Man, everybody in the celebrity party circle does coke. Seriously. Coke is more acceptable than weed, and lasts a hell of a lot less longer high wise and doesnt leave you dopey. That whole scene does coke.
And a LOT of performers do coke before going on stage, it gives them more energy and more hype in their performance. What are you going to do? Drink 20 cans of Red Bull or snort a line of coke? On tours like that man, the schedule is fucked, and energy is hard to keep, sometimes you just need a boost.
And LOL at my dude in the Bum Squad t-shirt, shout outs to the Squad!
Truth. And not even just performers.....businessmen too.
It's crazy cos I have a fierce stage reputation for being a crazy motherfucker, I jump around, climb on speakers, stage dive, slide across the stage...climb up the support stands on the front corners of stages at festivals lol........I don't think I've ever done a gig where I havent ended up with a few cuts and bruises afterwards. People always say afterwards "wow you are so full of energy"......i must have heard that line a million times by now.
So naturally, some people assume I do coke. Some even try to buy it off me backstage. And I don't even do coke. In fact, I did a tiny ass line once when I was 15 and haven't done it since. It's just not my thing. But in this scene I'm very much a minority. The attitude that it brings to people just pisses us off. We stopped working with one guy because he was on coke all the time and was an asshole. I can't say I haven't been tempted on tours, though. Like Ruk said, the schedule can be gruelling. We always try to arrange our tours so that there's a free day in between shows. That way you have plenty of time to chill. There's been a couple of times where we've actually had to do 2 shows in one night though and that is just a killer. (one show on stage from 10pm-11pm, drive for 2 hours to another city to be on stage there from 1am-2am). The last time we did that I was sore for a week.
But anyway, back to the topic, this is a complete non-event, really. 50 does coke? Big motherfucking deal. I saw Eminem live once on the Anger Management tour, and I was right in the front row. Him and Proof were coked out of their fucking minds. You could see it in their eyes.