I remember being in 9th grade in 2009 telling my guidance counselor and principal, that I wanted to grow weed and build it into a brand that would be across the world . Got told it wasn’t realistic and that it would never happen . A couple years went by and I’ve witnessed bern build cookies into what it is today. The motivation is real .
Bro!! I had a senior project !! Same thing except I wanted to design my own logo and start a clothing. Brand!! Was told the same thing !! By a BOARD!! Of “uppity ass rich folk from my town!! “ said it was unrealistic and to big! Of a project!! Such bull####” coulda blown up at 17!!
At 14 year old, told a guidance counselor (government employee), they want to sell weed (federally illegal), and is surprised they got told it wouldn’t work Cmon dawg
@@RS-ge2qj federally illegal or not , my point was I had the foresight too see where the cannabis market is going and is going still . Yes even though still it is federally illegal to this day doesn’t mean you can’t be supportive of your students dreams and goals. As an educator you should be able to properly educate your students . Because there are many different careers paths in the cannabis industry. So for a guidance counselor to speak on something he or she has no knowledge of and then discredit you and your knowledge of it and tell you it’s not realistic , that is the problem . Because let me explain something at the time oaksterdam university was a real thing (still is today, and also other actual universities have classes about cannabis), Californias med market was booming , jobs were being created . So does that sound unrealistic? Because people were doing it . And let’s be clear teachers and school administrators are not federal employees they are state employees . Two totally different things . So once again another uneducated person telling me I’m wrong 😂
I realized the weed game isn't what I thought it was. Only a very few Make it. Shout out to berner. Much respect for getting rich off a plant. That's insane 🙏🏻🫡
@@Imaionclarke oh yeah he sure hasn't ever sold a pack bro trust me he's never made a sale before. He's never been a cocaine dealer before either before rap. Yeah bro totally 👌🏻
Miss the og cookie strains from Berner in the streets before cookies came about there was the blue cookies orange cookies the sherberts and gelato 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Burner you should do a song with That Mexican OT.... That would be a dope collaboration and kinda out the box but that Mexican Texas/California plug talk would be nice
@@franciscodominguezcorona3956 lol bro it was 2012 I lived in the bay then 😂😂 simple google will show you he’s talking about the 28 grams tour with wiz and school boy q which was in 2012 😂😭 you weren’t there I was
NO he didnt and he really OWE everything to Sherbinski.. But you casuals will never really look into the real story.. Social Media allow people to paint whatever story they want to. People so dumb they dont know how to really research.. So we are where we are at today. Which is crazy with all the info and timestamps available due to the nature of the internet.
I hope he ask about how he and Dolph linked up and how that project was. Honestly berner doing that album was what put me on to Dolph and he became my favorite artists.
@@roberthorseback4814 lmao forum was the worst and most circulated and the reasons people dislike cookies. it has a negative vibe to the high. OGKB is the best, Animal a close second, then Thin Mints in 3rd and Forum sitting in dead last.
@@vucci8378 you're slow, Forum was the most widely circulated but wasn't even one of the original cuts, it's a bag seed. You're talking like Koma's early days is "back in the day" he's barely been around a decade, you must be another one of these "25 yr old OG's in the game" lmfao.
I agree that the price is too much for those but think of all the people who have taken clothes they have designed or ideas they came up with and tried to put those ideas on the market for a low price and they all get looked over, barely get support and it's pretty pathetic because they go buy something expensive and complain while ignoring a lot of low price local started brands and creations. I think bern should drop the prices as well, especially being he is clearly in the door for having a reputation, he can only make it better by bringing things down in price for all of his fans and people who could be fans in the future. Hopefully he figures something out, I could understand he is in a bad economy at the moment as well.
