Summer Drink Specials

With the Memorial Day holiday just around the corner, we could use a reminder about urban summer recreational options. While rollin' with the top down or BBQ-ing on the beach seem to be West Coast-centric hot weather activities, city-dwelling East Coasters tend to prefer malt liquor or cocktail sipping on the stoop.

During a discussion of summertime in Brooklyn, The Professor alerted me to a seasonal drink recipe guaranteed to cool you down after a hot afternoon spent sitting on the stoop:

Thug Passion (Tupac's favorite drink)
            1 shot of alize
            1 shot of hennessey cognac

If reading that doesn't make you feel nauseated, here are a few more urban-themed summer drink recipes:

 Gangsta Milk
1 Tblsp of 2% milk
1/2 cup of Mad Dog
a little vodka
and the foam from a shook up 22oz of Olde E

Ghetto Fabulous
Get an expensive Snifter glass
fill it with Olde English malt liquor
drop an olive in the glass

Friday Night Sauce
2 shots of Hot Damn
1 shot of hot sauce
3 shots of Code Red Mountain Dew
(sip and let it sizzle)

Ghetto Blaster
1/4 oz. Kahlua
1/4 oz. Metaxa
1/4 oz. Tequila
1/4 oz. Rye Whiskey
Layer in a shot glass

Playa' Passion Vodka
1 bottle of (cheap swill) Vodka.
3 BIG bags of Skittles.
2 water bottles (one big, one small).
Sort Skittles into 2 separate piles: one for the red, orange and yellow, one for the green.
Eat the purple while you work.
Split the vodka into the 2 water bottles
Place green Skittles into small bottle
Place rest of Skittles into big bottle
Let stand for 2 days

Ghetto Margarita
1 shot of tequila
1 shot of 7up

More mixed drink recipes here

Tunes for boozin' (Real Audio):
Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz “Get Crunk” (from an archive of Michael Goodstein's show)
Sissy Bar "Gin and Juice" (from an archive of Hova's show)

High rollers may prefer Cristal or Armadale, best when served in the presence of Jay-Z and his cronies.

If sweet liquor ain't your thing, stick to the classic 40 oz malt beverages. Plenty of lip service is paid to the sultan of the stoop (pictured, left):

(Real Audio from an archive of Nickel and Dime Radio with Small Change)
Eric B and Rakim “Real Men’s Drink”
Geto Boys "My Malt's Playin' Tricks On Me"
EPMD/Ice Cube "East Meets West Malt Liquor"
Snoop Doggy Dogg  "Dogg Food 'n Drank" 
Kool G Rap/DJ Pooh/Sir Jinx "Getta Grip, Take A Sip" 
All from DJ Drank's "Greatest Malt Liquor Hits" CD

Here are a few ads for some old favorites (Real Audio from Bob Brainen's show):
Schlitz Beer ad #5
Ballantine Beer ad #2 (Ballantine gets gold stars for the "XXX" on its label)

Monica suggests Pink Champale, a drink associated with all that is classy (click for real audio of "Ch- Check It Out" by the Beastie Boys, a-capella version, from an archive of Inner Ear Detour with David Suisman).

Comments

[Michael Haley]

Ghetto drinks are hysterical. But I think I'm gonna try to use up my leftover m&m's since I'm out of skittles.