Nas spoke highly of Sprite's new launch of bringing the culture . Stefan Miller, senior brand manager, Sprite, called "Thirst for Yours" a modern-day evolution of the seminal "Obey Your Thirst" campaign, which promoted self-expression and individuality . Before the &qu. It's hard to get well-known sponsors sometimes for rap,"Rakim told writer Elliott Smith. One ad had a teenaged boy wearing a pair of baggy jeans, a puffy coat and boots with loose laces at a mall to be cool. I chanced By The words "obey your thirst" are placed at an equal proximity to each side of the ad. increased roughly 9% since the introduction, especially in the younger 1. Part of Sprite's "Obey Your Thirst" campaign of the late 1990s. As we examine the proximity in this ad, we can see that it is done very well. Bertini. Old tensions with CPGs resurface amid whispers that retail media is unprofitable and increasingly a cost of doing business with merchants. Drake - Obey Your Thirst (Official Trailer) The FADER. Around the same time Adidas hit their marketing jackpot by inking a deal with Run-DMC, Sprite wisely kicked off their I Love The Sprite In You campaign, tapping artists like Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J, Kid 'n Play and more to represent their brand to hip-hop culture. But this is one of those things, that when they call, you tell your man, 'I got a Sprite deal.' With this latest campaign, entitled "Thirst For Yours," Sprite hopes to create and elevate a community-led talent engine of the next . 24. For more than 30 years, Sprite has supported and embraced the music, culture and community of hip-hop in a refreshingly real way by authentically championing the genres top names and underground artists alike. Sprite Obey Your Thirst Commercial: Cinematography by Tommy Burns To further engage with Gen Z, Sprite is using tactics that are popular with the cohort, such as featuring social media content, working with influencers Kodie Shane and Seth Giscombe and developing experiential activations around the 2019 BET Awards. Over the years, Sprite has continued to be one of the most consistent brands in hip-hop. The brand will give the new campaign a push at this weekends BET Experience event in Los Angeles, where the Viacom subsidiary hosts a range of events, from music performances to fashion shows. Sprite Seedhi Baat baki sab bakwas-Indian Campaign. Asked why the brand is risking tinkering with its marketing now, Aaliyah Shafiq, group director for Sprite, says, This is a way for us to truly accelerate that momentum. It's something that has lasted in the hood it's authentic., Principles for Sustainable Agriculture (PSA), What the Fanta Mystery Flavors and Campaign, Coca-Cola Christmas Caravan Twenty Fifth Anniversary, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Invites Fans to #TakeATaste, Simply Mixology Raises the Bar of At-Home Mocktail & Cocktail Experiences, Sprite, Fresca, Seagrams, & Mark Ronson Madlib Music Connection. Two 30-second commercials, called ". The program, which also includes a podcast series, will eventually lean into other areas where the brand has a credible voicefrom sports to social issues, Richard Toranzo, who oversees social media for Sprite, stated in a recent corporate blog post. The album featured 100 Bottle Bags, a direct criticism against malt liquor companies marketing specifically to urban communities but they dont sell that sh*t in the white neighborhoods. Shortly after the release, St. Ides found itself in Chuck Ds crosshairs, and he fired the first in a series of big shots against the brand, marking the beginning of the end of their love affair with hip-hop. The distance between the borders of the ad and the words are equal. Sprite se vende en ms de 190 paises alrededor del mundo, y se la considera lder en ventas en cuanto a refrescos de lima - limon. The history of Sprite and hip-hop is a long one, spanning the careers of dozens of artists over more than three decades. Topics covered: social media, mobile, advertising, marketing tech, content marketing, and more. * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A common theme throughout the ads. The Sprite bottle is centered perfectly in this picture. The commercial then ends. to remember one thing, and only one thing, it should be this: Speeches Lymon was also out of the window, as they moved away from marketing taste and towards marketing attitude. Another famous spot has a young boy in a "Make-a-Wish" like program get to wrestle with. If you're loving Fresh Era, please check out the newest Stupid Fly podcast "Gold Rush" where we dig deep into the understated moments of Hip-Hop history. Explore our Purpose & Vision, History and more. By the late 1970s hip-hop began to grow beyond the warehouses and streets and into homes via radio and television. HE COCA-COLA Company recently relaunched its "Obey Your Thirst" campaign for its lemon-lime soft drink, Sprite. I wanted to usher in a real authenticity in terms of hip-hop in advertising. Sprite announced on Friday that it would tweak its "Obey Your Thirst" campaign to celebrate well-known lyrics by rappers. 15. The "Thirst For Yours" platform was designed to meet the changing tastes of younger consumers, a focus that continues with this . Launching today, Thirst For Yours will feature a series of TV spots, social media content, influencer engagement, outdoor advertising and experiential activations tapping into key cultural moments within the spaces of music, art, film and fashion. With the new campaign, Sprite wants to play a role in identifying under-the-radar talent. . It sucks for hip-hop fans. We've established a portfolio of drinks that are best positioned to grow in an ever-changing marketplace. In our premier episode, we examine the Sprite campaign that changed it all. Music is important and plays a role in all of our lives," said Bobby Oliver, director of Sprite & Citrus Brands,Coca-ColaNorth America at the time. ET, Webinar ** The ''Voltron'' crossover, which came out at the tail end of the infamous East-West Coast feud, featured several rappers, each representing different regions, trying to take out Zarkon's RoBeast individually, and getting faded each time. Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas and Grand Puba, who it is rumoured coined slogan Obey Your Thirst during a rehearsal. Pooh lined up a veritable whos who of additional West Coast rappers over the years, including Geto Boys, Cypress Hill, Warren G, Snoop and Tupac; plus the thorough-est from the East, including Eric B and Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, Biggie and EPMD. The brand was introduced in 1987 and their rap campaigns launched in 1988. We embraced that and ingrained ourselves as part of that culture," he said. Buzz60. ". and accepted with enthusiasm by the marketing team at Coca-Cola. Sprite comes in multiple flavors, including cranberry, . TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Its now a ubiquitous part of todays musical landscape. It (actually) sucks for Macklemore. The 90s had all of the world sprung on hip hop. It focused on. It took Afrika Bambatta convincing them to unite as Voltron to finally take it down. The Sprite ad's insinuated message is explicitly and unapologetically claimed by the Bible about . So, in 1986 the company cast rapper Kurtis Blow in a commercial for Sprite making it one of the first mainstream brands to feature hip hop stars in a national advertisement. Schultz. Whenever I see Sprite's slogan"Obey your thirst!"I think of Jesus' words to those He was preaching to during what is commonly known today as The Sermon on the Mount. Then, St. Ides and McKenzie River fell under legal scrutiny from the New York State Attorney General in 1992 for using verbiage like Cubes lyric Get your girl in the mood quicker, make your jimmy thickerSt. The hip hop portion of the campaign lasted well into the 2000s, with the slogan eventually just being shortened to "OBEY". When rating the advertisements, ninety-three percent of The Thirst For Yours campaign will include several activations where hip-hop music, fashion, art and culture intersect, starting with the BET Experience Weekend and the 2019 BET Awards in Los Angeles, CA. If you're loving Fresh Era, please check out the newest Stupid Fly podcast "Gold Rush" where we dig deep into the understated moments of Hip-Hop history. 23. unknown. The new sprite commercial features rapper Travis Scott. In the first spot of the series with Grand Puba and Large Professor, Puba closes with First things first, obey your thirst. Its legend even within Coca-Cola that Puba ad-libbed the phrase that then became the brands tagline that remains to this day. To deepen their street cred, Sprite went on to collaborate with artists like KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, AZ, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, a move that resulted in an invaluable cool factor for the brand. Color: The colors used in this are simple. Sprite ditched the pop-friendly crossover actsand identified more authentic rap artists lyricists with street and cultural cred to rep the brand. Over the next couple months, I began to take notice of Sprites absolute ubiquity in hip-hop culturefrom event sponsorship to its prevalence in the lean movement and the music and culture that spawned. Sprite is a lemon and lime soft drink for teenagers mainly with 100% natural . But amongst the colour and noise the creative team at Sprite identified the stories being told and the resilience of the artists behind them, and sought collaborations. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox, Get our latest stories in the feed of your favorite networks. 21. old campaign of "I like the Sprite in you!" Gone were the bright yellow and green sets, because while the new slogan said, Image is nothing, it was all about image. Complex even named Wu-Tangs St. Ides spot Shaolin Brew as one of the collectives 100 best songs! Soon, the company would transition to its heavily youth and urban market-focused Obey Your Thirst campaign in 1994. The article below is a work of fiction of unknown origin. Look no further. 2. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Advertising/ObeyYourThirst. knew the ads, 83% said the same. The popular soft drink, Sprite, has just come out with a new commercial that features the well-known rapper, Travis Scott. Enter Sprite. As the family is running from the creepy sun character, the mother trips over a vacuum cleaner. Thirst For Yours builds on the March launch of Sprite Way, a community-powered Spotify playlist and podcast highlighting unsigned hip-hop and R&B talent, and the #GetVocal campaign launched last fall, which invites fans to download a custom beat created by Izze the Producer and record a 60-second topical freestyle to share on social media. One day last year I was on YouTube watching some BET Cypher videos, and I kept noticing Sprites name plastered over everything. We can look back now with the wizened, woke eyes of maturity and possibly scrutinize our artists selling out at the expense of the community, but for the young and burgeoning hip-hop culture, both the St. Ides campaigns and the Sprite campaigns opened the door for the power and commodification of hip-hop and consumer brands. From underground parties to themost listened genre in the world, we take a look at the history of hip-hop, and Sprite. One of the only Brahma temples on earth is there, and the city's lake is said to have been made from one of Brahma . The early pioneers inspired a new generation of artists, and Sprite responded by showing their continued understanding and respect. St. Ides spots, however, looked and felt like straight up music videos with album-worthy production and flow. But in the early 90s, the genre was far from Madison Avenue-friendly. E.J. The campaign was also famous for producing several hip-hop focused ads, featuring several now-legendary emcees in various scenarios, including the last thing anyone expected: an official crossover with ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' ([[SincerityMode We're not joking, that actually happened]]). . Sprite has been there for us since they realised they could reach out and do things like this, artist Rakim said of the long history between hip-hop and Sprite.