Drank & Drugs

Record label TopNotch originally did not believe that "Drank & Drugs" was a good fit for the New Wave album, because it sounded more tech house than the rest of the hip-hop on the album. Lil' Kleine wrote the lyrics in the studio with his friends, who he invited.^[1] The song became a hit during secondary school exam season in the Netherlands.^[2] It was also popular in Belgium, where Lil' Kleine and Ronnie Flex performed the song at the Pukkelpop festival.^[3]

The song was also controversial, as it was seen as promoting drug use and alcohol consumption for teenagers, including the lyric "Alle tieners zeggen ja tegen MDMA" (lit. 'All teenagers say yes to MDMA'). Radio DJs were asked to not play the song during hours when children would be listening.^[1] Sander Dekker, a Dutch politician who was serving as the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, spoke out against the song. The RTL 4 nightly news programme EditieNL brought on a pedagogue to discuss the song. A version without the MDMA reference was released.^[4] Primary school students often requested DJs to play the song for them, and some felt uncomfortable.^[5]

In response, radio DJ Giel Beelen wrote a children's version of the song, where the titular phrase was replaced with "chips and Coke", and the lyrics encouraged teenagers to say yes to Ranja, a fruit-flavoured syrup and drink.^[6]

Ronnie Flex said that "Parents are crazy if their child manages to get MDMA at the age of ten. I think the responsibility lies with them."^[5]

The music video was directed by Sam de Jong and starred British-Dutch actress Olivia Lonsdale. It received four million views on YouTube within the first month.^[5] In the video, Lonsdale and others hump several inanimate objects including a lawn, a park bench, a parking sign, a full garbage bag, a tree and a bush. In the American media, GQ wrote an article calling it "arguably the most bizarre thing to come out of the Netherlands...well, this month."^[7]