Snoop Dogg recently sat down with Benny The Butcher and revealed how he helped cultivate weed culture in New York in the pre-legalization era.
On Tuesday (February 20), the Griselda rapper appeared in a new episode of Snoop’s GGN YouTube series to discuss several topics, including Benny’s new weed strain “The Butcher’s Breath.” While recalling a previous trip to New York when Benny supplied him with some of the strain, Snoop began breaking down how he helped influence the cultivation and consumption of chronic for his East Coast peers in the before times.
“You know what’s crazy,” Snoop started off. “How, and I’mma be honest, hey guys I’m just telling the truth, New York used to be known for trash used to be known for straight trash. No this is no joke you can ask the rappers n###a they used to have seeds and all kind of s##t in they s##t they could be rolling up a blunt putting seeds and sticks you be like what the f##k is you doing?”
Snoop continued, “S##t they didn’t know no better until n###a start catching that flight, f###ing with the real n###as out here [West Coast] cuz we f##k with y’all and n###a show the n###as what that s##t was and n###as saind, ‘Well we can’t get it there, how about we just get it there,’ you dig—and the connection was connected and there you have it weed stories one-on-one.”
Snoop went on to explain how he put rap crews such as Wu-Tang Clan, Roc-A-Fella Records and rappers such as Onyx and more before the major recreational marijuana push in the 2010s’.
Check out the full interview below—the clip begins around two-and-a-half minutes into the video.