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Seattle artist/producer/visionary Tay Sean on mushroom microdoses and his anticipated solo d
Tay Sean turned up recently in Capitol Hill — just a few blocks away from the former home of Pine Street’s Capitol Club, once home to a weekly Monday kickback called Jet Set. If you want to get historical about it, it was the unofficial hub of Seattle’s then-emerging next generation of hip-hop (dubbed the “third wave” of local rap by the Stranger’s Charles Mudede). >>>
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Tay Sean turned up recently in Capitol Hill — just a few blocks away from the former home of Pine Street’s Capitol Club, once home to a weekly kickback called Jet Set. If you want to get historical about it, it was the unofficial hub of Seattle’s then-emerging next generation of hip-hop (dubbed the “third wave” of local rap by the Stranger’s Charles Mudede). On any given week you could find members and supporters of almost every active hip-hop group or act under one roof, and Tay was right in the thick of it — rapping and producing in collaborative fashion with his Cloud Nice collective and his group Helladope. “It kinda had a different energy back then. It was still the MySpace era,” he said on the topic. Looking back on it now, his Beacon Hill studio that was home base for “The Cloud” was like a mid-’00s Seattle version of the Atlanta basement studio that brought the world Organized Noize and the Dungeon Family about a decade or so before. But instead of Andres, Big Bois, Outkasts, Sleepy Browns, Cee-Los, and Goodie Mobs — we got Nacho Picassos, Jarv Dees, BAYBs, Helladopes, and even THEESatisfactions. His last release was Kingdom Crumbs’ increasinglylegendary 2012 self-titled release, which featured him contributing raps, vocals, and a bulk of the production alongside longtime friends and music partners Jarv Dee, Mikey Nice and Jerm. Tay says this period was the beginning of what would become his debut solo release “Leavings.” “I’ve always made cuts just to make cuts, but I’d always leave em kinda open-ended with the idea that maybe it could be a Kingdom Crumbs song,” Tay recalls. “Even if it’s my song, I was really trying to focus on the group.” “Leavings” dropped in September on Homeskillet Records (the label started by Alaska Native/ Seattle-based musician and visual artist Nick Galanin), and is currently streaming on all major platforms with vinyl copies available on his website taysean.com. It’s a proper cosmic DMT trip that starts with “Australopithecus” (the first hominids to show presence of a gene that caused increased length and ability of neurons in the brain) and ends with “Zoroastrian Bridge” (the sifting bridge that separates the worlds of the living and dead according to one of the world’s oldest religions). It draws as much from free jazz experimentalism as hip-hop, and features dynamic song structures and vamping, wailing leads that sound like distorted guitar solos but is actually Tay playing the
Top to Bottom: Tay Sean in the crowd at a Jarv Dee performance at Capitol Club in 2010. Browsing at BAIT on Pike St. Mala prayer bead necklace handmade by Nick Galanin for the special edition vinyl release.
keyboard. The sonic exploration, along with his pitched-up but confidently laid-back vocal delivery, brings a certain Shabazz Palaces to mind. But across all 12 tracks it’s all Tay Sean, with only one track featuring vocals from JusMoni. “I’m more of a solo artist, and you can probably tell,” Tay says. Between drags of the Girl Scout Cookies, he explains how herb effects his creative process. “I wouldn’t say it’s better or worse... just like, different when you’re smoking. I can get hyperfocused on certain things. Sometimes it’s really good for mixing. Sometimes it’s really bad for mixing,” he says with a laugh. “But I like to smoke a little, be by myself for a few hours and just work on stuff. It’s just cool... Meditative.”
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Graffiti legend and entrepreneur Claw Money is your favorite weed smoker’s favorite weed smoker
Earlier this year Claw Money — writer, designer and overall exciter — proclaimed herself the female Snoop Dogg in an inter view with High Times Magazine. After years upon years of getting up globally with a spray can, and establishing an iconic claw logo that is as omnipresent as the golden arches in red and yellow (there’s even an emoji now that bares resemblance), it was just another claim to fame. >>>
“Who is it if not me?” Claw, born Claudia Gold, asks rhetorically. She produced the special edition packaging for her own Grenco Science GPen collab, sold shirts that say “High Fashion” with an illustrated set of hands rolling a joint with gold jewelry, press-on nails and a phone number written on the wrist. Now she’s launching a webisode series on YouTube called “Trailblazzzers” that shop talks marijuana casually amongst her creative circle of friends. “I’ve smoked weed in front of this wall, on Ludlow Street, everyday for the last year and a half. No problems. But I’m still looking both ways,” Claw says bluntly in her quick-witted style. “The first episode of Trailblazzzers I rolled one on the street with my girl, smoked it, had a roach left and I turn to see a badge in my face. They were doing the Delancy end-of-the-month junkie sweep, and I start in with the ‘I’m a mom, my girl brought me this from California, this is my store let me show you my ID, you’re not gonna write me a $100 ticket…’ So they want to know if I’ve ever been arrested, and whenever I got got for graffiti I’d say my name was Claudia Silver, Claudia Cohen — all the jewish names. Now I’m married and have my husband’s last name and they’re like okay cool, you’ve never been arrested.” Standing in front of a mural of her own creation, around the corner from a shop that is staffed, stocked and nothing to play with — not some half-assed eCommerce pop-up, were talking full product skus released each season from accessories to handembellished vintage items — it’s clear that she knows how to think on her feet. “They only other time I’ve been hassled was when I was giving my girl a shotgun, on the street, and they pulled up with guns drawn,” Claw recalls thinking back. “That time I said ‘this is my art show, they never let women do art,’ etc… and I got off on that one too. I’ll turn on the charm, to stay out of jail.” Other than the occasional vice citation, Claw is all the way legit. Starbucks commissions her to do murals on the side of Manhattan stores, and before the paint is even dry she’s doing a “Jordan Cry Face” mural for Fuck Jerry on a roll down gate. Her store is a treasure trove of realness going as far back as the infamous GFS Phillies Blunt bicycle shirts, a late 90s early streetwear sensation by the trinity of GERB, FUTURA and STASH that was blatantly bootlegged up and down Canal Street.
