Lil Wayne seizure puts spotlight on rappers' use of 'sizzurp'

Often mixed with fruit soda and sipped from oversized cups, the fortified cough syrup is highly addictive — and technically legal.The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down beats and vocals to replicate the drug's sleepwalker euphoria.

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