Study: Marijuana Appears in 37% of U.S. Hip-Hop Music Videos, Researchers Find
  • 477 points michaelbchnn24

    That seems low.

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    231 points LordeFan762

    The rest are smoking swishers and whoever did the study didnt know you put weed in them

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    55 points B0OG

    obligatory

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    3 points Ok-Afternoon-2113

    Classic

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    17 points MatureUsername69

    They use YouTube for watching the videos so I'm sure a lot of old videos are missing but I am interested on how far back they went historically for videos. I feel like older rap videos could be bringing that number down majorly. Im interested in comparing post-2012 to pre-2012 or really any year where the stigma around weed massively decreased but 2012 feels like a good point for that.

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    11 points -piz

    Article says it was based on the YouTube top 100 for 2024

    I wish they provided more data and went further back for stuff like you say

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    9 points hotcereal

    it highlights the problem with sensationalist headlines in reporting from studies. the study only looked at English and German speaking videos from YouTube’s top 100 videos of 2024 - an incredibly low and skewed sample size in relation to the headline being used in the linked article

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  • 124 points MonkMajor5224

    Swiping a credit card through a models ass resulting in it shaking only appears in 1 tho…

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    26 points PeaTear_Rabbit

    Why did I just watch that video yesterday

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    27 points MonkMajor5224

    Because its haute culture

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    9 points Murphy_Nelson

    If you are of a certain age as I am, this video man.......a formative moment for sure. I think we all had some hella grainy version downloaded off Kazaa or Morpheus.

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    10 points MonkMajor5224

    My friend had a very fancy phone for the time (2006) that could do video wallpapers and I convinced him to replace the video of his baby daughter with this clip.

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    6 points Comprehensive-Stay-9

    I NEED A TIPDRILL 🗣️ 

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    3 points MonkMajor5224

    After I made this joke, I couldn’t get the line “It must be the ass cause it ain’t your face” out of my head so I listened to it on the way to work this morning. It holds up better than I thought it would.

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  • 257 points yopladas

    Room for improvement

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    33 points Professor_Finn

    You gotta pump those numbers up

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  • 136 points Minute-Carrot-2405

    And there’s 100% chance I just smoked some too

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    30 points queezuswalks

    Congrats on the weed

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    4 points CUMT_

    Wake up

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    19 points FrigidMcThunderballs

    Grab a brush and put a little makeup

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    5 points msy113

    Smoke

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    1 points CUMT_

    pull up

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  • 37 points SBMVPJustinHerbert

    rookie numbers

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  • 20 points SheZowRaisedByWolves

    Impressive. Very nice. Now let’s see the styrofoam cup statistic

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  • 13 points SnackeyG1

    That’s really low.

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  • 12 points mozzato

    “I remember putting weed in my videos / They thought I was insane / Now every time I turn on the videos / I see the exact same thing”

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  • 5 points Underdog424

    Those are rookie numbers. We need to bump that way up.

    We need something to counter all this fenny music people are making these days.

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  • 13 points carebearterrence

    Creativity, it's a known fact that grass increases creativity From eight to eleven times In fact, everyone finds that they're more creative stoned, than straight So remember: M-A-R-I-J-U, A-J-U-A-N-A Mar-i-juana Mari-juana

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    3 points Sudden-Pineapple-793

    Love that maplestory pfp

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    1 points Additional-Cable5171

    Holy shit my Dad had the original vinyl that this was from. An entire weed-themed album with skits & songs.

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    2 points mistakemaker3000

    RIP MF DOOM

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  • 11 points FredVasseur

    Hell yeah

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  • 7 points PaleZebra288

    every single bobby shmurda video has it

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    23 points KeithBitchardz

    There’s more than one?

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    5 points babyface_killah

    I'm hungry so I'm gonna have a hot dinner

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    2 points KeithBitchardz

    What are you gonna eat?

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    2 points babyface_killah

    Nuke it in the microwave and I got dinner

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  • 8 points Previous-Leon-Cribs

    Gotta pump those numbers up.

