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You&#8217;re not old enough to use Leafly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"hidden age-gate__loading\">Redirecting you to<span class=\"redirect-domain\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-xs mt-auto\">By accessing this site, you accept<br \/>\nthe <a class=\"py-xl\" data-testid=\"tou-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/info\/terms-of-use\">Terms of Use<\/a><br \/>\nand <a class=\"py-xl\" data-testid=\"pp-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/info\/privacy-policy\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container my-xl\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col md:col-9\" id=\"article-content\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Legendary artist and fashion trailblazer Lil\u2019 Kim gave Leafly a special Valentine\u2019s Day scoop on her designer line of strains, Aphrodisiak. The highly-anticipated brand will be available to California shoppers in April, with plans to expand in markets like Michigan, New Jersey, and Kim\u2019s native New York shortly after. <\/p>\n<p>All of the brand\u2019s products have been hand-selected and developed over two years with Kim\u2019s input to ensure they inspire the same raw passion and stimulation fans have come to expect over her 25-plus years of stardom. \u201cI test my product. I tested this and I was like \u2018Oh yeah, this is that gas,&#8217;\u201d Kim said last year when the brand was announced. Her and her team remain hands on with the day-to-day development of the line of products, placing quality control above all.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in April, the first place to get your hands on Kim\u2019s buds will be California\u2019s newly-opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/dispensary-info\/pineapple-express-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pineapple Express Hollywood<\/a> dispensary. The dispensary is owned by Kim\u2019s fellow music-slash-marijuana vet 2 Chainz. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a new dispensary and it has all the flare to it being in Hollywood,\u201d explains Kim\u2019s Aphrodisiak partner Carlos Dew, of superbad inc. \u201cWe wanted to do something that reflected her being an icon, (so) Hollywood is the perfect place to launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim and her partners, superbad inc. and CampNova, first announced the Aphrodisiak brand in October 2021. Since then, the power-trio has been hard at work on the compliance and delivery side of the business as they prepare their official rollout ahead of our favorite April holiday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-solid-color\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe best is yet to come. You can\u2019t rush perfection. My team and I are working day in and day out for my release in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <strong>Lil Kim on her designer cannabis brand Aphrodisiak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt class=\"wp-image-193760 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains.webp,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains.webp,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains.webp,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains.webp,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>Lil\u2019 Kim sparked the libido of an entire generation with the 1996 promo poster for her debut album <em>Hardcore<\/em>. Now, she\u2019s releasing a line of legal cannabis products that are intended to have the same arousing effects on adults in legal states. (via Grailed \/ original album photography by Michael Lavine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-kim-was-an-early-pioneer-of-designer-dank\">Kim was an early pioneer of designer dank<\/h2>\n<p>In her lyrics, Kim has bragged, \u201cMy girls rock Chanel and smoke mad marijuana,\u201d and told lovers, \u201cRoll some weed\u2026 and close your eyes, then imagine your tongue in between my thighs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those and other raw rhymes about Mary Jane opened audiences up to the luxurious and lusty elements of the plant, back when pop culture was still sending <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/clueless-alicia-silverstone-doobie-laced-stoned-gif-3553927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mixed messages<\/a> about how, when, and where women should smoke cannabis. <\/p>\n<p>In defiance of the stigma, she proudly paired her love for dank with her designer fashion sense long before billion-dollar designer strains were a thing. Along the way, Kim blazed a trail for all women who consume, simply by being a Bad Bee who tokes unapologetically. Now, she\u2019s positioning herself to reap the rewards of her decades of influence with a line exotics that pair perfectly with her erotic rhymes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamn ma\u2019, I love you like the la, the ganja,\u201d rapped Kim\u2019s late mentor and frequent collaborator The Notorious B.I.G. on their 1996 collaboration \u201cDrugs.\u201d On the 1996 track \u201cTime To Shine,\u201d Kim let listeners and potential suitors know that roses aren\u2019t the only flowers that will win her affection. <em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/18763883\/Lil-kim-time-to-shine\/Trees-i-like-em-fine-straight-up-marijuin\">Trees I like \u2019em fine, straight up marijuan\u2019<\/a><em>,\u201d <\/em>rapped Kim from the backseat of a luxury car, wrapped in designer<em> <\/em>fur and leather in the song\u2019s music video. <\/p>\n<p>Little did she realize, her 420-friendly rhymes were paving a lane for her in a multi-billion-dollar legal industry that few could have imagined at the time.