Lil Wayne Dies from Syrup, It’s Not True…But It Could Be

Note: As of the writing of this article, nothing has happened to Lil Wayne, this post is more to discuss the potential consequences of the current lifestyle he chooses to lead.

First off I want to say I am a huge Weezy fan. Secondly, I know that Wayne isn’t the only rapper out there that is addicted to syrup, but he is the most well known. I battled with myself for a while as to whether or not I should post the recipe for “syrup”, but the fact that I simply did a quick Google search of “rapper syrup recipe” and found it, I decided if someone wants to find the recipe they could. The recipe for syrup is different depending on where you are but the basics are:

Promethazine w/Codeine syrup
Any fruit flavored soda
A jolly rancher

For the record I don’t condone this stuff, and it WILL kill you.

For the life of me I can not see why the people around him aren’t doing more to help him get off this stuff. I mean smoking a lot of weed is bad and it has side effects but I don’t know when the last time I heard of someone dying from smoking too much weed. While I don’t condone any kind of drug use, I would rather he be smoking too much than drinking this stuff. I mean Weezy says that he is the “greatest rapper alive” and save for the part of me that loves T.I. I tend to agree with him, the question is how long will he be alive if he continues to abuse this stuff. I mean once you are on it they say it is hard to get off but I mean it killed DJ Screw and Pimp C and both of those were tragedies. I don’t want to see the same thing happen to Lil Wayne.

Think about this Lil Wayne is 25, around the same age that B.I.G. and Pac were when they passed. Pac and B.I.G. were both lost to violence and Weezy’s condition is self induced but in the end its all senseless. I mean if he stays focused Lil Wayne could go down as the greatest rapper to ever live and that is big praise from a die hard Tupac fan. In the end as a young black man around the same age as Wayne is now and Pac and B.I.G. were at the time, I am just tired of seeing other young black men die for no reason.

Now he is a grown man and he will make his own decisions but somebody has got to talk to him. I don’t understand why Bryan “Baby” Williams isn’t doing more to get Wayne help. I mean let’s be honest the only reason that Cash Money is still even relevant is because of Weezy and if something happened to him they would be done. Baby is a lot of things but first and foremost he is a hustler and a businessman and letting your star attraction destroy himself is just bad business. I mean I can’t even begin to fathom the kind of pressure that it takes to be him, to live up to it all but he doesn’t need syrup to do it.

With lines like, “They say you ain’t great/till someone assassinate/and they got me feeling like MLK”, I doubt he is afraid of dying but I don’t think he knows how much he may be speeding it up. They say that there is a fine line between genius and insanity and that has never been more apparent than in the lives of our music stars. From Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain to Tupac to Kanye to Weezy, all brilliant minds but the same brilliance that makes them great is the same thing that pushes them to live so close to the edge.

While unfortunately it is already to late for DJ Screw and Pimp C, its NOT to late for Wayne. I just really don’t want to wake up one morning and that headline has become true because it is easily preventable. I am sure people have told him this and maybe he hasn’t listened but maybe he will listen to his fans, so if you feel the same way I do then join me in asking Weezy to put the syrup down cause he doesn’t need it. In my opinion, its much better to be a living legend, than a dead one. Get my drift. I know you don’t want people judging you and I ain’t but we need you around folk.

P.S. As I send this out into the blogosphere it is with a prayer of hope that something or someone touches his heart and gets him off this stuff. If nothing else, you got a daughter that is just starting to become a young women and she is going to look to you to define what a man is in her eyes, and her life story is the greatest verse you will ever spit.  I know that Weezy will never see this but I just want to say to him from one young black man to another, you are stronger than any drug and you don’t need that stuff to be great cause you already was. Just cause you wanna live like a rockstar….doesn’t mean you have to die like one too. May God watch over you.

Lil Wayne talks about his syrup addiction in his own words:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1582520/20080228/lil_wayne.jhtml

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