Speaking about making bad decisions in life after rising to stardom, the 'Eenie Meenie' hitmaker admits that it was when he was 'going through a depressed moment a little bit...'
- Jun 1, 2021
AceShowbiz - Back in 2007, Sean Kingston rose from a talented Myspace artist to a global superstar through his single "Beautiful Girls". Like many celebrities who had instant success, the singer/rapper struggled to adjust to fame and made bad decisions somewhere along the way, one of which was when he started drinking lean with Justin Bieber.
Speaking with Adam22 for his "No Jumper" podcast, the Jamaican-American artist revealed that it was Justin who first introduced him to the purple drank, which is a recreational drug beverage, prepared by combining prescription-grade cough syrup with a soft drink and hard candy. "I started, you know, not drinking lean but like basically, yeah drinking lean," he recalled.
"You feel me, just getting in the wrong stuff and wrong crowd and kind of lost my way a little bit, thank God I didn't go too deep into it," he admitted, adding, "But it was kind of like a situation where I was going through a depressed moment a little bit..."
When asked by Adam22 if Justin got him into lean or the other way around, Sean, whose real name is Kisean Paul Anderson, replied, "Um, shoot, I think he got me into it I don't even know how he got into it." He went on recalling what it was like getting high on lean with the "Baby" hitmaker, "It was legendary. That was legendary. But I was like damn, Bieber, you messed up after this."
Adam22 then asked Sean, "You're on board with that theory that he's the one that got it banned?" referring to the Actavis brand of codeine cough syrup being discontinued in 2014 after being name-dropped by multiple rap artists. Agreeing with it, the "Eenie Meenie" singer nodded his head before they continued the discussion by talking about the ballooned prices of Actavis after the ban.
