THE MOST INFAMOUS ICE CREAM-CAKE IN ALL OF HIP-HOP HISTORY.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on Carvel's Cookie Puss ice cream-cake character that influenced the 1983 comedy hip-hop song of the same name by the BEASTIE BOYS. The image was featured in the "Beastie Boys Book," published in 2018, and written by Mike D. & Ad-Rock.
SONG FACTS:
"An early Beastie Boys song, this one is about the Carvel ice cream cake Cookie Puss, which has cookies for eyes and an ice cream cone for a nose (and on St. Patrick's day, it became Cookie O'Puss). It was advertised in the Beastie stomping grounds of New York City with low-budget TV commercials featuring the voice of company founder Tom Carvel. Like many youths, the Beasties grew fascinated with Cookie Puss and saw his inherent humor."
The song is essentially a prank phone call to Carvel where Ad-Rock hectors an employee, asking to speak with Cookie Puss and then trying to order one. They were all teenagers at the time, so these kind of prank calls were on brand. Like many of their interactions of that era, it's one Ad-Rock came to regret. "There's a definitely line between funny prank call and being mean," he wrote in the Beastie Boys Book. "Just randomly calling and cursing a woman out on the phone is not cool."
Source: https://twitter.com/BeastieBoysBook/status/1057662783020384256 (I cropped it to death, though!)