[...] Good piano performance. Thanks heaps for this!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website http://www.en.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!…

i’m impressed by the writer, the musical contributor and wit-e with this comment

we can view it now, as elders and understand that YES it was exploitation of a type, but in the beginning it was THE ONLY SPONSOR we had.

Hip Hop is a culture, but it also a business, so we do have to give love to St. Ides…they were the only ones letting us make commercials in the beginning.

even more so than st. ides special brew, mad dog was the poor man’s cisco fa’sho.
i done drank plenty o’ the daaaaaawg. shit came in a flask. red, blue, purple…
i bought that shit with food stamps once, tell me that ain’t ghetto LOL

what the fuck was i thinkin? :-\

WOOOOO!

this is GREAT, i ain’t even catch all these references before. kelis must still be bent off that ides, askin nas for more fuckin cash after gettin 55K or whateva per month. but how pac gonna dis st. ides twice & that nigga did a commercial for them? LMAO! gotta love it.

oh shit… word! i ain’t even notice burns left off that biggie joint. and the pac/snoop joint too. i’ve been false advertising, tellin ppl they’re on there. damn! i gotta call burns up & let ‘em know.

special brew was my shit too… it was like a cheaper version of cisco, which was cheap enuff as it was. special brew was sweet but it was strong as a muthafucka. i got a shitload of stories about wylin’ out off that brew.

thanks for strengthening this post, mayne.

and the joint with Pac & Snoop:

off wiki:

Scarface drops the line “guzzling up a 40 oz of cold St. Ides” in his single “Let me Roll”.

Black Thought of The Roots states “I’m crooked like the I on the toxic malt liquor” in the song “Section” on their album Illadelph Halflife.

Ice Cube mentions St. Ides in 1991′s “Steady Mobbin’” and 1992′s “When Will They Shoot?”.

Gift of Gab of rap group Blackalicious states in the song “40 oz for Breakfast” on their album Melodica that he spells “relief S-T-I-D-E-S”.

Tupac Shakur dissed the drink in his songs “Young Black Male” (1991) and “Crooked Nigga Too” (2004) saying, “I don’t drink St. Ides” while “Fuck that!” is shouted in the background.

Spice 1 sings “Should I get St. Ides or Old E?” in Money or Murder on his self-titled album (1991).

Eazy-E mentions St. Ides in his 1993 song “Any Last Werdz” featuring Kokane and Cold 187um: “People say it ain’t wise, to get faded off the St. Ides”.

The East Coast hip hop duo Mobb Deep are “chasing St. Ides down with some Seagram’s gin” in their 1995 song “Cradle to the Grave”.

The rap group Luniz were known admirers of the drink, as stated in their 1995 song “I Got 5 on It” (“Go get the S-t. I-d-e-s”).

Former funk metal band L.A.P.D. has a song titled St. Ides

“St. Ides Heaven” is the title of a song by indie rock musician Elliott Smith on his 1995 self-titled album.

In 1993′s “Bless Da 40 Oz.”, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony—then known as B.O.N.E. Enterprise—rap about buying a 40oz of St. Ides “for a dollar ninety even”.

The pop punk band Fenix TX mentions St. Ides Special Brew in their 1999 song “Apple Pie Cowboy Toothpaste”: “She gets her stomach pumped and runs to buy another case/Of the Michelob ’cause the Lone Star just won’t do/And the beer tastes awfully used, St. Ides and even Special Brew”.

Afroman mentions the drink in his song “Tall Cans” from his 2001 album The Good Times: “My Homie popped a 40 of some St. Ides/Now that knucklehead staggerin’ from side to side”.

Long Beach rapper Crooked I’s name was inspired by the crooked “I” on the St. Ides’ bottle label.[citation needed]

R&B singer-songwriter Kelis mentions St. Ides in the song “Flash Back”, from her 2001 album Wanderland, as she sings, “And that’s when you walked by/Holding your St. Ides”.

Dat Nigga Daz / Daz DillengerI mentions it but apparently prefers Old English in his song Don’t Try to Play Me Homie he says “crack a forty of that Eight fuck St. Ides I love the taste”

In their 2001 song “Sippin’ 40z”, the electropop group Gravy Train!!!! states, “If you make your momma cry, I’ll give you some of my St. Ides”.

Richmond Fontaine’s 2007 album Thirteen Cities has a song called “St. Ides, Parked Cars, And Other People’s Homes”.

In Brotha Lynch Hung’s song “Deep Down” , Mr. Doctor says, “Yeah, I got my St. Ides, I’m turnin it up, to get drunk”.

MF DOOM—while performing with rap group KMD under his earlier pseudonym “Zev Love X”—mentions St. Ides in the 1993 song “Sweet Premium Wine”. He sings (to the tune of the children’s song “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”), “I knew a old lady who swallowed St. Ides / I don’t know why she swallowed St. Ides”.