I swear only people who grew up in Cali smoking fire smoke for taste I remember years ago my uncle said that same thing I’m a kush guy so that’s all I used to grow cause that had the best taste it had nothing to do with the name or how high it got you it was always about how good it tasted that’s what gets smokes first always
I’m probably the small minority but I HATE Runtz I strongly dislike the “flavors” that it offers not my cup of tea per say but for some reason the actual cookies itself does it for me or other crosses of cookies
Yup I think it was the 2050 tour berner and wiz came to San jo califas to the SJSU theater I was pissed Berner only performed like 15 min that’s who we paid to see he came out in a red niner jersey then later it was the wiz under the influence tour at the shoreline amphitheater
Why what’s so weird about it to you?? What you don’t think there’s people out there pumping out thousands of pounds a week of the same strain 😅😂?? Like really think about it a little bit harder
@@ToastnednRoasted No, lol. “Back then” they’re talking sometime in the 2010’s. That’s when everyone called different strains the same name when they weren’t the same strains. Especially someone like wiz, he was definitely not smoking the same strain every time. His tolerance would build up too quick. You have to switch strains and terp profiles to avoid that
You are not really a critical thinker are you. If he knows the grower or is growing it himself why wouldn’t he make sure his biggest client/ opportunity to elevate has the exact product that he likes. How do you think dispensaries around the country get their products 😂😂
Runtz flower product is superior then any of cookies company wants to dictate who's product can be in dispos with them Tedz buds way better quality backpack,superdope the list goes on cookies has become the Ross quality 🌳
Cookies was fire a decade ago now it's greenhouse dry trash. Cookies has hit their peak....the only thing left is for him to sell the whole brand. I feel like his brand is whats holding alot of chokhold on the industry
did you listen to that, it's his plan. he's building it as big as he can off the backs of everyone else and when things hit federal legalization he'll cash out to some monsanto level, evil shit. Probably sell out to Blackrock.
Berner needs to either sell the brand or re-name it. It’s definitely hit its peak and I see no more growth coming from his stores. Too expensive and too over hyped for the dry outdoor grow it is.
Cookies hit they peak and once it becomes federally legal and the little guy your friend who enjoys to grow are gunna be the ones you buy from... it's better that way... like wouldn't you rather have you and your buddies pool together and go a nice amount for eachother it's better idk it's just dispensaries and like cookies are looking at the brands not the weed and people who actually love weed don't look for brands other then brands not to buy whish is all of them lol
@@2300adotno don't fall for this idiots thinking. Berner definitely makes money off the weed but it's a business and he needs to keep things on the hush and not let the whole public know about his personal business
The marijuana industry isn’t good you’ll never have the real GSC and OG Kush! The KK isn’t good and I smoked better weed back in the 90s! We need the marijuana back from the 90s that was the real OG and GSC!
![Runtz founder Yung LB talks Jacka, brand building & more [Heavy Smoke S1:E1]](/img/n.gif)
Around 15 minutes this man says what everyone needs to hear. BRANDING!
Dont let that go over your head yall! NEW ARTIST!!
I remember being in 9th grade in 2009 telling my guidance counselor and principal, that I wanted to grow weed and build it into a brand that would be across the world . Got told it wasn’t realistic and that it would never happen . A couple years went by and I’ve witnessed bern build cookies into what it is today. The motivation is real .
Bro!! I had a senior project !! Same thing except I wanted to design my own logo and start a clothing. Brand!! Was told the same thing !! By a BOARD!! Of “uppity ass rich folk from my town!! “ said it was unrealistic and to big! Of a project!! Such bull####” coulda blown up at 17!!
Actions speak louder than words
At 14 year old, told a guidance counselor (government employee), they want to sell weed (federally illegal), and is surprised they got told it wouldn’t work
Cmon dawg
@@RS-ge2qj federally illegal or not , my point was I had the foresight too see where the cannabis market is going and is going still . Yes even though still it is federally illegal to this day doesn’t mean you can’t be supportive of your students dreams and goals. As an educator you should be able to properly educate your students . Because there are many different careers paths in the cannabis industry. So for a guidance counselor to speak on something he or she has no knowledge of and then discredit you and your knowledge of it and tell you it’s not realistic , that is the problem . Because let me explain something at the time oaksterdam university was a real thing (still is today, and also other actual universities have classes about cannabis), Californias med market was booming , jobs were being created . So does that sound unrealistic? Because people were doing it . And let’s be clear teachers and school administrators are not federal employees they are state employees . Two totally different things . So once again another uneducated person telling me I’m wrong 😂
Try competing with him...
Fire interview 💯
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I see a lot of peace in bros eyes , forever a 🐐 of the community
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What community?