She also designs heavily patched vintage items with weed emblems when not doing full capsules for FILA. Whether paying client or creative collaboration, getting high helps Claw build her supply. “It helps me tune all the garbage out and hyper focus,” Claw explains. On this particular afternoon conversation volleys like a Williams sister on grass: Why is Supreme doing parties in Coney Island? What do you do with Pokemon once you catch them? How does one live without Pamplemousse La Croix seltzers? “Your morals don’t change on weed. Alcohol makes you do things you would never fuckin’ do,” Claw proclaims between sips of her beloved La Croix. “No husband beating ever on weed. It’s more like mind altering, ‘oh I never noticed that, that’s so cool.’ I’d buy weed from the guys with the weight, I’d buy a Z and they would always ask if anyone followed me. When I started dating my husband, who is a real Bronx Boy, he was young and we’d didn’t have money so we bought dubs from little kids in his neighborhood. Because when I’d buy ounces it’d be smoked in a day.” >>>
Paranoia has lessened as decriminalization makes New York more livable for the toking types. Gradually the weed is getting better and cheaper, high end $100 grams are now replaced by chubby $40 eighths. “The price has gone down, and there’s way more strains,” Claw shares comfortably. “It used to be just Diesel, here you go that’s all you get. Some purple haze too. Delivery service is still how most people get it. I used to deal a little weed.The vandal squad came to my house at three in the morning, in 1995 and the first thing they see was the Triple Beam Balance with a nug of weed that looked like a drumstick. they were just like: ‘Fuck, we don’t give a shit about that.’” Her roommate was in much deeper shit so once again Claw evades the authorities, a habit she can’t help but be proud of. As she straightens things up for her next appointment she wants to give Seattle a shoutout that we can’t help but be proud of… “Just so Seattle knows, BTM is killing the game in the weed world,” Claw clamors in congratulatory fashion. “Kill-in-it! They are the boss of all bosses.”
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Bellevue’s elite recreational retailer is serving the community as well as they stock their shelves
Bellevue has always been Seattle’s more suburban, more expensive neighbor across the lake, and it seems natural to assume their rec shops would follow suit. But right on Main Street just blocks from Bellevue Square — Green Theory is keeping it customer-focused and keeping the spirit of MMJ alive with their selection, service and values. Green Theor y was Bellevue’s first 502licensed retailer in business, so they were able to set up shop on prime real estate minutes from I-90. In such a high-traffic area we were expecting a turnstile system, but instead were greeted by an open floor plan, plenty of selection to look at, and knowledgeable budtenders who answered all our questions and provided one-on-one service from start to finish. “A lot of high-volume stores set you in a line,” General Manager Tera Martin, an Eastside native and WSU alum herself, said. “I get it, but we see anywhere from 400-700 people a day and we pull it off.” Martin stresses that Green Theory prides itself on three pillars: “Elite brands, elite savings, and elite service.” While the last one was on display upon entrance, a quick look around the shelf space and display cases proved the first was also true. They had ample options from vape car tridges to edibles to oils, and huge selections of flower from Artizen, Washington Bud Co. and Gabriel Gardens, as well as r ec o gn i za bl e n a m e s f r o m t h e m e d ic a l realm like Solstice and Aurum Farms.
These details that have made Green Theory the people’s choice in Bellevue have deep roots in both the owner and staff’s history with medical cannabis. Maritn says that her interest in MMJ was sparked when she moved back from Los Angeles after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She started working with a c o l l e c t i v e g a r d e n a n d d i s p e n s a r y, a n d eventually got hired on at Evergreen Herbal — the edible company behind 420 bars and Cannabis Quenchers — that was actually started in LA when the founder was exploring alternative treatments for his own mother’s battle with breast cancer. But then things took an unexpected turn when Martin, then age 28, found out she also had breast cancer. “I actually got the news the day I started training with Evergreen Herbal,” she said. “It was pretty weird.” This barely slowed her down, as she still worked with Evergreen Herbal while going through treatment, supplementing it with 1g of Rick Simpson Oil everyday for five months and eventually overcoming her condition. She even started her own nonprofit called the Pink Gene Foundation, which promoted breast cancer awareness for women ages 18-35, during her treatment process (Green Theory still par ticipates in quar terly community outreach programs, and are keeping this spirit alive year-round). 502 licenses were being issued right when Martin was finishing up her treatment, and everything started falling into place from there. She was originally brought onto Green Theory as a project manager and buyer, and hired a carefully-selected team of staff that she says are almost all still working at the shop two years later — a fact that helps account for the laid-back, collective-like vibe of the shop. She says they have plans to expand (their next location in Factoria is in the works, and should be open by the fall/winter), but that maintaining their current level of quality and consistency is the key to their success. “Not to sound too PC, but we firmly believe that education is the root of progressing this industry and the image of this industry and the plant itself,” Assistant Manager Rachel Emadi added. “As a retailer we want our employees to know their shit, because at the end of the day the customers are the ones taking this product home, who trying it out, and we want to be able to guide them into a good, safe direction.” Words by Mike Ramos
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