Slow Your Roll
Filed under: Wacky, Tacky & True
This is something that we definitely will NOT be drinking! We need as much energy as we can get!
A beverage company has come out with an 'anti' energy drink called Drank.
Its tag line is "slow your roll." Pretty clever.
The drink's publicist called it the 'extreme relaxation beverage' that goes great with vodka.
The carbonated, grape-flavored beverage is spiked with melatonin, valerian root and rose hips.
What the heck?
Why?????
The creator was apparently thinking of the hip hop community when he concocted it.
The product's press release says, "From design to production, every aspect of this calming drink was inspired by today’s popular hip hop artists who embrace the much sought-after hip hop lifestyle that encourages people to capture a stress-free state of mind."
So, what we're gathering is that it's basically a pot high in a can or something that makes an E high last longer?
Drank up!
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Maybe this is meant to be a bedtime drink to help people get more zzzzzzzz's.
Otherwise why bother.
and why is it purple? because of grape soda? lol.. jk… oh well.. u gotta make money somehow.. oh and stupid kids will buy it just to be … "COOOOL!
2ND
Maybe it works to calm your azz down!…
melatonin comes from Cow Brains.
delish.
ewww that sounds gross.
THATS FUCKING AWESOME.
whoa, nice… i wanna try it.
"From design to production, every aspect of this calming drink was inspired by today’s popular hip hop artists who embrace the much sought-after hip hop lifestyle that encourages people to capture a stress-free state of mind."
First!
First?
wat? stupid. fall asleep in a club. real cool. alcohol already is a depressant that makes the body slow/tired as it is!
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If it's a pot high in a can then hook me up. And it's grape flavored too? Can't beat that.
because we like to get stoned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wtf? don't think anyone will buy that!
so cool
FIRSTTTTTTT….BROWN POWERRRRRRRR WOOT WOOOTTT..
Darn it….second! I'll pass on that drink though….I like my energy!
It's called two seconds of research, Perez.
Purple Drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip-hop community of the Southern United States. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine.[1]
Perez…are you reading FARK.com again?
I'm not sure why they went for the hip-hop route, but beverages and foods with melatonin in them are very popular for a more natural sleep aid. So this drink is not really all that weird, aside from the marketing…
My husband works at a beer barn/frozen drink stand. The "hip hop" crowd get grape drinks and sodas and spike them with "Lean". Phenergran. That is totally what this drink is for.
No shit it extends your E high… "slow your roll"
Dipshit
So basically they've made a date-rape drink? WTF?
"GIMMIE SOME OF THAT PURPLE STUFFFFFFFF"
GRAPE DRANK!
mother fucking genius, I will most definitely be trying this!
this sounds like something that would make you feel better when coming down off of an E high. Not something that would make the E high last longer.
I work in the beverage industry…this is not real! There is a popular mix of grape cough syrup (or other cold medicine) and 7-up going around and this is a spoof on that…
I actually take melatonin every night for my sleeping disorder. So this seems like a good idea to me. And to everyone that doesn't know what melatonin, well melatonin is a vitamin you can pick up at the any store like walmart or walgreens but it helps you fall asleep fast and stay asleep. You know when you eat turkey at Thanksgiving you are real tired afterwards and want to take a nice long nap, well melatonin is found in turkey.
WHAT A GREAT IDEA, AND HEALTHY TOO!!! GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO ALCOHOL.
Perez, are you dumb? Haven't you heard about sizzurp?? I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be like that codeine high. I don't think it's even relevent to pot or E.
NEXT…LEGAL MARY JANE WOO!!
Dude! Where can I pick some up? Are dealers gonna be straight slingin it on the corner?
Come on every1.. it's supposed to simulate grape cough syrup. Sippin on that purple drank… I'm not even from the hood & I know that!
awww, you poor naive people….
this is CLEARLY made to look and taste like codine promithazene a purple mix that people from the south (H-town espically) drink to get messed up. have you people never heard of DJ screw???? he died from the stuff, what the hell are people promoting it for??
It's supposed to be like purple drank from the south…you know like lean! That's why its purple and that's why it makes you relaxed but it doesn't work, my boyfriend already drank some!
Melatonin is the hormone in the brain that is released in increments based on the amount of light the eye is receiving and it regulates biorhythms. i.e. it would cause our brain to think it's nighttime and it needs to go to sleep.
Come on every1.. it's supposed to simulate grape cough syrup. Sippin on that purple drank… I'm not even from the hood & I know that! Diane know's what's up.