Lol. U followers are loosers...😂
I realized the weed game isn't what I thought it was. Only a very few Make it. Shout out to berner. Much respect for getting rich off a plant. That's insane 🙏🏻🫡
He clearly said he makes zero dollars off weed $0.00
@@Imaionclarke oh yeah he sure hasn't ever sold a pack bro trust me he's never made a sale before. He's never been a cocaine dealer before either before rap. Yeah bro totally 👌🏻
Facts bro it’s not for everyone
Black markets matter 😎
good job keeping the questions rolling. new sub
Great interview questions
Can’t wait for that show to drop with that jacka song that finna go so hard !!!
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The culture & industry is different in the Northern California region IYKYK 🏆
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Miss the og cookie strains from Berner in the streets before cookies came about there was the blue cookies orange cookies the sherberts and gelato 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I just had orange cookies two weeks ago. It still exists👍🏾
Can’t forget the thin mint and original forum cookies. Gelato #33 , tangle, the gg4 days
@@DJXcalibur it do I just moved out of California so I quit smoking weed, it’s hella trash out here
@@vucci8378 yawp
Zkittles and Snowman was good
Edit: cherry pie went hard also
The goat 🐐☘️💪🏼🍪⚡️✨
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💯💯💯💯
Burner you should do a song with That Mexican OT.... That would be a dope collaboration and kinda out the box but that Mexican Texas/California plug talk would be nice
Berner and that Mexican ot would be a great collaboration
Mexican ot sucks 😂
They’ve been in studio already just haven’t released
He's telling the truth. When I tried to get the first cookie sweater 100$ and a shirt 80$ crazy lol back in 2009 I was in high school lol no money
Wasn’t out in 2009 that’s how the real ogs who got them in 2012 know you lying 😂😂😂
burgundy and gold was the first one he dropped with the tongue c 👅 kies
Lol if you got the very first shirts on the tag it says freshly baked in SF and it says the Year
@@franciscodominguezcorona3956 lol bro it was 2012 I lived in the bay then 😂😂 simple google will show you he’s talking about the 28 grams tour with wiz and school boy q which was in 2012 😂😭 you weren’t there I was
Wow didn't know cookies was out back then 😢
Berners album gotti is a classsic !!!!!!
So true
Daaaam I need to get to it
Same!
Love Berner
The Godfather of the bags 🔥🔥🔥🔥
He’s real as hell
Berner really built his hustles from the ground up.
NO he didnt and he really OWE everything to Sherbinski.. But you casuals will never really look into the real story.. Social Media allow people to paint whatever story they want to. People so dumb they dont know how to really research.. So we are where we are at today. Which is crazy with all the info and timestamps available due to the nature of the internet.
100%
I hope he ask about how he and Dolph linked up and how that project was. Honestly berner doing that album was what put me on to Dolph and he became my favorite artists.
Most likely empire n gazi
@@kalb.3002yeah I figured but still like to hear about the album making process.
They link bout weed for sure
Bern really from the Bay like a legit hustler Fr Fr 💯 that other dude from runtz is from lbc but tryna bite off from the game
Goat
Nice
I’m seeing a pattern with cookies starting to remind me of a Rap label CEO business practices.
Crazy that Dolph went just a year after the Die Young remix. RIP to them both
IRONY SENT ME ..I SUBBED UP 🤜🏻⛈️🤛🏻🙏🏻🍀💯
REAL GSC super fucking fire 🔥
Not like it was when it first came out. Forum cut was the best but gone now. This was before tissue culture.
@@roberthorseback4814 lmao forum was the worst and most circulated and the reasons people dislike cookies. it has a negative vibe to the high. OGKB is the best, Animal a close second, then Thin Mints in 3rd and Forum sitting in dead last.
@@roberthorseback4814 and forum is still all over. 99.9% of anyone growing "GSC" is growing forum.
@@Spacecadet690forum was the original bro back when komathegrower grew slymee
@@vucci8378 you're slow, Forum was the most widely circulated but wasn't even one of the original cuts, it's a bag seed. You're talking like Koma's early days is "back in the day" he's barely been around a decade, you must be another one of these "25 yr old OG's in the game" lmfao.
2024 THANKSGIVING PARADE BOUTTA BE DIFFERENT !!!
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Berner you doing a Whittington brothers show?
Anyone know the name of that song at the end
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Lord Rab - Savage (Feat. Chapp & Playboy Ya’) [Special Version]
Mob in peace jacka !
