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The assumption is that when teenagers want to drink, they buy the cheapest beer or booze or just suck down whatever they can steal from their parents' liquor cabinets.

But a new study finds that when it comes to liquors, there's a racial divide.

Brands like Hennessy, Konyak, and Sarak vodka are preferred

by black youth. In fact, 12 alcohol brands among the top 25 preferred brands for black

drinkers don't appear at all on the top 25 for young white drinkers. The one thing that we were

able to find that tied all those brands together was that they are all heavily promoted in urban music culture.

The studies lead researcher Michael Siegel of Boston University's Graduate School of Public Health.

There are specific songs about those brands.

There are artists, in some cases actually are spokespeople for the brand.

There are artists that are paid by alcohol companies

with very large marketing deals. The findings were in the journal of substance abuse.

The message of much of these lyrics is through alcohol and specifically through these

particular brands,

you can actually obtain a slice of prestige and a slice of upper social class,

maybe not in real life, but at least it makes you feel like you're obtaining that through the use of these particular brands of alcohol.

Siegel's research also compiled examples of alcohol brand promotion.

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