Lean (drug)
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Lean or purple drank is a polysubstance drink used as a recreational drug. It is prepared by mixing prescription-grade cough or cold syrup containing an opioid drug and an antihistamine drug with a so
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Ingredients for creating lean, including codeine-promethazine cough syrup, Jolly Rancher candies, and Sprite. Note the label on the bottled syrup, printed with instructions on how to prepare the lean. Some of the syrup has been decanted into a plastic container.
A spoonful of promethazine/codeine syrup showing the characteristic purple color
In 2019, rapper Future publicly spoke about quitting lean after learning about how his music influenced teenagers to try the drug.
Pimp C
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Chad Lamont Butler, better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for his work with Bun B as one half of the hip-hop duo Underground Kingz.
Lean (drug)
…14, 2007, after suffering a heart attack one week earlier that left him in a coma. There was speculation that lean may have contributed to his death. Pimp C, a widely influential rapper from Port Arthur, Texas, and member of the rap duo UGK, was found dead on December 4, 2007, at the Mondrian Hotel in West…
Pimp C in 2006