<\/p>\n<h2>The powerful partnerships behind Aphrodisiak<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" alt=\"Carlos Dew, CEO and founder of superbad inc., helps celebrities like Lil' Kim make the most of their influence in the cannabis industry. (Courtesy of superbad inc.)\" class=\"wp-image-193769 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>Carlos Dew, CEO and founder of superbad inc., helps celebrities like Lil\u2019 Kim make the most of their influence in the cannabis industry. (Courtesy of superbad inc.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kim is not jumping into the complex cannabis field solo. She\u2019s entering with a crew of partners that can match her influence with the fundamentals to make Aphrodisiak into a multi-state operator (MSO).<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Dew\u2019s superbad inc. is the licensing brand poised to help Aphrodisiak jump off from coast to coast, and eventually worldwide. Dew is a budding mogul in cannabis who orchestrates deals that give celebrities and influencers their due platform and equity in a legal cannabis industry that can be quick to forget its pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>The third wing of the Aphrodisiak machine is CampNova, a celebrity cannabis lifestyle platform that also does delivery. Their reputation for enabling fruitful partnerships and lines with influencers like 2 Chainz and Tommy Chong is sign of good things to come for Kim\u2019s cannabis ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a trendsetter,\u201d says superbad\u2019s Dew of Kim. \u201cIf you look back in history, everything that she\u2019s done, she\u2019s the first one. The first bad girl of Hip Hop, which is important.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Aside from her brand recognition, Dew and partners are also excited about Kim\u2019s proven track record of moving physical units (remember CDs?) off of shelves. \u201cShe came from the era where fans were actually buying albums,\u201d Dew says. <\/p>\n<p>The hope is that her name and reputation can now drive people to purchase packages of legal trees at the same rate they buy her music. Kim\u2019s debut album is RIAA-certified double platinum (over 2 million units sold) and she has moved over 6 million albums worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s going raw. And she\u2019s gonna bring it original, you know,\u201d boasts Dew with the confidence of a prize fighter\u2019s promoter. \u201cShe\u2019s gonna make it nasty!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Kim is all about having a good time, she also values the platform that comes with being one of the first women celebrities of color with her own line of adult-use cannabis flowers. That why she and her Aphrodisiak team are ultimately focused on \u201corchestrating generational wealth\u201d with their partnership, for both themselves, and other people who look like them. <\/p>\n<p>The Aphrodisiak team is well-positioned to build such an empire if they can deliver strains, edibles, and other goodies that get our juices flowing as much as Kim\u2019s iconic looks and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Until we get our hands on those beautiful buds, all we can do is fantasize about what\u2019s to come. Kind of like the days when Kim\u2019s historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ja3Q3IvWAdY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHardcore\u201d pose<\/a> teased us from our bedroom walls and album booklets.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re as excited as us to taste these once forbidden flowers, put your lighter\u2019s up to salute The Queen Bee\u2019s coming Aphrodisiak debut.<\/p>\n<div id=\"author-box\" class=\"p-lg my-xxl bg-white rounded border border-light-grey elevation-low\">\n<div class=\"mb-lg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lil-kim-reveals-when-and-where-to-find-her-arousing-line-of-aphrodisiak-strains.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Reagans's Bio Image\" class=\"lazyload inline-block mr-md rounded-full border border-light-grey\"> <\/p>\n<p>Dan Reagans<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-sm\">Dan Reagans is a veteran journalist now living in Los Angeles. The Harlem native has covered culture and media for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"text-sm font-bold underline text-green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/author\/dan-reagans\">View Dan Reagans&#8217;s articles<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"leafly-sailthru-signup p-lg my-xl bg-white rounded elevation-low border border-light-grey\">\n<p class=\"text-xs pt-lg\">By submitting this form, you will be subscribed to news and promotional emails from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\">Leafly<\/a> and you agree to Leafly&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/company\/tos\">Terms of Service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/company\/privacy-policy\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. You can unsubscribe from Leafly email messages anytime.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- Chartbeat --> <!-- End Chartbeat -->  <!--\nPerformance optimized by W3 Total Cache. 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