106 & Spark is a brand new 20-minute countdown leisure discuss present that covers the various aspects of music with superstar interviews, protection of popular culture traits, hashish training, leisure tid-bits, and widespread Black tradition. The present not too long ago launched completely on ALTRD.TV, streaming into households all over the place.
It’s government produced by Grammy Award-nominated hip-hop artist Problem, aka Jason L. Martin, and hosted by social media persona Tammy “The Cannabis Cutie” Pettigrew and rising artist Spoon, aka Sean Chris Spooner.
106 & Spark places a contemporary spin on the countdown format, and its debut season contains a broad mixture of superstar appearances, shock studio visits, and countdowns, usually tailor-made for the hashish area.
“I need to deal with what’s subsequent and what’s now,” Downside advised Excessive Instances. “Will probably be a possibility to know what’s scorching, and we are able to inform them what’s scorching. We study issues on a regular basis. These are usually not scripted; These are usually not something we’re studying from. Simply laborious information. We’ve Spoon placing on the fly shit and letting everybody know. And never only for individuals who have interaction in hashish all day.”
The present hosts aren’t limiting themselves to massive names solely in each music and hashish. “I need to actually broaden the horizon of what the world of hashish is,” Downside added. “I feel that there’s so many misconceptions about stoners.”
Downside appeared on 106 & Park a number of instances, which helped him study the enterprise of the trade, studying about slots and promoting prices. It ended up being an important studying expertise for the rapper.
He desires to incorporate artists who’re difficult the norm as a substitute of mindlessly churning out mediocre materials. “Identical to how utilizing hashish and rising hashish is beginning to be—for lack of higher phrases—gentrified,” Downside stated. “It’s beginning to turn out to be an enormous, massive enterprise. And it’s sort of like the identical factor that occurred to hip-hop. I’m attempting to get management of it early, and never permitting the brand new corporates to inform us what it’s. We’re simply going to seize the mic now and inform y’all what’s cool and what’s not—what to do and what to not do.”
Downside stated that MTV was the primary playlist, and that’s near the magic he hopes the present will deliver. “I feel the truth that now we are able to simply watch what we would like and take heed to one thing we would like—it loses worth,” he stated. “I feel persons are truly getting bored with that.”
He defined that it’s one factor to need entry to all the pieces at your fingertips, however that ultimately dilutes the integrity of music.
“That’s an enormous level of the present,” Downside stated. “We need to have music. I need to have all of the dope issues that I had on 106 & Park. You already know what I’m saying? We used to get up within the morning and go see what’s going to be on the Prime 10 this morning. What does Bow Wow have happening? What [are] Free and A.J. gonna have on? What company are going to return on? … It’s the identical format.”
Coffee & Kush is coming, Downside stated, and it’ll cowl each side of hashish—from music to reveals and opening up consumption lounges, however revolve round music.
106 & Spark Co-Hosts Chime In
Pettigrew immerses herself within the artwork of debunking myths about hashish and creating change. In 2020, she based Hashish Cutie Schooling to offer accessible, participating hashish training on-line.
As co-host of 106 & Spark, she explores the aspects of the hashish trade, massive and small. Viewers can stream the present at ALTRD.TV.com, as all six episodes can be found on that platform. Discover it on AppleTV, Roku, Samsung, Google Play, PlexTV, and extra.
“We undoubtedly contact on many matters as to what’s occurring with the weed trade,” Pettigrew advised Excessive Instances. “However [this] 12 months, we’re retaining it hashish, training, music, leisure, however you additionally should be cognizant that there’s a complete tradition and subset of individuals on this area who’re negatively impacted by hashish.”
Pettigrew stated that they may contact on the hashish trade, however with a deal with leisure “We contact on how there’s lots of people sitting in jail for hashish costs whereas persons are profiting off this trade,” she stated. “We undoubtedly deliver consideration to components which can be occurring within the trade.”
“Espresso & Kush is a life-style,” Spoon, who hails from North Carolina, advised Excessive Instances. “To the touch on what Downside stated, it stems from the music, and we began creating it just a few years again. After which, we truly acquired to go on tour in Europe, and go to the coffeehouses in Amsterdam. From there, he was like, ‘That is what we’d like in America.’ So, the imaginative and prescient was born from there. We’re constructing that now.”
Spoon is now an element proprietor and president of the Espresso & Kush model, and he’s additionally engaged on his first studio rap album—with a little bit of help from Downside.
The present featured the recurring “Music Video of the Week” phase, showcasing movies together with Downside’s hit track “4 The Low” with Wiz Khalifa, to Kaytranada’s newest single “Look Straightforward” with Fortunate Daye.
Every episode additionally features a weekly “Prime 5” countdown sequence the place Tammy and Sean countdown the perfect of hashish tradition, which incorporates exploring strains, merchandise, and types.
“That provides us the prospect to place the highlight on artists and music movies that perhaps lots of people haven’t seen,” Spoon stated. “Movies that we discover to be actually dope. Not the everyday stuff that’s performed on the radio day-after-day. That provides us an opportunity to point out the viewers a distinct aspect of the artwork.”
“You additionally want to observe it excessive,” Downside added.