Trippie Redd Vows to Quit Drugs Following Juice WRLD’s Death
Written by SOURCE on December 10, 2019
Trippie Redd has sworn off drugs, following the tragic death of his friend Juice WRLD.
Trippie made the announcement on his Instagram Live on Monday: “We ain’t doin’ it no more,” he said. “Period. If it ain’t weed, we ain’t doin’ it no more.” He paused, then added, “And when I say ‘we,’ I mean us as a group. Us as a whole, the whole emo music artists. No drugs.”
“It’s not cool,” he said during the IG Live, per HotNewHipHop. “We look up to all these bigger artists, all these grown-ass men and all they do is talk about poppin’ pills and sippin’ codeine and all that shit… It’s music. N***as know what they get theyself into but at the same time, it’s like, we gotta be the strongest people to be like, ‘Okay, n***as is just using this for rhymes at this point.’ Let it just be that, you feel me? I’ll be the first to say: I ain’t sippin’ no lean, I ain’t poppin’ no pills but Imma still talk about it in music. Maybe.”
The rappers were collaborators; Juice featured on Trippie’s songs “1400 / 999 Freestyle” and “6 Kiss.”
Lil Mosey has also declared his sobriety. On Monday, the 17-year-old rapper took to Twitter, writing, “I asked God to help me. Drugs won’t take me I promise & Im done with them. I love y’all, pray for me.”
Juice WRLD passed away on Sunday after suffering from a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport. TMZ later reported that the late rapper allegedly swallowed multiple Percocet pills during a police search of his private jet prior to his death, which could have contributed to his possible overdose.
