Issue Four - Cover Artist
LANGO
(photo: Barrett Moore, barrettmoorephotography.com)
At a Bagel Shop in San Francisco, Lango sits down with his favorite Bagel Server...
Bagel Girl: You come here everyday and order a peanut butter and tuna sandwich, why?
Lango: What! HAHA I could never eat that!!!!
BG: My co worker thinks you look like Baby Dracula, do you sleep in a coffin? If the answer is yes, do you have back problems?
L: What, I’ve never slept in a coffin... yeah I used to sleep in a coffin but I take Glucosamine now and wear socks.
BG: What Salon do you get your hair done at? Who’s your stylist?
L: Dona Zilda, between the beach and the swamp.
BG: Is there a lot of envy in the graffiti world over your hair?
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LANGO Tattoo
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Skull & Sword
Yutaro - Henry - Lango - Grime
(Grime)
Grime has the disposition of a veteran warrior. Since he was a child, scars have covered nearly half of his body from a fire. Also known as The Grim, Grime moved to California in 1996 to work at New Skool Tattoo in San Jose, home to legendary tattoo artist Paco Excel. Where he gained notoriety and by befriending BLES in San Francisco, Grime was inducted into the legendary AWR graffiti crew. Grime had been attracted to graffiti for so long that years later when returning to his hometown in Colorado, he stumbled across a old tag dated 84’. Grime describes his graffiti and tattoo lettering style as "Very California." It’s a mix of script and old English.
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(Henry Lewis)
Henry Lewis is son of passed celebrated Jazz musician Juno Lewis and sibling to 14 brothers and sisters. Henry roars, “I don’t believe in Art School, to tell you the honest truth” and “fuck the art scene” when questioned about his education and position in the art community. He tattoos during the day and paints all night with little sleep and contributes his latest artwork to influences like Max Ernst, while researching in the catacombs of the local library.
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Skull & Sword
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C Plus' Green Rush
 By Jonathan Reyes
So what do you think of the term "weed rapper"?
"I hate that term. I hate it. That's the worst term ever," declares C Plus. The reaction might come as a surprise to those who have followed the Sacramento native through his career. In addition to dropping "Captain Kirk" and "Kush Rolled up", two of his more well known songs celebrating the chronic, the 23-year old is approaching his one year mark in the marijuana industry as an employee at South Sac Wellness, a medical marijuana dispensary.
"I've definitely taken conscious strides in my career and overall presentation to tie in the weed, because it is part of my character,” clarifies Plus. “But at the same time, I find myself downplaying it a lot because I don't want people to get the misconception that it's all what I'm about."
In the digital era where artists pigeonhole themselves into neat, marketable, labels, C Plus distinguishes himself by acknowledging the bigger picture. ”I mean, I’m about the fly clothes, girls, cars, weed, and all that rapper shit. But at the same time, that stuff has its place.”
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thirdletta
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Steep Hill Helps
Medical Cannabis Climb
 By Nick A. Jameson
If you’re a medical marijuana user, expect to see a lot of certified silver and black stickers in your future. You already know that it’s absurd that some government-sponsored institutions and their biased ‘studies’ have concluded that cannabis lacks medicinal qualities, but you’re not sure if what you’re smoking, or ingesting, is the perfect product for what ails you. Knowing that it’s free of dangerous pesticides, mold spores and other potential microbiological contaminants, and that it contains an identifiable level of THC, CBD and CBN, cannabis’s primary pharmacological ingredients, would be nice as well, especially since it’s more than THC that produces the medicinal effects of the plant. Enter the future of the medical marijuana industry: Steep Hill Lab and their SafeCannabis Certification Program. Other than the pharmaceutical companies that want to protect their ridiculous profit margins and absurd shares of the medicinal market by maintaining the exclusive right to sell their more expensive, more dangerous chemically-based answers to some of marijuana’s much more natural solutions to many of the same ailments, and the drug lords that profit off of a similar game of economic exploitation of the consumer, the movement launched by Steep Hill will help everyone. By educating every side of the industry, from the grower to the medical cannabis distributor to the consumer of medicinal marijuana products, the company is essentially saying: since the government is too timid or fearful to regulate this industry for the protection of the people like they’re supposed to with all medical products, we’ll do it for them! As long-time insiders of the medical marijuana community, Steep Hill is the real deal – the original innovators of medicinal marijuana testing and quality-control.
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Steep Hill Lab
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