Jacob Redmond
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Cypress Hill's B Real (whose real name is Louis Freese) has fame and money, but he still needed a lot of luck for his next business venture outside of music: a medical marijuana dispensary in Southern California's Orange County.
The musician-actor-TV entrepreneur was one of six out of 630 applicants to win the right to open a dispensary in the O.C. It comes at a perfect time as he focuses on his Dr. Greenthumb world. The rapper recently took third prize for Best Sativa Flower in the Cannabis Cup in San Bernardino, Calif., and will be releasing The Prescription, a Dr. Greenthumb mixtape, featuring longtime friend Snoop Dogg, A$AP Ferg, AB-Soul and many more this week.
Billboard sat down with the Cypress veteran in his downtown L.A. studio to talk about his colliding passions of weed and music, what will make his dispensary different from others and hear stories on the greatest smokers he knows.
Take us back to last week when you won the lottery for one of the dispensaries.
We were actually there when the ball was pulled and we were definitely excited. Out of 630 applicants to be in the top six of the first pull was very exciting for us. So we were extremely happy and optimistic towards how this is gonna all play out.
Talk about how the music and business will merge with the Greenthumb location.
We're in a unique position because we have a lot of history behind us as it relates to music and the pro-legalization movement. I think it goes hand in hand, so for us to have a collective I definitely want it to be eye candy, eye-popping, eye-catching, an experience. We want it to be a place where you can come get quality meds responsibly and all that stuff, but we want it to be an experience as well.
Would you ever perform there?
If we could lay it out properly to where the city is okay with that, sure. Or if there's enough room within the complex that we're operating out of, yeah. That's not something that would be foreign to us because we have the ability to put that on. We have the experience and we have the right people in place to make that happen.
What would be in your fantasy dispensary to create the experience you are describing?
That's hard because everybody is an individualist. There are groups of like-minded people that want to do the same shit when they're high. With me I'm so always caught up in thought, so it's a hard thing. You don't want it to seem theme-parkish on one end, but you want it to be an experience. What that is, it will have something to do with music. I think mini concerts in there would be good, have some artists that are legalization-friendly, like for instance Snoop Dogg, 2 Chainz, Kottonmouth Kings or Red and Method come to the spot and do a performance. Maybe there's a day where there's a celebrity budtender giving out buds. Those are just some ideas. But being that we have so much experience in the entertainment world the sky is the limit on what we can do with that.
News Moderator: Jacob Redmond 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Cypress Hill's B Real Talks Opening His Medical-Marijuana Dispensary | Billboard
Author: Steve Baltin
Contact: Billboard.com Feedback
Photo Credit: B-real.tv
Website: Billboard - Music Charts, Music News, Artist Photo Gallery & Free Video
The musician-actor-TV entrepreneur was one of six out of 630 applicants to win the right to open a dispensary in the O.C. It comes at a perfect time as he focuses on his Dr. Greenthumb world. The rapper recently took third prize for Best Sativa Flower in the Cannabis Cup in San Bernardino, Calif., and will be releasing The Prescription, a Dr. Greenthumb mixtape, featuring longtime friend Snoop Dogg, A$AP Ferg, AB-Soul and many more this week.
Billboard sat down with the Cypress veteran in his downtown L.A. studio to talk about his colliding passions of weed and music, what will make his dispensary different from others and hear stories on the greatest smokers he knows.
Take us back to last week when you won the lottery for one of the dispensaries.
We were actually there when the ball was pulled and we were definitely excited. Out of 630 applicants to be in the top six of the first pull was very exciting for us. So we were extremely happy and optimistic towards how this is gonna all play out.
Talk about how the music and business will merge with the Greenthumb location.
We're in a unique position because we have a lot of history behind us as it relates to music and the pro-legalization movement. I think it goes hand in hand, so for us to have a collective I definitely want it to be eye candy, eye-popping, eye-catching, an experience. We want it to be a place where you can come get quality meds responsibly and all that stuff, but we want it to be an experience as well.
Would you ever perform there?
If we could lay it out properly to where the city is okay with that, sure. Or if there's enough room within the complex that we're operating out of, yeah. That's not something that would be foreign to us because we have the ability to put that on. We have the experience and we have the right people in place to make that happen.
What would be in your fantasy dispensary to create the experience you are describing?
That's hard because everybody is an individualist. There are groups of like-minded people that want to do the same shit when they're high. With me I'm so always caught up in thought, so it's a hard thing. You don't want it to seem theme-parkish on one end, but you want it to be an experience. What that is, it will have something to do with music. I think mini concerts in there would be good, have some artists that are legalization-friendly, like for instance Snoop Dogg, 2 Chainz, Kottonmouth Kings or Red and Method come to the spot and do a performance. Maybe there's a day where there's a celebrity budtender giving out buds. Those are just some ideas. But being that we have so much experience in the entertainment world the sky is the limit on what we can do with that.
News Moderator: Jacob Redmond 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Cypress Hill's B Real Talks Opening His Medical-Marijuana Dispensary | Billboard
Author: Steve Baltin
Contact: Billboard.com Feedback
Photo Credit: B-real.tv
Website: Billboard - Music Charts, Music News, Artist Photo Gallery & Free Video
