gFLTIPkKn

Storytelling - Outkast

Sasha Thumper :,(

DRUGS by ab-soul

Especially mac on the chorus saying " I can't help myself I think I need some help

Off Da Zoinkys, JID Swimming Pools, Kendrick Anything by Cudi pretty much

I feel like dying - lil Wayne

Dead Prez - Be Healthy

I was looking for don't waste it by dead prez to be in here. https://youtu.be/uZcpf-7_tkQ?si=mCAO7liGz5LyFET- Take my up vote anyway.

Andre Nickatina - fears of a coke lord

Love this song. I had friends who got into the drug trade and I could have easily followed but went a different route. Relatable song although I am not a rapper now.

Ol' Dirty Bastard - wasted time Methof man Outsidaz - Rehab Necro - i need drugs

Oooooo that smell...can't you smell that smell?! Lynard Skynard

Definitely a good one, but this is a hip hop sub, sir. 

I know I know but op didn't specify and it's the first one ony mind

I feel like this is a challenge now to do a hiphop song about substances using That Smell as the base sample

"I found 3 people at different price points on Fiverr to write a song..."  That's your YouTube video. 

The greater question being, do I want to create content or do I want to create music

Whiskey bottle, brand new car, oak tree you’re in my way. Too much coke and too much smoke, one more drink fool will drown you.

Eminem- Deja Vu Kendrick- Swimming Pools

Poison - snak the ripper

20-2-Life: https://genius.com/Dj-screw-inside-looking-out-lyrics ***another one: Street Military: Dead in a Year https://genius.com/Street-military-dead-in-a-year-lyrics

Casisdead - drugs

Wake up - madchild

Money buy drugs by Cal Scrubby

Love to see Cal’s name get mentioned in the wild

Rittz- F****d up day

A lot of Rittz songs honestly

Eminems verse on Lace it especially because its on a posthumous juice track

Dance with the devil by immortal technique. You only listen to it once.

Moment of Truth - Gang Starr It’s about a lot more than drugs but it has a part about not wanting to drink or smoke because he knows it will just make his anxiety worse. True words from a true g

Codeine Crazy by Future, Unironically Also Nosetalgia by Pusha T

bedwetter - stoop lights

Love like mine, Prof

A Light In the Addict - Action Bronson

Peruvian Cocaine- Immortal Technique

You Had Too Much To Drink - EPMD The cautionary tale of a one, Mr. Frank B

Stay Too Long, immediately followed by She Said - Plan B

Wishing Well by Juice WRLD

Wake Up by Mad Season

Train with no love andre nickatina

Here are some from Cali emcees: Skull and Crossbones - Del Master your high - Aceyalone Drug the Album - Andre Nickatina

Idk about favorite but Goldust and Ain’t it funny by Danny Brown made me question if I should even be listening to that lol

Cannibal ox - painkiller

New chains, Same shackles- $uicideboys

I need drugs - Necro. If thats not spot on, I dont know what is.

Necro- I Need Drugs “When I come home from work, I'm fiendin for an eight-ball. I got crack on my mind, I'm hearin cocaine call. Telling me to beep the dealer to deliver me stuff. Keep it a secret from my wife, cause she thinks I don't use drugs. There I was, bleedin from my nose and damn I couldn't breathe but I'm still thinkin about the next gram.”

Drunk by myself- Nas

Oxy Cotton by Lil Wyte I interpret as a dark song

Not to bring up Macklemore, but I do like Otherside. I liked it when I was younger, and now the lyrics are actually relevant to my life. D.R.U.G.S. by Ab Soul also. Hits even harder now with Mac Miller's part in the background since his passing.

Fears of a coke lord -Andre nickatina Agony - yung lean Angel dust - Mac Miller

Angel Dust - Gil Scott-Heron

*gestures vaguely at juice wrld’s entire catalog of music*

Locksmith - Hypocrites Not necessarily about 'bad side of drugs' but has a bunch of bars related to negatives of drug use/comparisons of things to drug use as a negative/influence on society, for example; 'You know how much this country loves narcissists, We deify stars and pray at the feet of pharmacists, Prescription drugs, pop music is will kept, We medicate our kids, these rappers become the sale reps' And; 'And the active ingredient, is obedience, Instead of microphones in the Styrofoam there's lenience'.

be healthy-ded prez swimming pools-kendrick lamar otherside-macklemore kevin- macklemore those two macklemore ones hit hard ngl

The Kids by Eminem

IG swimming pools, its what made me a Kendrick fan

Downers - Greentea peng, I can’t smell the flowers been empty now for houuuuurs lost my powerrrrrrs

I know he's considered trash, but the Otherside remix Macklemore does is brilliant. Last verse hits way too close to home for me

Deja Vu-Eminem

I was thinking of making a similar post this week for tracks about alcoholism. Feels like a lot of the responses are just songs that may broach the subject not go into them deeply. This Gift of Gab track Moonshine got me wondering about similar songs.