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  • 9 points Nast33

    Lol, I could've thrown out a number if someone asked me and been pretty close to that. One of those 'research' bits that's totally unneeded - probably just the joke project of some data geek who's way into hip-hop and decided to count shots of weed while watching vids, then came up with the idea of writing a paper on it while high.

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  • 3 points thedinnerdate

    Hell yeah

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  • 13 points Then_Character_4050

    imagine wasting your time on a study like this lmao

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    39 points phono_trigger

    In all fairness The Marijuana Herald is a cannabis news site that focuses on marijuana laws, political developments, and the legal cannabis industry.

    The “study” is not much different from an article you would’ve found in High Times Magazine in 2002.

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    3 points -piz

    I think the misleading part is calling it a “study” to begin with, when they only used the YouTube top 100 for one year and don’t provide any actual data points or anything like that. Sounds like something you could do in a weekend, not an actual academic “study”, def more like a High Times article

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  • 3 points allbetsareon

    Weird that the study didn’t also look at alcohol as a comparison, but I guess they wanted to only focus on MJ and Nicotine

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  • 4 points FearlessTop1537

    and theres absolutely nothing wrong with giving visibility to a medication thats helps millions and helped billions .

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  • 1 points southside_TBM

    Jammin' 🌿

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  • 1 points glokash

    Should be 42%

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  • 1 points smh_122

    Kinda surprised of a number at all because I feel like every item in videos aren't easily identifiable

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  • 1 points HandspeedJones

    Do alcohol next.

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  • 1 points pineappledarling

    Could be higher

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  • 1 points chukstarmusic

    We need to get even higher!

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  • 1 points Comfortable_Care2715

    What your point?

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  • 1 points neverfrybaconnaked

    That's not high enough.

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  • 1 points Wulfho

    Let's go those numbers up

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  • 1 points SemiPracticalUse

    Let’s do beer and country music.

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  • 1 points frev_

    Better than a bunch of liquor bottles, pills, lean, etc a lil weed is always a safer bet.

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  • 1 points [deleted]

    Everyone saying that sounds low forgets about the Crunk era, lean got introduced to the mainstream rap landscape and shifted things, and SoundCloud rap was mostly about pills and drinking

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  • 1 points Demiathens

    you gotta find the one that do that Dr Dre Beats or Raycon product placements now

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  • 1 points mr_greedee

    Where can i get the grant to do stupid ass studies like that

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  • 1 points LeadershipCrazy2343

    cuz ppl wanna pop percs

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  • 1 points JohnABurgundy

    Study: marijuana appears in my hand 100% of the time post work while listening to hip-hop.

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  • 1 points liquid_at

    What's the percentage of alcohol in country?

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  • 1 points No-Telephone4299

    let's make it 73

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  • 1 points Artsky32

    The community needs to do better. I expect these numbers from a communist country, not the land of the free and the home of the brave

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  • 1 points WillOk6461

    I wonder if it’s gone done by now. Smoking blunts used to be way more subversive & edgy before it was legal. Half of senior citizens are stoners now.

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  • 1 points 877-HASH-NOW

    Only 37%?

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  • 1 points bentbackwooddathird

    We need a recount… it’s more like 73%

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  • 1 points Oz347

    Shocked_pikachu.gif

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  • 2 points TJMcConnellFanClub

    Wiz and Cudi deserve way more credit than they’re given for all of this

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    2 points Gardez_geekin

    You mean Cypress Hill

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  • 1 points Glum_Expression4599

    I would have thought that’d be higher tbh!

    Now do guns!

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    2 points OttoVonWong

    I would like to study the correlation between hip hop videos and big booties.

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  • 1 points dorianpora

    Ok

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  • 0 points jeffsaidjess

    63% is percs & molly or whatever junky drugs the kids idolise as being cool.

    O.ding on downers. Smh

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  • -1 points lilish4

    Wiz started it as a trend frfr

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  • 0 points JustCallMeBeast

    Cia priority objectives being achieved

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