 This is gonna be one of those segments that's very near and dear to my heart. Oh, man. Oh, from 2K, ain't it? Uh-uh. That song from J.O.N., it might be, though. No, but it's on the 2K. Is it on 2K? 2K. 2K. A couple years back. Huh? Oh, this original. You just had, bro. You've been smoking too much of your own weed. To part some of this, it's a song that's on 2K that sounds eerily similar to this. Um, it was two years ago at 2K. I kid you not. Let's take a funny one. Who knows? I might have it 2K or something. Oh, okay. I bet. Got my shit in here today. Yeah, this shit, this is some good weed right here. Cool. Appreciate it. It better be. Yeah. I can fuck with that. Mmm. Mmm. Nice. Top shell. This ain't that bullshit right here. Prove it. Amen. I like that. I like that. I think my momma's had enough to start the show. Let's do it. You ready? I'm ready. Hey, welcome back to the 85 South Show. Black, excellent spotlight. Off the top, I gotta tell you, you got one of the coldest names, aliases in the game. Tucky Blunt. Tucky Blunt. Yeah. My last name is really Blunt. And my nickname is Tucky. Since I came up, my momma's Tucky. Wow. Digger. Welcome to the trap. Man, I'm honored to be here. Thank you for having me. And then, this is going to be a high ass episode. You had to do most of the talking because I'm over here. I have no problem. On some of this simply green. Hey, hey. You know, from a black owned dispensary. Yeah. That you own. Yes. You got your face on the wing. Tell me your story, man. How did, how did all this come about? We was never bad in my family. Like we never thought we would relate it. I don't know, but we should be. We probably are. Granny grew it. Parents sold it. Like my daddy used to sell five joints for a dollar. So like, you know, it was. I wish I knew him. Man, they loved him in high school. But a 16, I started selling weed in East Oakland, California. And I approached it as a business. I knew that if I wanted to sell weed, which I did, I couldn't be on the corner advertising it because I said, I'm going to jail. So I was like, I watched my dad and how he moved. And he taught me other things, taught me how to detail cars. I'm a master detailer, all kinds of shit. But I knew how he saw weed. And I was like, if I'm going to not go to jail, I'm not going to go to the turf, but I can do it. So I started working around the same age, 15, 16. Every job I worked at, everybody I knew there smoked weed. So I was able to make more money at work than I did at work. And I just continued on that path. And then around 19, heard about cannabis clubs. My grandmother, who grew weed, had me, I was taking on her errands, 19th and telegraph in Oakland. We pulled up, she came out with a white bag. And my granny, what's that? She said, it's weed. I said, you bought weed out of a store? She said, yeah, I said, I want one of those. And that was 99. That's my granny right here. I was like, I want one of those. Didn't think none of that shit would happen. Fast forward 2004, I have my first run in with police ever. I've been selling weed, nonstop, perfectly fine. Pull up, we smoked some of the weed that you just bought. Nice transaction. I go by my business. No police interaction. 2004, I had a son coming. I was in between jobs. And I said, oh, let me go to the turf for a little bit, make some extra money. I did that, got snitched on by one of the people I was buying weed from. Caught a case that gave me 10 years felony probation, four-way search clause. And at the time, again, first offense, and I only had at the time, thank you, I didn't have more on me, but only had $80 worth of weed on me at the time and like two dozen cookies I was just telling you about. So didn't let that stop nothing. Hold on, two years for $80 worth of weed? Yeah, two years of felony probation. They could pull me over and search anybody in the car with me and everybody, everything. House, whatever, for 10 years straight. Like I didn't really feel comfortable going around nobody or nothing. But I didn't let it stop me. The day that I got arrested was the Thursday. The following Monday I started working for Alameda County. And the day, my first day of work at lunch, I'm walking downstairs and a cop who arrested me is coming upstairs. So I'm like, bro, I told you I had a job. He just, you know, we always clicked on that. I was like, damn, all right, cool. Fast forward 2017, Mike Marshall called me and told me about the equity program. Didn't know what it was. Mike Marshall was the voice I got five on it. The actor was actually singing it. And he said, Tuck, you ever caught a case for weed in Oakland? I'm like, yeah, that's hell of a random, but why? He was like, man, they got a program called the social equity program. I know two sisters out of Atlanta, they need somebody to fit the bill to apply for the program to get the dispensary license. And I'm like, all right, whatever, what they want from me. He was like, I don't want nothing. I just want to have a sit down and see if you fit the criteria. I said, all right, fuck it. At the time, I was a master detailer for Tesla. I was training people how to detail cars for Tesla. A position I created that they found me on LinkedIn and then I went and made my position. Bro, hold up. God damn, bro, hold up. Yeah, I ain't here. I don't just sell weed. I'm selling black highlights on that. Man, straight up. I don't know nothing to do but hustle. So how did you talk them into creating this position? Because Tesla's a huge company. So they hit me on LinkedIn and the guy was just like, hey, we see you detail cars. Would you like to come train people how to detail cars at Tesla? So I hit them back thinking it was a scam. I'm like, whatever. And I just kind of ignored it for like three weeks. Do hit me back. So I'm like, you know, is this legit? What do you want me to do exactly? He was like, well, we're trying to teach people how to detail Tesla's. And we've seen your work. You know, so I was really one of the most sought-after detailers in the Bay Area for about 15 years. So I was like, all right, whatever, I went in and they was like, we don't really have a position. Can you create one? Yes. So I created, I think I was making like 85,000 a year to teach people how to detail cars. 85,000. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then while I'm doing that, it was going cool. That's what Mike called me. I went and met with the sister and her mom with my baby daughter. And we talked. They told me about the program. I was like, all right, it's cool. Oakland has a program called the social equity program. I do not want to skip over this. But it's the first city in the nation that started a program to give people who call cannabis cases and charges that ownership in the cannabis space. So that got me interested. I'm like, I've always wanted to own a store. I've worked at Hella Cannabis Clubs. I've been growing weeds since 2002. I'm selling this since 96. Like, this is what I want to do. Yeah. We submit that. You're not invested in weed. A lot. You know what I'm saying? So met them in September, 17. We turned in the application December of 17. The drawing was January 31st of 18. And the drawing was, you took a bingo ball. It was 34 bingo balls for all the people applications that met it through. You put a bingo ball in the chamber. They roll it around. If they picked your ball, you lost. If it was one of the last four balls remaining in the chamber, you wanted a dispensary license. I put our ball in third, and we were still in there as one of the remaining four. That is random as hell. Very random. It was y'all way. It was meant for me to be doing this. Yeah, but I'm like, who was the better motherfucker? Like, all right. Yeah. Let's do a bingo. We were going to do bingo balls. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't understand it either, but it made it fair. Nobody could pay that way to the front. Oh, that's amazing. You know what I'm saying? It was literally like a, it was meant for me to be doing what I'm doing. So we got the license, but that was it. They didn't give you no money. You had to go find your own money, find your own building, do all of that. And with us being black, equity qualified, most of us don't have the business savvy to know how to go and find the right people to partner with to open a dispensary. So we get fucked over a lot. Excuse my French, but it's just, it's the truth. You know what I mean? So luckily for me and my previous partner, we had some business savvy. I've run successful businesses on my own. You know what I mean? All the stuff I work. I type 90 words a minute. I graduated high school with a 4.0. Like I'm a street nerd. You know what I mean? So, and I don't like jail. So it was like, you know what I'm saying? If I'm going to do whatever I'm doing, I got to be off the radar, because I don't like penis. So I'm not going to be nowhere. I got to look at penis all day. So that was just, you know, you know what I'm saying? That sounds like a nightmare. I'm cool. So we got the license, found a partner. They wanted ownership. Like no, we're not giving you on our ownership. We created a deal to where they were happy. We were happy. They didn't own anything. And we started pumping out and we opened our doors November 24th of 2018. Come on, man. Come on, bro. Well, that's a hell of a story, man. You had, you called the case. Now you're selling weed. And it's legit, man. It's legit. What's this? This your strand right here? That is one of them. One of them. How many you got? So I have that one now. I have another one. I'm going to do smalls. Oh, you getting exclusive. Yeah, you basically told me that this was kind of like old nigga weed. Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm tired of all the weird names. It's too extra. All the, everything is not exotic. I hate that term. No offense to none of my homeboys that still use it. But I come from an area where weed only had to be three things. Smoke good, taste good, and get you high. All this old candy land, advertising to kids and all that, and I don't do that. I just want simply good green weed. So that's where that came from. And this shit good. But it's good. It's so good I'm going to tuck this one. I don't know about it fucking good. You feel me? Man, so that should be kind of like in a nutshell. Aside from being a good daddy, a good husband, a good black man, like I want all of us to win. Bro, what's been your experience in the cannabis industry? Since you've gone legit and now you're a business owner. It's been good. They picked your bingo ball. You're winning in life. It's been good. It's been, honestly and truthfully, I can just be real. I didn't sign up for this. I didn't know that me getting dispensary, being the first ex-felon for selling weed to have dispensary anywhere in the world, I didn't sign up for that. And I didn't sign up for having to be the face of it, but it's something I have to do and I've got to show that we can succeed in this space. Your name is Tucky Blunt. Yeah, so it's kind of my destiny, I guess. I mean, they can write a script better than that. I'm trying to work on one if you know anybody. I know me. I know how to act. You know me, the story already really, so it's a nigga selling weed since he was too young to even be selling weed in a place where didn't nobody really give a fuck until one day somebody gave a fuck. He was just doing his normal shit and I don't know where he was on his last run. Last little $80. The only reason he still had it is because the nigga didn't answer the phone. Here comes the bitch-ass poll digger. Yep, that's pretty much what happened. Ten years still got to sell the weed, something kind of way for ten years, but you can't touch it. You can't keep it at home. You can't be around the wrong motherfuckers. And then you know all these people and they know you're legit and you out here still grounded. Got a job at fucking Tesla and now you got to make this decision. Do I work at Tesla or do I hit these streets with this weed legally because I haven't won this shit? That's about five episodes. Might be too big for the screen. And it's legit. It's real. We'll get one of them young niggas to play you, like Mack Wiles or somebody. Yeah. I'll win it. I'll win it. Fuck around and find one of them British niggas while being on the bridge until they get on the view and then we'll start over. You realize they have access. This is another time that I was studying in France. Oh man, damn. That's dope as fuck, man. We'll drop the info so these people can, so they can slow the green like me. Yes, we are located 701 66th Avenue in Oakland, California. Literally, direct across the street from the Oakland Coliseum. We just reopened because we had to shut down through the COVID and my shady ex-partner. But we just reopened 420. Please come through. The vibe is epic. We always have good food trucks there, DJs. And it's just an Oakland vibe. I'm on Instagram if you do that, tuckybluntazero. Blunt some more at the store. Tell me a little bit about Blunt some more. You touched on it, but you ain't touched it all the way. When Slink Johnson came there, my boy Gerald, he came in and said, this ain't owned by Negroes. Hey, when Slink, anytime Slink is mentioned, you got to say, niggas know your mama. Oh yeah, niggas know your mama. He created that in the trap. I was talking to him when I remember all that because we were texting each other. I said, you got well with that blood. That was a good one. So when he came in and I was like, bro, this ain't black on. I love that. It's kind of like a weed eye store. It's very neat. It's very clean. You're going to see a bunch of orange because orange makes people happy. That's where the colors came from. And it's black owned. And I want more Blunt some more. Everywhere they have legal cannabis, they should have an equity program. And there should be an ex-fella with a dispensary. I know because who better? Who knows more about the motherfucker who really was out there with it? That should be one of the qualifications because they don't have a family. I'm sorry. They ain't never been convicted in a weed charge. They shouldn't have really fucked with you like that. And we got people that's making the laws that have never done anything either. They still think we make niggas want to go crazy. You not going crazy? I'm chilling. Even if the option was to go crazy, I'd be like, y'all have fun with that. Go ahead, Nick. Do your thing. Go stupid. I'm chilling. I ain't even outside today. That's Blunt some more, bro. Like, for real, I'm just living my dream but I think it's other people that should have that dream that should live that too. You know what? Just by you living your dream, it's helping me live mine. Because I was like, I hope somebody bring me some weed. I couldn't come up with the handy. And I don't want to have to try to manifest these things. I'm not specific as to who. I'm not saying, hey, God, let somebody be out here taking a chance. Maybe they could just bring me just some good, simply some weed. Look at that shit. It's written. Plain is red. And then it's the old nigga flavor too. It ain't nothing hyperbole about