Hi, everybody. It's Bean, and welcome to an all-new episode of great moments in weed history. I am

incredibly excited to share this weed's high history lesson with you, because we are going to get

properly lit and have a seriously old-school sesh with one of the original emcees from the very, very earliest era of hip-hop music.

That's right.

We're going all the way back in the day to the 1970s when hip-hop was still an underground phenomenon

that was popping up at parties and in parks all over New York City, specifically

in the borough that became known as the Boogie Down Bronx.

And that is where our guest for this episode is from.

Best known by his stage name, Busy Bee, he is also called the Chief rocker, and that is a moniker he earned by being

the ultimate master of ceremonies. That's what MC means at what we're originally called jams.

Now, those were parties where the first DJs were pioneering the art of mixing records live on stage, two turntables.

That is where breakdancing crews were battling for supremacy, where graffiti writers were gathering

to share the secrets of their illicit art scene, and a place, of course, where weed smoke

was always hanging thick in the air because this was a very, very

weedy scene, as Busy B. will tell us and he is the man to know because Bizzy B. was truly among the

first ever emcees to rap original rhymes over the music spun by a DJ.

He would build up this wild party vibe, get everybody in the place on the same elevated level,

and that, in essence, paved the way for every rapper to follow.

This is a true innovator, and his innovations were truly fueled by the creativity of cannabis

as you are about to hear.

In fact, let's get a little bit of that party vibe going right now.

Here is a clip from the 1983 independent film

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