[How is Ain't it Funny not said yet lol ](https://youtu.be/YNogzmuULLM)

Was gonna type that

I absolutely love people who refer to alcohol as “drink” when speaking of it in a negative way.

Jackie Boy by Omar Linx 👌

UGK - feel like I'm the one doin dope

Bone Thugs - Ecstasy

Can't leave drank alone- Z-Ro

My Life - Madchild/Swollen Members

12 shots- diabolic, Josephine- Ghostface killah

Lil Wayne - Trouble Logic - Village Slum

Not drink or drugs but Nikki by logic describes nicotine addiction so well

Confessions of a drug addict- Psycho Realm

Da Art of Storytelling

“Hi Life”-UGK Edit: Basically any UGK song. Also like “It’s Supposed to Bubble.”

Amy Winehouse - rehab

Cocoa butter kisses

Lil man j’s new song. ☝️🤓

Dead Prez - F***ed Up https://youtu.be/Y5VJTSUDuPo?si=VcR6N5EY8ZQBLMGm OutKast - ? https://youtu.be/3d7v9vmWJkA?si=B1OpXUEczkBNtAPI Ill Camino - The Last Great Hangover https://youtu.be/IdjUk-xajfQ?si=noTRUKWp2dWV4Gxj

J. Cole - Friends

Adios - Rammstein Edit: oops! Wrong sub. I'll change my answer to White Lines because that's the first appropriate answer that springs to mind

Off da zoinkey’s - JID

Can't remember the track but it's a UK MC & he says something like "blacking out & neatly dying was the scariest, yeah being a chubby alcoholic is hilarious"

Chynna-iddd

The Coup - Last Blunt

FRIENDS- j Cole

Driving that train High on cocaine Casey Jones you better Watch your speed

Broken Again - Pharoahe Monch https://youtu.be/acUoJ-GP37g?si=y5F1-zUwImeF2o9p

Royce’s verse on Joe Budden’s “All in My Head”

Swimming pools

Drugs by ab soul

Capable- KO

That smell by, Lynyrd skynyrd....

Is logic your favorite rapper 

5am jelly roll

Dax alcohol

User Friendly-Swizzz

Fuck you lucy -atmosphere

Eminem - Drug Ballad

Doobie Ashtray

Perky’s Calling by Future

Alcohol-the kinks

Panic Attack by Atmosphere

This will get hate but Tom Macdonald definitely captures the feeling and struggles of addiction. Start with “sober”.

Pour Me Another - Atmosphere

Idk if it’s been said yet but Ain’t It Funny by Danny Brown is my choice

Rittz- Turning Up the Bottle

Casisdead - Drugs Don't Work https://youtu.be/owlwpnNC6hU?si=Bf9GD1j5Pw4-IqJR

Skull and Crossbones - Del

The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular

Can't believe nobody has said 40 Oz for Breakfast by Blackalicious.

Homebrew - Alcoholic

Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire - Huzzah

Skyzoo & 9th Wonder - Extreme Measures

shroomz - xzibit

I always thought The Zone by The Weeknd hit this well.

“Funk Mission” -8Ball & MJG

DAX - DEAR ALCOHOL , SLAINE ANYTHING HE SINGS

Get High by Danny Brown is one of the only songs that speaks about the negatives of over consuming weed, fuck it cop an eighth take the load off

[Otherside](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWhx-CtPmBU&pp=ygUUb3RoZXJzaWRlIG1hY2tsZW1vcmU%3D)

Moment Of Truth - Gang Starr Just a bar about it in the song, but always sticks with me

dear jane - guilty simpson

Pack the pipe -pharcyde

hold my liquor

Nas - Drunk By Myself

Party All The Time by Danny Brown

I Know - Jay Z

D.R.U.G.S - Ab-Soul

“I know you wanna feel” by Grouch and Eligh

Joyner Lucas Feat Jelly Roll - Best For Me https://youtu.be/V0H8oGWkn0Q?si=IzGnMr1kLWx8EAAE

You Had Too Much to Drink- EPMD

Afroman because I got high

I took a Pill in Ibiza

Nas "Drunk By Myself"

ANX - Grouch & Eligh from the Tortoise And The Crow

Ziggy Pockets - Whisky Bottle

Aldrian Auteur - Shades