Drugs + Hip-Hop
Ben Westhoff, Katie Herzog, Drugs and Apple PieFrom Wuhan drug labs to West Coast gangsta rap
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Ben Westhoff is the author of Fentanyl, Inc., about new synthetic drugs, and Original Gangstas, about the birth of West Coast Hip-Hop. He writes the Substack newsletter Drugs + Hip-Hop.
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