Noisey: What was the motivation behind writing “You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack”?
Viper: I wrote “Cowards” when I had just got jumped into my gang 5-9 Piru. I was selling a little crack with my gang brothers and we had to always test the whip on a batch of work by taking a hit to make sure it was an A-1 batch before we closed out a batch before we closed out a batch or we’d sell out slow. I was still in college and making music at the time but I was slanging, too. I made the song just to tell people not to be judgmental in life especially when dealing with drugs or being judgmental to drug dealers. I’ve done every drug there is to do and even though I’m a successful real estate dealer I dabble in a few drugs every now and then with my gang brothers or friends just to show I’m still in touch with the streets and I don’t walk around with my nose up.
In a nutshell the motivation behind “You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack” was this: though drugs aren’t for everyone we shouldn’t be judgmental of those who do them ‘cause pointing the one finger at them points four back at us.