That's A Awful Lot of Cough Syrup Graphic T-Shirt

The Sentence Is Innocent on the Surface. It Is Not Innocent. “That’s a Awful Lot of Cough Syrup” Graphic Tee in Light Gray.

This is the tee that wears the sentence — the specific line that became a marker of cultural fluency, spoken by the person in the room who noticed the quantity of the specific ingredient in the specific beverage that the South invented and the rap world adopted and DJ Screw scored to the specific tempo that the beverage produces in the person drinking it. Lean. Purple drank. Sizzurp. The prescription syrup — codeine and promethazine — poured into the cup with the soda and the candy until the color is the specific purple that is immediately recognizable to anyone who recognizes it and completely explainable as a pharmaceutical product to anyone who doesn’t. The sentence lives in that gap: surface-legible as a comment about medicine, entirely specific in meaning to those who know what medicine this is for. “a awful” not “an awful” — the grammar is the dialect, the voice of the place this sentence comes from, unchanged because the dialect is the sentence and the sentence without the dialect is a different sentence. Light Gray is the color of the person who said it: not purple, not in the cup, watching the cup from the outside with the specific clarity that the color of observation rather than participation provides. The sober eye in the room where purple is the dominant color. The person who counted and then spoke.

Why You’ll Love It

• 💜🩺🖤 “That’s a Awful Lot of Cough Syrup” Tee in Light Gray — the sentence the sober person says — surface-legible as pharmaceutical observation — entirely specific to those who know the specific cough it treats — the grammar is the dialect: “a awful,” preserved as spoken
• 💜 The specific beverage: lean / purple drank / sizzurp — codeine + promethazine prescription syrup + soda + candy — the specific purple of Houston, of DJ Screw’s slowed-down sound, of the ATL and every city that learned from them — the most culturally significant refreshment in the history of Southern rap
• 🎵 DJ Screw made the music that moves at the speed of this — the tempo of the beverage and the tempo of the music co-evolved — Houston invented both — the sentence comes from the world those two things built together
• 🖤 Light Gray: the observer’s color — not purple, not in the cup — the clarity of the eye that counted the amount and then said the sentence — the sober presence in the room where purple is dominant — watching, not drinking
• 🗣️ “a awful” not “an awful” — the dialect is the point — to correct the grammar is to remove the voice — the sentence in the specific spoken form of the place it came from — unchanged
• 📏 Sizes S – XL — Unisex — Pure Cotton — Light Gray: the observer, not the observed — wear the sentence in the grammar it was spoken in

Product Details

• Brand: That’s a Awful Lot of Cough Syrup
• Style: Graphic Statement T-Shirt — Unisex — Pure Cotton
• Color: Light Gray
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL
• Price: $59.00 USD

Note: “a awful” not “an awful” — the dialect is the sentence. Light Gray: the sober eye in the room. The cough syrup is not about the cough. Houston made the sound that moves at this speed. Wear the observation.