"The weed scene in New York, for me, is me in my bedroom not wearing pants." “Can I smoke weed right now?” Perched on a comfy couch in an apartment in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Nora Lum, a.k.a. Awkwafina, sparks up a joint of Tangerine Haze and settles back contentedly.
Lum’s been having a good year. When we meet up with her on a sunny afternoon in June, she’s appearing onscreen in theaters across the country in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and her video for “Green Tea,” a wry collaboration with Margaret Cho, has just dropped, racking up 100,000-plus views almost overnight. Cho heralds Awkwafina as “the future” in the vid, which is a raucous, hilarious sendup of Asian stereotypes—and also features plenty of weed smoking.
“That piece that I have…