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It\u2019s gone from a viral joke he popularized on the YouTube show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-oCNXMsMvg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sidetalk NYC<\/a>, to a <a href=\"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/news\/bing-bong-tiktok-trend-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok trend<\/a> that reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/jonas-brothers-joe-biden-white-house-joe-byron-tiktok-video-1235012411\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the White House<\/a> and infiltrated the global meme lexicon. Now, Gorilla Nems is using his national platform to launch his very own line of legal cannabis flower.<\/p>\n<p>Riding \u201cBing Bong\u2019s\u201d viral high has turned Nems from the self-proclaimed president of Coney Island to one of America\u2019s pandemic-era sweethearts. Last year, New York Knicks basketball fans adopted Bing Bong as a rallying cry at games and on social media. It wasn\u2019t long before the team\u2019s players and corporate office <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1451715509767098368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adopted the phrase<\/a>. Then in November, Nems brilliantly remixed his wild and aggressive \u201cBing Bong\u201d song into a slightly friendlier <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yl0req33JbY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knicks-themed anthem<\/a> for the 2021-2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll dump your life savings into a f*cking Dutch,\u201d brags Nems on his original \u201cBing Bong\u201d track, honoring the influence Dutch Masters cigars have had on his city\u2019s consumption methods through the years. <\/p>\n<p>He no longer consumes cannabis regularly, but Nems remains deeply plugged into NYC\u2019s streets. Plugged in enough to know that a Bing Bong-themed line of weed products is a no-brainer with the Empire State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/learn\/legalization\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legal weed market<\/a> rolling out soon. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Nems shows new Bing Bong strain for Leafly (Leafly \/ Jon Bain)\" class=\"wp-image-194579 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-1.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>Nems\u2019 Bing Bong weed is arriving just in time for New York\u2019s legal market rollout. (Leafly \/ Jon Bain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We tapped in with Coney Island\u2019s reigning king to hear about his new products, talk about his very first hit from the bong, and to hear him explain why the man he affectionately calls <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/joe-byron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Byron<\/a> needs to federally legalize trees on the double with cheese.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<h2>Nems\u2019 first time smoking weed with a homemade bong<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cMy first time smoking weed, man, I was 11 years old. And this older kid from my neighborhood, I seen him walking the dog. He was smoking weed, passed it like, \u2018(You) smoke?.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Yeah!\u2019 I smoked, went home, and passed out until my moms came home.<\/p>\n<p>Then I just started smoking weed all the time. The first time (by myself), I wasn\u2019t able to roll. So I made a bong out of a two-liter Pepsi bottle. Stab it a little, put the pen cap in it, put the tin foil on the top, put some holes in it. Bing Bong!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/learn\/consume\/smoke\/what-is-gravity-bong\" class=\"wp-block-leafly-blocks-leafly-single-inline-block leafly-inline-related-story\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"border border-deep-green-alt border-l-0 border-r-0 my-xl p-md font-bold\">\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p>What is a gravity bong and how do you make one?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<h2>The old school NYC weed scene and the OGs who made it cool to chief<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere were three types of weed (back then). There was whatever the dude had at the time, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/strains\/chocolate-thai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chocolate (Thai)<\/a>, and there was some sh*t called The Mozz (pronounced like Motts apple sauce, short for mozzarella). I was in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge (and) they was like, \u2018Yo, this is the Mozz!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You go to the weed spots in Bed-Stuy, East New York, they had the Chocolate (Thai) and then they just had regular weed. Whatever the f*ck they was smoking (had) wild stems and seeds back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t even smell seeds no more in weed. Actually, I did the other day. My man rolled the blunt, I was like, \u2018You got a seed in that weed? What the fuck is you smoking, bro?\u2019 I haven\u2019t smoked a seed in 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for some of the people he thought were cool back in the day, Nems says, \u201cDefinitely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/lifestyle\/history-cypress-hill-new-anti-prohibition-album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cypress Hill<\/a>. There were others. I mean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/lifestyle\/redman-discovers-20-year-old-stash-of-branson-weed-a-throwback-to-90s-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Redman<\/a>, Method Man\u2013But really Cypress Hill was talking that, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_BtHxTZrqpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201c<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_BtHxTZrqpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>I want to get