Sugar drink or high-sugar drink may refer to any beverage consisting primarily of water and sugar (often as cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup), including some soft drinks, fruit juices, and energy drinks.

Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D (born November 20, 1965), is a founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Mike D raps, sings, and plays drums alongside fellow members MCA, Ad-Rock and Mix Master Mike.

Mike D was born in New York City. Mike was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish household. He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York for six months.

In 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. In 1981, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, a friend and follower of the band became their bass player, and from the suggestion of their then-guitar player, John Berry, the band changed their name to the Beastie Boys. By 1983, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) joined to form the lasting Beastie Boys trio, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip-hop. In 1992, Mike D founded the Beastie Boys' now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records.

In 1993, Mike married film, television and music video director Tamra Davis. They have two boys, Skyler and Davis. He has two brothers, Stephen and David.

Mario Caldato, Jr. (also known as Mario C.) is a Brazilian record producer and studio engineer best known for his work with the Beastie Boys and Tone Loc. Born February 24, 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil, he and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1963. Caldato played keyboards and percussion in various bands ("Soul Stick", "Wake", "Phaze" and "Phaze II"), and started a PA and DJ rental company with Mike Nishita, brother of his old friend "Money" Mark Nishita. After building several of his own studios and visiting Jamaica, he produced The Jungle Bugs then later meet Matt Dike and engineered and helped co-produce Tone Loc and Young MC first album's then soon afterward engineered the Beastie Boys second album Paul's Boutique then co-produced Check your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty. Since then, he has engineered, produced and or mixed many various artists inculding Beck, Day One, Super Furry Animals and three Money Mark albums, Molotov's "Apocalypshit" and two Jack Johnson albums On & On, and In Between Dreams. He has also produced many Brazilian artists, including Planet Hemp, Marcelo D2, Seu Jorge, Bebel Gilberto, Marisa Monte, Vanessa da Mata, Nação Zumbi and Mallu Magalhães. In 2008, he mixed the self-titled debut EP of One Day as a Lion, a project comprising Zack de la Rocha (of Rage Against the Machine) and Jon Theodore (previously of The Mars Volta). He also mixed during 2008 the debut album of Banda de Turistas titled "Magico Corazon Radiofonico", one of the new revelations of the Latin scene. Recently, Caldato produced the Flobots album Survival Story, which was released in March 2010. and has also mixed and co-produced the Seu Jorge and Almaz self-titled album which was released by Now-Again Records in July 2010. Caldato has also organised, recorded and produced a charitable album with Anglo-Brazilian collaboratory supergroup, The Bottletop Band.