Juelz Santana recently revealed that he struggled with an addiction and spoke openly about his battle to overcome it.
During his Drink Champs interview with presenters N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, the Dipset rapper and Love and Hip Hop: New York star acknowledged to drinking daily and said he doesn’t blame fellow emcee Paul Wall for exposing him to the drug.
“I was drinking lean, and did I have an addiction to lean? For sure,” Santana said on the podcast. “I was addicted to the point to where I was drinking it every day, and if I stopped drinking it, yeah, I would’ve got sick ’cause that’s what happens with the opiates and s**t, withdrawals and stuff.”
Wall, “kind of introduced me to it a little bit, just on some ‘Taste it,’ you know what I mean,”Juelz stated, adding that he is solely accountable for his own choices.
Juelz stated, “I’m a grown-ass man; I do what I want”. “Paul Wall did not drug — Nah, no way. I’m not gon’ do that to that man.” He accepted full responsibility and stated that his company did little to help with the problem. “But yeah, he put me on, and you know, me and [Lil] Wayne being close and recording that album at the time didn’t help, of course,” he said. “We were just fully not feeling our face all around the board.”
