That was actually my wife’s idea. It’s a remake of Dolly Parton’s song “Jolene,†but where Dolly Parton was saying, “Jolene, please don’t take my man,†we’re saying “codeine.†That’s something we were going through, me and my wife, my family. I was addicted to codeine, and it was stealing me away from them. To be honest, though, I don’t think we got clearance [for the song sample] in time, so we might have to save it for the next album.
Can you tell me a bit more about your experiences with codeine?
In the hip-hop community, it’s kind of cool to take codeine; it’s kind of like marijuana. When you smoke weed, people don’t look at it like you’re smoking drugs—they think it’s cool. But codeine is an actual narcotic; it’s like liquid heroin. It was a real hard thing for me to kick, especially because people didn’t treat it like it was a real drug. When you’re sipping on codeine, you get a little lazy, you get fat—but that’s something people accept in Texas, because we’re one of the most obese states in the country. All my friends are fat.
How did you manage to kick the habit?
My biological father was addicted to heroin, and he left me and my sister when I was about four or five years old. That was always my main fear: I don’t want to be him. I don’t want to turn into him
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Source: Ozone Mag
