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His Grandfather Designed the Backwoods Logo

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0:00A: Good. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:02B: Why is this stuff important to you?

0:04A: I think it’s important. I’m a collector myself, so I collect shoes, skateboards, art in general. My whole family is artists, so the -- my whole family had art all over their house, all that type of thing. So I’ve been -- paintings, oil paintings. My grandfather was the guy who designed the Backwoods, front of Backwoods and Dutch Masters. That’s why when he passed away, they changed those things to Reason is because they didn’t want to pay us anymore. Yeah. But that’s another thing, like, my grandfather didn’t have the internet to share his name, so I like to shout that out because he was my bloodline and that’s what I was made to do. So like, I want to restart that because my dad went to help people and he didn’t really do the art side, but that’s his own talent.

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