I'm feeling all the Houston love. In the 90s to early 2000s screw and company (other Houston rappers) did make the drug popular. A while After screw died Texas banned the stronger forms of lean that was being prescribed and sold. Now it's real watered down stuff like activist and such. The drug is hugely expensive and addicting.

Short dawg from Houston (not the old one, the short dawg signed to young money) he only came up in the rap scene because of lean. Lil Wayne signed him and moved him to Louisiana so he could have a full time lean connect. Recently short dawg quit drinking it and he looks skeleton skinny now. He had to quit or die really young due to how much he was drinking. I just know he had doctors on payroll to write prescriptions. I still talk to his little brother that I went to college with. He supplied all the Texas and Louisiana rappers for a long time. He's out the game from what I know now, don't think he even raps anymore.