In a recent interview with AllHipHop.com, Travie was asked how he feels about the cocaine charges surrounding Bruno Mars, the singer who had a big part in the success of Travie’s first single as a solo artist, “Billionaire”. He also offers a reason as to why cocaine usage seems like the “norm” these days in the industry. He tells AHH:

Travie McCoy: I mean, let’s not kid ourselves. Drugs and music have been this filthy relationship since the beginning. Drugs, sex and rock and roll, you know what I mean? That’s not to condone it at all, though. The song I did, Viva La White Girl, that’s not condoning the use of cocaine. It was more so comparing the high you get going to a show and listening to music to the high you get from drugs. But I mean, it is what is is…we all make mistakes. I was very open a couple years ago with my addiction to pain killers and in doing that, a lot of kids came to me after shows like, “thank you so much for being so open. You helped me get through some rough times.” If I could do that, it is what it is.

Bruno’s situation, I don’t really want to speak on it too much but at the same time, we don’t really know all the pressure that dude’s under right now that would lead him to go that route, you know? There’s no instruction manual to this type of lifestyle, you know what I mean? So we falter, we f*ck up…we’re human. I think that just goes to show the human element of being a celebrity and being an artist. It’s just that whenever we f*ck up, it gets put under the microscope. There are cokeheads and crack heads walking up and down Varick right now and nobody really gives a f*ck but the minute one of us slips up, it’s like ahhhh! But at the end of the day, we’re role models, whether we acknowledge that or not. But we are human and I think that’s the most important thing.

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