Song Artist/Title: Lord Rab - (Feat. Chapp & Playboy Ya’) [Special Version]
All the brands and water down paks the eco flower game no reason to have flower tiers when it was always gas ⛽ before mids were even relevant😂😂😂
😂$100 tees nd hoodies?
Sorry bro props to him for getting idiots to pay for that!🤣🤣🤣
I agree that the price is too much for those but think of all the people who have taken clothes they have designed or ideas they came up with and tried to put those ideas on the market for a low price and they all get looked over, barely get support and it's pretty pathetic because they go buy something expensive and complain while ignoring a lot of low price local started brands and creations. I think bern should drop the prices as well, especially being he is clearly in the door for having a reputation, he can only make it better by bringing things down in price for all of his fans and people who could be fans in the future. Hopefully he figures something out, I could understand he is in a bad economy at the moment as well.
Thank you Berner415 for the tips
You’re looking at a true winner kids. Berner is legit.
Berner a real boss
No hate but you should take the microwave out the back it would look more professional all love fam
Berner be doing dirty business, he got law suits with Seed Junky Genetics, Runtz, and Jungle Boys. 😂😂😂😂
Facts everyone ain't crying wolf on him
all business gets dirty at the top. shit is cutthroat
He still cool with all them boys tho u sound crazy and dumb
Respectfully, who’s paying 220 for a burner performance???
Not trying to be funny I. Wanna know the same thing
Wats the intro song
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Lord Rab - Savage (Feat. Chapp & Playboy Ya’) [Special Version]
I swear only people who grew up in Cali smoking fire smoke for taste I remember years ago my uncle said that same thing I’m a kush guy so that’s all I used to grow cause that had the best taste it had nothing to do with the name or how high it got you it was always about how good it tasted that’s what gets smokes first always
Ok Bernie!! Rip jack
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I’m probably the small minority but I HATE Runtz I strongly dislike the “flavors” that it offers not my cup of tea per say but for some reason the actual cookies itself does it for me or other crosses of cookies
Greed will always seperate the passionate from the scandalous.
Yup I think it was the 2050 tour berner and wiz came to San jo califas to the SJSU theater I was pissed Berner only performed like 15 min that’s who we paid to see he came out in a red niner jersey then later it was the wiz under the influence tour at the shoreline amphitheater
Berner been my Favorite rapper since 09. nowa days his music can be watered down but back when he was hungry, he was spittin some good raps .
bruh lol, berner may be talented at a lot of things, but rap is def not any of his talents.
@nickmckenzie9686 thats cool , you have your opinion and i have mine✌️
Salute 🫡
Bro mad he cant cultivate Runtz strains, but everyone cam sell cookie strains 😅
He was the first. He really said that smh
I know, right? 🤦♂️
Dropping gems ain't no more money in weed fr it's about brands🤫😉
Berner been a boss
Berner runnin with the culture and ppl hate it
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you misspelled the word ruining. lmao
@Spacecadet690 you actually misspelled it. He left out one letter at the end while you spelled a whole different word clown 🤡 🤣
That Khalifa Kush story is weird to me. Ain’t no way he was giving him the exact same strain every time calling it KK and it just stuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 wtf
Why what’s so weird about it to you?? What you don’t think there’s people out there pumping out thousands of pounds a week of the same strain 😅😂?? Like really think about it a little bit harder
That's how it was back then u get the same strain for like months
@@ToastnednRoasted No, lol. “Back then” they’re talking sometime in the 2010’s. That’s when everyone called different strains the same name when they weren’t the same strains. Especially someone like wiz, he was definitely not smoking the same strain every time. His tolerance would build up too quick. You have to switch strains and terp profiles to avoid that
You are not really a critical thinker are you. If he knows the grower or is growing it himself why wouldn’t he make sure his biggest client/ opportunity to elevate has the exact product that he likes. How do you think dispensaries around the country get their products 😂😂
any brand berner partners with that threatens cookies top dolllar he will shelve look at mints and exotics smh
BIG CAP mah boy SERGE did alot too for this dude NO CAP
Bring receipts or don’t say it homie
Serge aint shit in da bay bra
Ask him about his love one in that black caddilac escalade
protect uncle bern at all cost
Talk yo shit BERNER
Runtz was GAS ⛽ 4 YEARS AGO
STILL IS WHAT I SMOKE
Man I need a team like Berner… Runtz couldn’t do this, they don’t know the long game !!
