# Whatever happened to rapper boycott of Cristal? Is it not hip anymore?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 16, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-rapper-boycott-of-cristal-is-it-not-hip-anymore/477455 "2008-12-16T21:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Wikipedia_Cites)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-rapper-boycott-of-cristal-is-it-not-hip-anymore/477455/1 "2008-12-16T21:07:55Z")

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Awhile back the head of Cristal champagne was misinterpreted as saying he didn’t want hip hop artists to be associated with the brand. Subsequently, Jay-z boycotted it from his work.

So is Cristal no longer ‘hip’?

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-rapper-boycott-of-cristal-is-it-not-hip-anymore/477455/2 "2008-12-16T21:13:10Z")

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While I’m admittedly not a big player in the after-hours rap/hip-hop scene :eek:, it seems to me that the entire Cristal/bling/solid-gold-rooms fad has become somewhat passe.

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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-rapper-boycott-of-cristal-is-it-not-hip-anymore/477455/3 "2008-12-16T21:27:35Z")

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^We can hope.