Nelly Taking Heat For New Pimp Juice Energy Drink
Yahoo! Music, Sep 4, 2003 7:00 am PDT(9/4/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Rapper Nelly launched his new energy drink, Pimp Juice, on September 1, but the rapper is already coming under fire from a North Carolina minister who believes that the drink popularizes the pimp lifestyle.
Reverend Paul Scott, founder of the Messianic Afrikan Nation in Durham, North Carolina, took exception to a statement on the product's website which quotes Nelly's company, Team Lunatics, as saying the new energy drink mixes well with vodka. Scott also disliked a statement on the website urging the consumer to be "the first P.I.M.P. on the block to try Nelly's new premium energy drink."
Scott shared his concerns in a recent e-mail that said, "The black community is in danger, right now. As black men we should be building a nation of strong black leaders, not a nation of super energized, drunk pimps."
Nelly named the energy drink after his hit song "Pimp Juice" from his 2002 multi-platinum album, Nellyville. At the time, the rapper explained that the term refers to whatever attribute that you have going for you that allows you to come out on top. "Pimp juice is anything that attract the opposite sex," Nelly said. "You know, of course, you heard the song--money, fame, or intellect. It don't matter. Whatever you using to get ahead or whatever you think people are really taking to you for, that's kinda like your juice. Whatever you using to win with right now, that's your juice--that's your pimp juice, so keep pimping."
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