Meet Glad Munkey, A Dominican Duo Impacting Hashish Tradition

Supply: Keenan “HIGz” Higgins / REACH Media

From plant crushers to vapers, safe to eat queens to, neatly, the whole thing infused in-between, the arena at-large has shifted its view on hashish tradition in a considerable means. The day that Nas as soon as imagined on his 1996 banger “If I Dominated The Global” of “smoking weed on the street with out police officers harassing” has since grow to be a real fact all the way through a lot of The usa; New York Town specifically is in the course of a weed revolution.

One staff that is aware of it from both sides of town is burgeoning hashish way of life logo Glad Munkey, co-operated through industry companions and Uptown natives Ramon Reyes and Vladimir Bautista.

Having already advised their tale as a dynamic Dominican duo within the weed trade to the likes of Forbes, Black Undertaking and NYC’s PIX11 (see beneath) over time, we idea it’d be a great option to shut out Hispanic Heritage Month this 12 months through tagging at the side of the fellas for an afternoon to get a greater working out of the way bud is booming within the Giant Apple.

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For Ramon and Vlad, as other folks name him for brief, the adventure has been one stuffed with each its highs and lows — and no, we’re now not speaking strand efficiency. They’re very acquainted with the pains and tribulations of rising up within the hoods of New York Town all through days when a dime bag of marijuana may just rather well result in central bookings; for each males, it did on many events.

That’s why being on the helm of a logo that’s serving to not to best exchange the narrative however train as neatly, even serving to to decriminalize hashish altogether, places Glad Munkey at a different position in time as they rebrand, regroup and revitalize their crew. “Naturally, we come from an area that stretches from the west aspect of Harlem the entire means as much as Dyckman [Street] — it’s very Dominican,” Ramon says, in-between informal tokes in fact, as he describes the theme in the back of a logo photoshoot to debut their up to date emblem. “That is the place we grew up at, and those are the enduring spots of our Uptown. Our entire perspective, swag and the best way we talk on the whole all comes from right here, rising up beneath the OGs at L. a. Marina and taking the 1 educate to move hang around on rooftops.”

Vlad echoes the emotions of his spouse in grind, himself mentioning, “My message is all the time easy: I come from the ground of financial society, and if I will do it, you’ll too. That’s so robust to me as a result of once we don’t see ourselves represented at top ranges of any trade, it’s exhausting for other folks to assume they may be able to do it themselves. The purpose is all the time for us to achieve success, however we need to encourage others as neatly.”

Supply: Keenan “HIGz” Higgins / REACH Media 

Take a better glance beneath at our Hispanic Heritage Month-inspired excursion of Uptown NYC with Glad Munkey, and be informed extra about their hashish empire through clicking right here: