Hunter Biden has just put a match under the national conversation about addiction and drugs and public relations, with crack cocaine at the center of it. In an interview with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5, sitting down for what an aide to Hunter called a therapy session "that sometimes passes for an interview," Hunter spoke candidly, raw, even about his years of substance abuse, his father's pulling out of the 2024 presidential race, and his legal problems. But the moment that broke the internet? A striking claim about crack.
"Is there something to be said about crack cocaine that makes you behave in any different way? No. Is it safer than alcohol? I guess," Biden said, the kind of unvarnished candor that sounds less as if it belongs in a political interview and more like something you'd share in the middle of the night as a secret.
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Hunter explored the physical and social costs of both substances, describing alcohol as "the most destructive substance" he'd ever encountered. "You can go to your local store around the corner," he said, juxtaposing that relative safety with the danger-ridden environments he was forced to negotiate to hunt crack.
Then, it delivered the high school chemistry lesson no one expected. "Crack was dirty," Biden said. "It's the other way around … you're incinerating all of the impurities so it reacts with sodium bicarb, and it forms something smokable."
Enter Pusha T, hip-hop's longtime drug rap kingpin and one-half of the duo Clipse. After decades of rhymes rooted in the very product Biden was trying to justify, Push replied in the most Push manner possible: one word. One syllable. It was posted to X (formerly Twitter) and only said: "Deep."
Fans and followers quickly caught the reference, noting the irony. Here was the son of the President of the United States saying what's been coded into Clipse songs for 20 years. One user cracked, "You probably waited on him back in the day & never knew." Another wrote, "I ain't know hunter was on the clipse album rollout… Respect bringin this grimey ass crack connoisseur."
Admiration, sarcasm, and just plain disbelief abounded on the internet. But Pusha's spare rejoinder was a clinic in allowing the moment to breathe. For a maestro of drug tales turned Grammy-nominated auteur, "deep" was plenty.
As for Biden: The episode not only underscored his politically risky candor but also how suddenly our public discourse can turn in the age of politics, celebrity, and culture.
But whether you found his comments enlightening or reckless, this conversation isn't going to die down anytime soon. And in an era of viral soundbites and cultural crossfire, sometimes a one-word reaction can say more than a thousand interviews ever can.
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