highhh<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_BtHxTZrqpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201c<\/a><\/em>. Like that was one of the first albums I had, you know what I\u2019m saying? They always was talking that weed shit. That shit was fire, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/lifestyle\/song-lyrics-about-funky-weed\" class=\"wp-block-leafly-blocks-leafly-single-inline-block leafly-inline-related-story\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"border border-deep-green-alt border-l-0 border-r-0 my-xl p-md font-bold\">\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p>The 23 dankest lyrics about loud weed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<h2>Why <span><a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/joe-byron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Byron<\/a><\/span> should legalize cannabis and free all non-violent offenders<\/h2>\n<p>\u201c(Weed) ain\u2019t no crime, man. I spent at least five nights outta my life arrested (for cannabis). It did nothing, but give me a criminal record at a young age. <\/p>\n<p>From the ages of 16 to about 24, 25, I spent at least five nights of my life overnight (in jail) because of weed. Like, I remember they arrested four of us for a clip this big [hold fingers within inches of each other] in the astray of a whip. Like at 16 years old, bro, they gave me a criminal record from 16 on. <\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s starting off your adult life with a criminal record, man. That was ridiculous. All for them to get dismissed and everything. Because it\u2019s just weed. Nobody cares about (it). But they need to legalize it.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" alt=\"police-marijuana-arrest\" class=\"wp-image-136022 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-2.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><figcaption>Police have used cannabis prohibition as a pretext to hassle and arrest Black people, and other people of color, for decades. Police agencies not only enforce these unjust laws, they help create them, protect them, and increase the human suffering that flows from them. (AdobeStock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we (should) change classifying lower-income areas and poor neighborhoods (as drug zones). They wasn\u2019t going to the white areas, too. They were like, oh your father\u2019s a CA, let them go. But if it would be in the hood, they arresting mad people overnight for weed to fill they quota. <\/p>\n<p>So I feel like if they made it legal, it would (give) a lot of more people opportunities in life to do better.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>When you go into the criminal system at 16 years old, man, it forces you to become somebody that you don\u2019t want to be. Or somebody that you might not even know (is) in you. You might go in there and crack somebody\u2019s head. Now you locked up for a whole \u2018nother charge. You know what I\u2019m saying? Because of weed. <\/p>\n<p><cite>Gorilla Nems<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>On taking a tolerance break from cannabis<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been writing raps since I\u2019m 15. I stopped smoking at 26. So that whole period, I was high all the time. <\/p>\n<p>There was certain (strains) that I would smoke that would make me better at freestyling and just more calm and relaxed. And my bars would be better. So different occasions would call for different stuff. But, all in all, if I just compare the times that I was smoking to the times I\u2019m not, my sober mind, my bars have been way better. <\/p>\n<p>And I had to get more comfortable with myself in the beginning. \u2018Cause I thought I would just not be creative if I didn\u2019t smoke weed. But it turned out the total opposite. Like I really just got more focused. And that\u2019s me personally. Some people it\u2019s the opposite. But for me personally, I feel like my bars and my grind and everything just got better when I was sober. But I definitely was smoking, man. Mad amounts of my songs are under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>Signing off, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nems_fyl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gorilla Nems<\/a>, live from Coney Island. And you\u2019re rocking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leafly<\/a>. Roll that, light that, smoke that, stupid! Bong!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>If you want to know more about Nems\u2019 Bing Bong weed early, come to his show on Sunday February 20 at Brooklyn\u2019s Knitting Factory and ask him about a pack yourself. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knittingfactory.com\/event\/tw-eventinfo\/NEMS+featuring+RIM+%26+EDDIE+KANE+ATM+%26+SIX+THE+DON+%2B+Special+Guest\/11698985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for tickets. You can also visit Nems\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/fyl.nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FYL.NYC<\/a> for merch and stay tuned to Leafly for the latest on when and where to find Bing Bong packs in NYC. <\/p>\n<p>Save the flyer and date below for access to his next NYC show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"821\" height=\"1024\" alt class=\"wp-image-194589 has-ll lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=550 550w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=740 740w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story-3.jpg,compress&amp;w=1480 1480w\"><\/figure>\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\/bing-bong-sensation-nems-shows-off-new-strain-and-tells-homemade-bong-story.jpg\" alt=\"Leafly Staff's Bio Image\" class=\"lazyload inline-block mr-md rounded-full border border-light-grey\"> <\/p>\n<p>Leafly Staff<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-sm\">Leafly is the world\u2019s largest cannabis information resource, empowering people in legal cannabis markets to learn about the right products for their lifestyle and wellness needs. 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