For centuries, musicians have used drugs to enhance creativity, and listeners have used drugs to heighten the pleasure created by music. And the two riff off each other, endlessly. The relationship between drugs and music is also reflected in lyrics and in the way these lyrics were composed by musicians, some of whom were undoubtedly influenced by the copious amounts of heroin, cocaine, and “reefer” they consumed, as their songs sometimes reveal.

Acid rock would never have happened without LSD, and house music, with its repetitive 4/4 beats, would have remained a niche musical taste if it weren’t for the wide availability of MDMA (ecstasy, molly) in the 1980s and 1990s. And don’t be fooled by country music’s wholesome name. Country songs make more references to drugs than any other genre of popular music, including hip hop....
https://positivepsychology.org.ng/2023/09/20/romance-between-drugs-and-music/