Runtz blows cookies away fact
We really going to cut connected out Gilbert? 🤦♂️
Grants coming I heard 📲
Found my lifetime strain
Berner music suck but his weed is fire 🔥 😂
Naw his music is raw stop hating. U never took a trip with work before, he helps u get through
Runtz flower product is superior then any of cookies company wants to dictate who's product can be in dispos with them Tedz buds way better quality backpack,superdope the list goes on cookies has become the Ross quality 🌳
Returns taking 4-6 yrs with cookies right now, not good. Better get in with the small guys or mso companies in high states with oligarchy
El chivo✔
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Cookies was fire a decade ago now it's greenhouse dry trash. Cookies has hit their peak....the only thing left is for him to sell the whole brand. I feel like his brand is whats holding alot of chokhold on the industry
did you listen to that, it's his plan. he's building it as big as he can off the backs of everyone else and when things hit federal legalization he'll cash out to some monsanto level, evil shit. Probably sell out to Blackrock.
Yeah by 2018 I didn’t want any cookies. Gelato/runtz took over
They have to have something in the mix to follow up…. Surely theres a massive pheno hunt in the works???
Overpriced
@@mumblz408 i paid $20 for an eigth in 04’ and its about $35 now with hyper inflation that doesnt sound like a price gouge…
Berner has clout for days
Did a battle of the breeders with other top breeders,,cookies won, cookie seed bank!
Money man is the godfather of gunthusiast rap tho
Cookies is just name brand designer average good bud nowadays. I’ll take top shelf for 1/2 the price all day.
Runts shits on cookies tho
Berner needs to either sell the brand or re-name it. It’s definitely hit its peak and I see no more growth coming from his stores. Too expensive and too over hyped for the dry outdoor grow it is.
Runtz
Cookies hit they peak and once it becomes federally legal and the little guy your friend who enjoys to grow are gunna be the ones you buy from... it's better that way... like wouldn't you rather have you and your buddies pool together and go a nice amount for eachother it's better idk it's just dispensaries and like cookies are looking at the brands not the weed and people who actually love weed don't look for brands other then brands not to buy whish is all of them lol
Lmao Berber mad he really doesn’t own cookies really cartel does he’s just the face of cookies
Dam fr?
@@2300adotno don't fall for this idiots thinking. Berner definitely makes money off the weed but it's a business and he needs to keep things on the hush and not let the whole public know about his personal business
@@2300adotlmaooo cappppp
Naw naw you go have to explain how you make 0 now because right now that sound like bs
Reinvesting
@choltog2881 Bingo he said it from his own two lips in this interview, that's his plan.
THIS GUY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT WEED EXCEPT SMOKIN IT 🤣😂😂😂😂😂
😆 he was not the first to put a logo on weed...... I don't remember you at any shows....
Why no mention of B-REAL, he carried you for a while...
The weed blew cookies up in the streets bro not the music. He blew up in the streets first
Money man is the Godfather of marijuana music. He talks about every step, from the seed to the shipping to the trap houses across America
Snoop first one talking about weed on record
@@beachcity562the wars on weed is war on music they tried to stop jazz bars
💯 money man motivated me to fly out and find a real plug, berner never did that!!
@StingraySativaCo neither one of did for me
@@beachcity562 snoop never sold packs. He just rapped. Snoop is just a studio gangster and that’s perfectly okay
I think mac miller was there
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Jorge Cervantes would disagree with most of this bs. He wrote the book on gangha. Berner just a face.
Northern Lights
Green truck
Cookies all day
No way in the world he not getting any bread off cookies
marin county
Wont be right by the jacka
Sell weed
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Damn,niggaz hate on berner hella hard. Lmao hatin on someone you dont know..he aint even sayin negative shit but everyone kbows the bizzness .
They both cost too much money 🤑
Stop hating on Bern!
To: the world
MIP Jacka..
The marijuana industry isn’t good you’ll never have the real GSC and OG Kush! The KK isn’t good and I smoked better weed back in the 90s! We need the marijuana back from the 90s that was the real OG and GSC!