on december 22, 2018, rapper famous dex uploaded a video post to his instagram page in which he made racially-charged jokes at the expense of an elderly indian american hindu cashier at a convenience store in los angeles he was frequenting with a friend. during the video, he remarks “witcho’ lil’... ,” referring to the man’s tilaka on his forehead, following a brief exchange about the packaging of the backwoods smokes box famous dex was purchasing. he then stops and rhetorically adds “that’s a mark of buddha in between yo’ face?,” laughing along with his friend. this is in reference to the 2001 stoner film how high, in which chuck deezy’s character ivory opined that the pubic patch between his eyebrows was the ‘mark of buddha.’