What happens when those who smoke weed every day and those who grow weed every day come together? An epic partnership is forged. We’ve collaborated with Snoop Dogg’s Death Row Records and we’re ready to share the story through our interview with Death Row’s head grower – AK. Ready to step up your grow with Dogg-worthy Cali fire?
In 1991, Suge Knight, Dr. Dre, The D.O.C., and Dick Griffey made hip-hop history by founding Death Row Records – the label that brought West Coast gangsta rap to the mainstream via the works of legends like 2Pac, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg.
Despite its indisputable impact on hip-hop culture and popular music, Death Row Records’ history is also marked by internal turmoil, legal issues, and violence. In 2022, however, Snoop Dogg, one of Death Row’s foundational artists, bought the bankrupt and inactive record label with one goal: restoring it to glory.
“It looked like ‘why the f*** is he buying a bag of problems?’” Snoop told Associated Press after acquiring Death Row. “But they [Dr. Dre and fellow rappers] didn’t understand what I seen – I seen my legacy, I seen certain things that was connected to me that needed to be finished.”
For Snoop, acquiring Death Row is all about protecting his 30+ year legacy. And his plan for doing so?
“By putting some beautiful music back in Death Row, putting some happy times in Death Row, and some life rather than death.”
And given Snoop’s love for weed and the plant’s integral role in hip hop culture, it comes as little surprise that cannabis will also play a key role in Death Row’s rebirth.
Less than 12 months after acquiring Death Row Records, Snoop Dogg launched Death Row Cannabis – a line of flower, pre-rolls, and other products representative not only of The Doggfather’s uncompromising demand for quality, but also the rich historical seam between cannabis and hip-hop.
At the helm of Death Row Cannabis’ select line of strains and products is AK (we won’t expose his real name for obvious reasons) – a legacy West Coast grower with a 25+ year track record growing, breeding and, of course, smoking weed.
To break the news about our out-of-the-blue collab with Death Row, we sat down with AK to talk about his history as a grower and cannabis lover; his vibrant career in California, and his plans as Death Row’s head weed hunter.
