I actually received this package a couple of weeks ago (word to Jon Murray) and hadn’t posted it because I couldn’t figure out HOW to do it. As far as marketing materials are concerned, Charlotte based rapper Stranger Day and his Permanent Vacation team knocked this bad boy out of the park.

This package was given to certain media outlets and other friends associated with the Stranger Day movement and, in my opinion, it properly represents everything that he’s about. As you’ll see the contents are simple and to the point: Open box, listen to the music, fly to another planet (I’ll describe what I mean later).

My dilemma in creating this article had more to do with WHAT I should write about versus a simple “does this need to get posted” question. I decided to just show the individual assets then do a follow up post in a couple weeks.

Why a follow up post you ask? Keep reading and you’ll soon find out.

The gift came in a plain and unmarked cardboard box. The packaging was simple and expertly designed to come off as unassuming. Similar to the rapper that is Stranger Day.

And I don’t mean that in a bad way, I’m just saying–if you saw him in the streets and didn’t already know who he was, there is no way on God’s green Earth that you’d think that he’s the rappin’ ass, partying animal delivering the heat via this “Bar Stool Bounce” EP.

When I opened the top, I was greeted by a Stranger Day sticker (which is already on a STOP sign somewhere in Charleston, South Carolina) and a physical copy of the EP. And then things got real…

The pièce de résistance was the Mason Jar with customized Stranger Day applications. The glass jar was filled with a highly potent adult beverage known around these parts as White Lightening. MOONSHINE that is…

Of course I had to take multiple shots pictures. Traditionally created in copper pot stills, this stuff can grow hair on your chest. You’ve been warned. Drink this stuff with reckless abandon and you’ll be visiting another world real soon–Planet “OMG! How could you let me drink this much MOONSHINE!?! I feel like someone is participating in a homerun derby on the inside of my body!”

With that being said, this jar has been sitting in my fridge since I got it. I respect MOONSHINE enough to write it’s name in capital letters at all times and scared enough to not to have sipped any of it–yet. I’ve decided to go the fruit infusion route however, I just haven’t figured out WHICH fruit I’m going to use. Any suggestions?

Whenever I find a fruit and make my high powered concoction, I’ll do a follow up post. Thanks again to Stranger Day, Jon Murray, and the insightful person that invented Mason Jars! By the way, if you haven’t already DOWNLOAD the Stranger Day EP, “Bar Stool Bounce“, today whydontcha!?!