it. There's no animation. It's just simply green. No cap. And the weed ain't green, which is beautiful. And shit is purple. And green kind of reminds me of a morning in Nashville. Very relaxing. Thank you, sir. Nice hybrid. Yes, it is. Indica heavy. Indica heavy. So this really going to be some sleepy weed. And I shouldn't smoke all of it. Because I got shit to do. I was told that you wouldn't get high. So I'm going to get you high, Craig. Well, you know what? I appreciate you stopping little here. What I appreciate you have with this delicious weed that I will not be sharing with anybody under 35. You got to be 35 enough to smoke this. That's what you should put on here. For 35 plus? Come on, man. They ain't going to appreciate it. You remember some weed that we had back in the day that's extinct now? Purple. You can't find real purple. Tell me something. Now, see, that's the reason you here right now, Tucky Blunt. I feel like you got to say the whole shit, Tucky Blunt. You ever miss the detailing game? Or you ever just get high and detail your shit? Man, so... Did you sound real successful? You got your own shoes on this shit? Browse Ross, fuck as a detailer. I'm talking about clean vents, like all the shit. I'm talking pure shit. That's what this is for. I thought we was done. I thought we were just talking. Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay. No, detailing is like second nature. My dad buffed my first car. I was eight. My daddy had a detail shot. So I learned from, like I said, he was a hustler too. My daddy worked two, three jobs. Fuckin' taught me how to detail soul hella weed, but then he started doing crack and fucked off his shit for a few years. Man's went through the same thing. We ain't shelters all the shit. Like, I done did hella shit, you know what I'm saying? Like, for me to be where I am now, it's just a testament to not giving up on shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, we just closed. My store just closed because my ex-partner stole, like $15 and stopped paying bills and left and went and opened a whole other store, dawg. I wasn't supposed to reopen. I was not supposed to reopen. Who are you going to find going to partner with you when you got 2.5 and dead? But Yahweh had a bigger plan for me. I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing this for everybody else. For my kids, kids, kids, kids. I'm trying to set them up. The stuff that I'm doing now, I'm not even going to see all the ramifications of it. I see the people that say I'm inspirational, it's going to be something my kids, kids, kids see. You feel me? So it's bigger than... This is why I come on my own dime to come network with people like this because this is what we got to do. We got to get back to working together. We got to deep program that all black people was enemies type shit. We got to pool our money together and work together. I know because I should have been buying this weed from you. We should have been pooling our money together and been getting this kind of weed. This is what I'm looking for. My legs is high. My legs is high. You know when your legs are high too. At Tucky Blunt's, man. Drop that. Drop your social one more time, man. At Tucky Blunt 8-0 At Blunt's and more with 2-0's and what's so funny, that's my partner's ex-partner's last night and she ain't got nothing to do with nothing anymore. That's fucked up, man. But look, you're going to bounce back. I'm already bounced back. I'm Gucci. No, I'm open. Fully partnership. I got my trademark for Blunt some more in 35 states so I can open up locations right now. You should be. That's why I'm here now. Atlanta Go Legal, I want to blunt some more down here. Yeah, you better call me first. I'm telling you now. This is what we're going to do. You serious? No, this is real, real, real. Do you want your lobbyist down here? I just want to invest in this brand right here. All right, say less. Say less. Say less. You got to put that bitch back, Walmart. Something about the town? Oh, man. It's the land of the side shows. You got to bring some of them old schools out there. No, they just made a law that you can't even do that shit. What? Side shows? We work on the legal side show right now. That's a whole different thing. Something about the town. Two-Shirt got his weed out of my store now so he has a line of weed that's pretty good. He got that out too short. Yeah, he got that out of the store right now. I don't know, Oakland just, I want Oakland to give back to where it used to be. It's still a beautiful place, but the evening just effery then took over. So I wanted to give back to where it was like with my vibe when I grew up. We lost, we in the same age bracket. I don't know, I just want Oakland to give back to how it used to be where everybody was family. Yeah, bad. Well, there you have it, folks. If you see this shit anywhere, get you some. Thank you. This has been a high-ass episode. My man, Tucky Blunt. Blunt some more. 85 South Show. What more could you ask for? My guy. My man's in this. This shit right here.