I don't think it's stupid.. at the end of a party when you're al hyped up you can tak ethis drink so when yo come home you can actually fall asleep and not be wide awake for a couple of houres
i like this idea. everyone needs to chill out anyway.
Yeah, it most definitely must be for the hip hop community, because everyone knows the ROCKSTAR
Yeah, it most definitely must be for the hip hop community, because everyone knows the ROCKSTAR community would prefer COCAINE in a can…fucking crackheads….
i cant wait for this!
Rollin is doing X
This is awesome. I love how the hip hop lifestyle is about relaxation and not working, and being lazy, and getting places late. I notice it's grape flavored. How odd… .colored folks are famous for liking grape beverages. The jokes write themselves
a "stress free state of mind"…..is that fancy talk for allways having a gun on u …and having your posse beat up everyone that looks at u
Perez you Fat Gay asshole- you just said the most prejudiced thing. That soda was obviously made for the hip hop community. I am so shocked and ashamed of you. That was wrong -and you call Rumer a Potatoehead
Why don't they just it "fat ass in a can"?
ITS LEGAL SIZZURP OR LEAN…ITS THE SHIT..HARD TO FIND …JUST BOUGHT A PALLET OF IT!
If you know anything about Texas rap, they talk about Purple Drank. It is liquor mixed with cough syrup that generally slowwws you down. Just listen to any Mike Jones, Paul Wall, or Bun B songs.
melatonin gives me nightmares!
You could not know less about drugs and their effects on brain chemistry. E is in no way shape or form similar to pot. And on a side note, you might want to think twice about bashing people who smoke pot when you drink alcohol - a far more harmful drug than pot. Tylenol and Aspirin are also more harmful than pot.
Please stop eating up American anti-drug propaganda.
I've tried that codeine cough syrup before. I was prescribed it though.. I took a double dose by accident and it messed me up. I could not keep my head up.
Valerin comes from africa, its a root that helps people sleep. meletonin encourages natural sleep habits.
DUH not that hard to look up.
Hell, I'd drink it…
Re: April –
Are you damned retarded? Melatonin is not a vitamin, it's a hormone. And the stuff in turkey that makes you sleepy is tryptophan.
Maybe you should get a clue before you start shoving pills down your throat.
Hip hop is still popular? LOL
like codiene mixed drinks that rappers make. cough syrup+alcohol+other shit=purple drank… it's a whole huge movement.
That's been available at the corner store down the street for nearly a year now.
Old news once again!
Ha!! It's like a liquid joint!
I"D DRINK THAT
This is definitely a REAL product, I know people who have bought it before. It isnt available everywhere though. And its definitely a take on "lean", aka promethazine codeine mixed w/ some any kind of soft drink, etc,
lean = what pimp c died of !!! and dj screw, big moe, etc.
Just so ppl know, Drank is real, it was "conceived" in Houston by a soda rep, and they are test marketing it here ( I had heard about drank before it came out, a friend of mine used to work for that guy, I'm so connected>;). I have one in my fridge. It actually just makes you really sleepy, I have only had about a half a can and in about 30 minutes, I went to bed. I haven't tried combining it with illegal narcotics though.
Since WHEN has the hip-hop community been about remaining "calm" ???
They always seem pretty fucking hyped up to me.
Maybe this is the drink to bring you down after smoking crack and meth; two chemicals that seem to be the norm these days in the "gangsta" community.
And what's the sense of combining a herb such as valerian with vodka? Something that HELPS sleep, along with something that DISTURBS sleep?
Fuck. Human beings are becoming more stupid every day.
come down to houston, tx where it all started we'll show you what purple drank iz all bout!! :p
I wonder if it's like the "Be Relaxed" flavored Vitaminwater–
the melatonin makes you sleepy
Re: Graham – melatonin is a hormone found in animals and humans you idiot.
did anyone else think about this being used to help come down off coke? jw lol.
I will try this for sure. I don't naturally need any uppers. I don't need the energy drinks. I am not on drugs! I normally have a lot of energy. I will definitely need to try this drink. I would probably drink it in the evenings when it's time to slow down.
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Great, it's for lazy niggs. It's purple because they love grape ne-hi and hi-c. Perefect for lounging around the house collecting welfare and smokin dope!
This is probably dangerous. It's a known fact that drinking while taking pills like valium can be deadly, and valerian root is the plant that valium is derived from. I drink valerian tea, but combin