Summer Songs and their Beers

Enjoy the first official day of Summer with the Slushy Gutter’s Official Summer Jams and corresponding beers:

Nuthin- The line of “pissy drunk in the club like da-da-da-daaaaa” applies to most of readers of this blog. This Summer 2002 club banger has got to have a “club” brew that makes you look all high post in your $150 Red Monkey jeans while getting shot down by some skank. Enjoy Noreaga’s banger with a Heinken bottle.

Work The Angles- I didn’t fully appreciate this Dialated Peoples' song until it appeared on the Summer of 1998’s classic Cali Kings mix CD. SoCal Hip Hop at its underground finest, kick back with it and a Pacifico.


Who’s the Man- I still can’t believe the cinematic 1993 Summer classic that this single is from didn’t win a single Oscar. Enjoy HoP’s finest single with a disgusting Little Kings Ale; the taste will make your face look like you’re gully as fuck.


Do It Again- Smooth Ice’s tour de force from the Summer of 1990. The Run DMC affiliate never made mush noise after his debut. The non-Hip Hop crowd used to ask me, “is this guy really deaf?” Keep it smooth with a Blue Moon and an orange slice.


Feel Me Flow- Perhaps Naughty’s swan song in the Summer of 1995. A smooth, laid back joint to listen to while chilling on your front porch on a lazy weekend. The beer for this is a chilly Red Stripe…(Hip Hop) Hooray for beer!


Neva Go Back- Special Ed returned to the Hip Hop world with this Summer of 1995 classic sure shot. Years older from his late 80’s debut, a more mature Ed spit the same classic metaphors and punchlines and the chorus “I neva go back, I neva flowed wack, I just come back, I just come phat.” Enjoy Ed with a more mature Sam Adams at your local pub.


Fakin The Funk- Main Source’s 1992 Summer banger was the highlight of the White Men Can’t Rap EP. A soulful tune, it is almost a “feel good” Hip Hop track if you could ever say that about the genre. It almost makes me want to sport my ‘Parental Advisory’ t-shirt, find a hoops partner named Sidney, and get popped by the Stooki brothers. Kick it with this joint and a Michelob.

We Run New York- The newness from Tony Toca is my joint in the 2007 Summer so far. Fierce lyricist Joell Ortiz blesses the track over the laced beat, along with Uncle Murda and a pretty nice verse from Lumidee. The new car smell from this track deserves the new Miller Chill beer.

Any MC- Nine’s debut album was in heavy rotation in the Summer of 1995. It could be considered the last Jeep rocking banger of the era. Riding around in your homey’s Jeep, top off, tape deck pumping, sucking down a cold can of PBR in a brown paper bag

Contents Unda Pressure- When this Liks song dropped in the Summer of 1997, I was living in the grossest, crappiest, dirtiest, straight trash apartment. Beer cans and bottles everywhere, trash stacked up that ants would be all over, dishes, pizza boxes, newspapers, and it was hot to all hell. Cue the lyric “…and there ain’t no telling when we’re about to explode, like tall cans in the freezer when they get too cold” and get yourself a tall boy Coors Light at the local gas station for $1.49.

Madd Mann- Come on, y’all know the Commish reps for the BCC, and Sean P’s slowed down track from Monkey Barz is a Summer of 2005 staple. Get all crazy, sit on your driveway or parking garage on an old school lawn chair, wearing a foam cowboy hat, pumping this jam and swilling a 5 liter Warsteiner party keg.

Raze It Up- Onyx’s Summer of 1998 is repped in this grimy, stripped down, raw track. A single piano key, Sticky and crew throwing down. This is a bit removed from even the “Slam” and “Throw Your Guns” days. Slam back to this track with some ugly as shit brew like a 32 ounce of Milwaukee’s Best.

Money In The Bank- This was in the deck throughout the Summer of 1990. Go old school and cheap with Kool G Rap & Polo, featuring the Large Professor and their dookey ropes on this one and a Keystone Light.

Husslin- T-Dot’s own Kardinal Offishall hit hard in the Summer of 2001 with his Quest For Fire album. The northern MC has kept a low pro since, but this was one of the early decades' most slept on CDs. Listen to the Great White North’s finest with – what else- a Molson Canadian.

Wonce Again Long Island- Somehow, someway, De La attracted the hippy and granola set in the early 90s. If I had a keg every time some patchouli smelling granola told me the “only” rap he listened to was De La Soul, I could run the beer tent at a Red Rocks Phish show. So, celebrate the counter culture with De La's 1996 jam and a Samuel Smiths bomber.

1- Download the SG Summer Beers Mix below
2- Go to liquor store
3- Buy each of the 15 beers above
4- Drink each beer during its song
5- Enjoy!

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