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Hip-Hop Drinking Songs

By | The Y! Music Playlist Blog – Tue, Jan 29, 2008 2:39 PM EST

Alcohol falls squarely within the "drugs" part of "Drugs, Sex & Rock and Roll". We have already created five booze-centric playlists for your enjoyment, but as you would expect, there are many more yet to be crafted.

The alcohol related playlists we have posted so far include, a roots music list of songs about moonshine, a set of country songs about drinking, country songs about whiskey, prohibition era songs and blues songs about drinking. For this list I wanted to expand the horizon a bit, so I've wondered around for a while to come up with a CD's worth of hip-hop tracks that pay homage to the bottle.

Cristal champagne used to be the drink of choice for the hip-hop elite, but that all changed when Jay-Z boycotted the expensive bubbly after managing director of Cristal, Frederic Rouzaud, said that he looked at hip-hop culture's love of their product with "curiosity and serenity." Agenda Inc., a brand strategy agency that tracks mentions of products in popular songs, reported that Cristal ranked an impressive number 8 in 2005.

No word yet on what may replace the expensive champagne as the king of beverages within the world of hip-hop, but some of the products named in this playlist could be one of them.

Hip-Hop Drinking Songs

1. Drinkin' Again (Interlude) - Outkast

2. Gin And Juice II - Snoop Dogg

3. Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys

4. Pass The 40 - Black Sheep 

5. Only When I'm Drunk - The Alkaholiks

6. 40 Oz. - D12

7. Drink It Up - The Fila Fresh Crew

8. My Drinking Club - E-40 

9. Cognac - AllFrumTha I

10. Pass The 40 - People Under The Stairs

11. Colt 45 - Afroman

12. Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - Jay-Z 

13. Tipsy - J-Kwon

14. Drinkin' Wine - Beastie Boys 

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