The head of Buddha throws vibrations at New Housing Works in Nomad
He converted a cannabis conviction into a legal pharmacy. Now he serves tourists on the way to the Empire State Building. As well as.
In his music video “99 Problems”, which was awarded Grammy, Jay-Z Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, shows the neighborhood that raised him. If you look closely, you may take a look at Vaughn Jefferson (better known as Buddha boss), who throws blows into the basketball scene of the music video.
Like Jay-Z, Jefferson is a native Bedstuy bridge music and shop in New Heights. Jefferson is the stock partner in Housing Works' new nomad pharmacy location, which was opened in the past few weeks in 2024. Cannabis had always been part of Jefferson's life, but only recently was the opportunity to bridge the legacy too legally.
In his words, Jefferson grew up at the climax of the Crack epidemic. Bed-Stuy was a lively community full of creative people (Big Daddy Kane grew up in his block), but she was scattered against drugs in the war. He was raised by his mother and grandmother (the original Buddha boss). He began to smoke in fifth grade (“too young”, he says), but he quickly recognized his potential for musical inspiration and monetary profit and not for a personal pastime.
“Why am I doing this if I could just sell it to you? I have family, I have friends, I had classmates who all smoke. So my attitude was: “I'll do that.” And from there I brought it to the moon. “
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He seriously made himself with the sale of weeds at the high school high school and quickly gained a call for his care with chocolate tthai, which was nearby in the 90s in Flatbush. He was nimble and practical, but NYPD still managed to arrest him a few times.
Jefferson's mother, a prison officer, gave him an ultimatum and agreed to go to the community college – but it was more of a business opportunity than pedagogical persecution. Or maybe it was both. Jefferson visited the upstate at Morrisville College, where he found a healthy demand for his product among students. Here he also found the connection to use his other lifelong passion, music.
Around the same time when he discovered cannabis as a child, Jefferson began to visit a music studio on his block that Mary J Blige, Biggie and Method was recorded. It was life -changing.
“I actually frozen and said:” It will never happen to me again. “And I started taking seriously as an art form (music).”
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He had a friend who had a friend and another, the murals painted for the team of the lyrical lounge, a pillar of the New York hip shop in the 90s. Then he got spots in music videos while still picking up. In Morrisville, in the early 2000s, he met the multitalized international P, who headed a recording studio when they returned to NYC. This became an recording home for Jefferson, and when the idea for Fight Club, a rap battle show that would be broadcast on MTV2 asked that International P Jefferson asked to lead the show.
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Music was one of many outlets for Jefferson's mission by Bed-Stuy Championing. Through Fight Club he learned video production and transformed them into his own documentary series about mental health, self -care and the journey to his namesake, internal healing and peace.
“I see that many people in my community and my culture have to do with trauma that arise from the Crack epidemic. These documents (the healing rater) should draw attention to us, but they make them instructive and entertaining. I use as an example of what it looks like to heal. I still make my personal growth. “
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When the whispering of legalization in New York City began, Jefferson took measures. He began to network with other Legacy players like Happy Munkey and to take part in industry events such as the Revel Fairs. The process was rough, but the decision to work with housing work was easy. Your values for supporting the community were fully aligned. “The work that you have already done in the non -profit sector with the used goods shops and the struggle for AIDS and homelessness – only reminded me of what I try in my community and with my own non -profit company.”
The Nomad location serves a new community (only blocks from the Empire State Building!) With the same care that cited the original livingworks in 2022. Great products, informed service and an obligation to improve the legacy of cannabis. Buy some of the bestsellers in the state like Rove, thanks. By definition, Edie Parker and Ayrloom as well as Housing Works Merch.
Things often look cyclical in Jefferson's life. His unique appearance in Jay-Z's music video became a job at the Shawn Carter Foundation years later. Many years after the sale of weeds in Morrisville, it was the place of announcement for its Cayurdish license. His childhood house is now his headquarters for non-dispensary efforts. All the threads that he had woven in the legacy room between cannabis, music, humans and community braided together.
“The irony of it is crazy, the circle. I just have the feeling that it is a spiritual, divine connection, to legacy, ”he says. But in a way it makes sense. All streets finally lead to Rome or at least to Nomad.
“None of them existed separately, right? They all inform and mix together. A fusion of many lanes and worlds from which I come and simply bring them to a head because I am who I am. “
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