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September 9, 2005

Stone Cold Rhymin'

Young MC, then and now:

1989 "Come on, fatso, and just bust a move."
2006 Celebrity Fit Club 3!

Mr. MC will join Chastity Bono, Bruce Vilanch, Kelly LeBrock, Countess Vaughn, Jeff Conaway, Tempestt Bledsoe and Bizare at VH1's B-List fat camp.

Anyone remember Pepsi's Cool Cans promotion? Young MC rapped about it in the commercials. Fifteen years later and I can't believe the jingle's still in my head.

Cool cans are coming so don't be afraid / If you get lucky then you might get paid.
I hope Young MC and Vanessa Huxtable hit it off. It would be like I Love The '80s meets Real World: Austin meets The Biggest Loser.

UPDATE:

To be cool and be somewhat respectable / Pick up Pepsi in these hype receptacles.
Brain, you're gonna get a beating for remembering this shit.

Posted at 3:37 PM




27 Comments

when you stacked the "neon" cans, it spelled out "s-e-x"! remember?!?

Posted by: nick at 09/09/05 3:44 PM | Reply
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Sad to say, I still have one of those "neon" ones. I think I drank the thing in the summer of '90 and decided it was worth saving.

Posted by: UglyRedHonda at 09/09/05 3:46 PM | Reply
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oh man, my family saved one of each can and the last time i was home, they were still in the cabinet next to the sink.

Posted by: steve at 09/09/05 3:46 PM | Reply
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damn...my predictions were all wrong!!!
I thought for sure wendy the snapple lady be on there again and maybe mike reno from loverboy.

Posted by: lil_bastard at 09/09/05 3:52 PM | Reply
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i have a small collection of them and yes, the neon ones are stacked to spell "S-E-X" :)

Posted by: prime at 09/09/05 3:54 PM | Reply
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the new franz leaked, check your slsk and bit torrent communities.

Posted by: chadwicksaid at 09/09/05 3:54 PM | Reply
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Seeing that photo of those cans is like going back to 1990 instantly for 5 seconds.

Posted by: Carlolove at 09/09/05 3:55 PM | Reply
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One more witness here to the S-E-X stacked can phenom! Reminds me of The Lion King controversy, but that's another story.

I may not have those particular cans hiding away, but I do have an empty Crystal Pepsi can somewhere.

Posted by: Blu at 09/09/05 4:24 PM | Reply
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A little whoring...new Franz ferdinand on my blog.

Posted by: Hoarse at 09/09/05 4:32 PM | Reply
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how do they spell sex? i wanna seeee!

Posted by: LG at 09/09/05 4:37 PM | Reply
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Two things:

1) Kelly LeBrock is fat? Damn, that sucks. I really have to avoid watching Celebrity Fit Club just so I can keep that "Weird Science" image of perfection of her in my mind.

2) I remember there was a rumor with the Cool Cans contest that the winning cans didn't have Pepsi in them, just some kind of unknown clear liquid, and that someone actually drank it and got sick.

Posted by: Justin at 09/09/05 4:44 PM | Reply
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I'm almost positive that the Cool Cans were not the ones with the $100 in them. I think that was done at the same time, but by Coke, not Pepsi. Cool Cans were a contest, but I think it was the traditional "look inside to see if you won" contest.

I do also remember the rumor about the liquid not being soda and people complaining because the $100 didn't pop out so they drank the not-soda thinking it was a normal can. I suppose the liquid was supposedly harmful. But man, that was in pre-internet days, so rumors had a lot more of the "purple Monkey Dishasher" effect back then.

Posted by: Topher at 09/09/05 5:02 PM | Reply
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See I was right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Cans

Magic Cans were the Coke thing with the 100 bucks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagiCans

Posted by: Topher at 09/09/05 5:06 PM | Reply
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When did Kelly LeBrock become fat... she was so hot....

I just cant picture it...

Posted by: kiki at 09/09/05 5:06 PM | Reply
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How fat could Kelly LeBrock be? The article I read said she put on some extra pounds so she could be on the show. If that's true, she's not really so much fat as desparate for attention.

Posted by: clearlynuts at 09/09/05 5:12 PM | Reply
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Thanks pop culture savants -- Stereogum readers gots the Cool Can knowledge, obvs!

Posted by: scott at 09/09/05 5:18 PM | Reply
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Can someone tell me who Bizare is?

Posted by: Daphne at 09/09/05 5:20 PM | Reply
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I think Bizarre's the giant guy from D12-

http://images.google.com/images?q=bizarre+d12

Posted by: Jim at 09/09/05 5:25 PM | Reply
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stacked "neon" can S-E-X:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Pepsi.GIF

Posted by: nick at 09/09/05 5:50 PM | Reply
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I remember YMC boasting that the Pepsi came in a "hype receptacle."

Posted by: Jake at 09/09/05 7:11 PM | Reply
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You're totally right, Jake!

Posted by: scott at 09/09/05 7:51 PM | Reply
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i have an acoustic cover of "bust a move" on my myspace page - you can download it there. it is like 5 minutes long yo cuz there is a lot of words in that song - click my name for the link

Posted by: the daveman at 09/10/05 4:19 PM | Reply
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Didn't he also do a Taco Bell commercial with Cool Cups? If memory serves: "Three cups in all/So Don't Stand Still/And If you have an empty cup you get a free refill/Go to Taco Bell and place your order/Take my advice you'd better run for the border." I, too, am greatly shamed I remember that.

Posted by: Ferris at 09/11/05 9:02 AM | Reply
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You forgot the beginning:

I'm Young Mc with a story to tell
I just got a free cup from Taco Bell
MTV makes the whole thing fun
come in today and you can get one (maybe)

and the line was "they're for a limited time so don't stand still" I think there was four cups.

Posted by: Ken at 09/12/05 12:42 PM | Reply
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That's one of those jingles forever burned on my brain. I was in junior high at the time, and remember kids singing the jingle as "if you get lucky then you might get Laid."

But check here to see the cans stacked to spell S-E-X
http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/pepsisex.asph

Posted by: Sarah at 09/23/05 2:42 PM | Reply
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This is young MC with a story to tell
I just got a free cup from taco bell
And MTV makes the whole thing fun
Buy a giant size Pepsi and you'll get one
Four cups in all, so don't stand still
And if you got an empty cup you get a free refil
Come to taco bell and you'll see it's true
They got these four cups they're just for you
Taco Bell only has them for a limited time
That's why I'm comin' to you with a limited rhyme
To get these cups you gotta place your order
So take my advice you better run for the border :-)

Posted by: Jon at 12/27/06 3:58 PM | Reply
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I am searching all over the internet for this video. Anyone know where it is?

Posted by: misty at 02/09/08 11:03 PM | Reply
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