Where the !#[cent]k is the muska?!How you living? Good. Good. I'm just out here in LA. You were on top of the skate skate, fish: see ray. skate Any of nine genera (suborder Rajoidea) of rounded to diamond-shaped rays. These bottom-dwellers are found from tropical to near-Arctic waters and from the shallows to depths of more than 9,000 ft (2,700 m). world busting the biggest rails, setting the fashion trends, and keeping up with dudes Dudes may refer to:
Same shit, dude. Nothing's changed Nothing's Changed is a poem by Tatamkhulu Afrika. It shows a Coloured man's (presumably Afrika) emotions upon returning to District Six in Cape Town, Afrika's home community before it was emptied. . Get ready, it's coming. It's coming, people. Same shit everyday: skating, skating, skating. Every day? Hell yeah. Well, maybe not everyday ... if I'm hung over. What's the longest you've been off the board? Ever? Maybe a few weeks from injury. But after partying, maybe I won't go jump down a 20-stair handrail the next morning, but I'll still get on my board and hit the streets. Just because I'm not in every magazine doesn't mean I'm not skating. I may not be on the craziest mission like I was at one time to grind the most stairs, but skating's always skating. That's in my blood and that will never change, whether you see me in a magazine or not. When's the last time you busted bust·ed adj. 1. Slang a. Smashed or broken: busted glass; a busted rib. b. Out of order; inoperable: a busted vending machine. 2. a big Muska-style handrail attack? How many stairs counts for one of those? Kids are kickflipping 18 and shit. 'Cause they studied the videos very carefully. I paved pave tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. the way for them, and now I continue to try and hold it down. As well you should. I definitely understand how everybody would portray me exactly like you said, but when you do something so much in life and that's al! you fucking do every single day and that's your job, sometimes you've got to step away from it a little bit to enjoy it again. That's what happens to all of us. You've got to prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. things. Living in the land of Hollywood, there's a lot of distractions in life out here. Whether it's getting in goals you want to achieve outside of the skateboard industry, whether it's partying, whether it's girls--there are a lot of distractions in the land of Tinseltown. Are you a Scientologist yet? Hell no, fool. Hell no. I'm a Muskatologist. What five records must every DJ have in his trunk? Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers--let me think of some new, hot shit I'm spinning. What else do I rock? Duran Duran Duran Duran are an English pop group notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. They were the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States. Greatest Hits, any day Z shit's always good, and any Biggie big·gie n. Slang 1. A very important person: "hassles between executive biggies" New York. 2. . What's your sponsorship status these days? Boards? Shoes? Trucks? Basically like I said, since stepping away from the industry I haven't been in connection with everybody, and since the Circa thing went down I've just been living life. I made some changes; I was skating and then basically I took a little vacation for a minute and have just been traveling the world and hanging out with friends. There's always something brewing up; I don't stop. I'm always creating one way or another. But basically, no shoe deals. I don't even have a wheel sponsor; Ghetto Child isn't in business. I've got Shorty's and Indy and that's what I'm representing right now. Did you really live in a hotel for a year? Yeah. What hotel? The Chateau Marmont. Describe an average daily Muska schedule. Everyday holds something new, man. Basically my life consists of being in LA right now. I wake up and go skate with the homies This article is about a toy series. For the slang usage, see Homie. Homies are a series of 2-inch figurines loosely based upon Chicano (Mexican American) characters in the life of artist David Gonzales. , call 'em up, go down to Brooklyn projects and kick it, get some breakfast--we've got a mini-ramp there--skate there, maybe hook up with some local skaters like Dev-1 and Minniek and maybe Braydon. I've been skating with him lately, little Baker kid. He's all grown up. Yeah, he's all grown up. He's at my house fight now. What goes on in those velvet-rope clubs? Dude, anything you could imagine. If you turn on the TV and see it, that's what it is. Hollywood is here; it's fun times, man, addictively fun times. I've got it too good. I wish I'd never been introduced to the club scene. What's the gnarliest bender you've ever been on? A bender, what's that? No, there's missions, dude. I've been on crazy party missions, stuff that I can't explain; you'd just have to be there and live it. Everything from penthouse penthouse Enclosed area on top of a building. A penthouse can be an apartment on the roof or top floor of a building or a structure on the roof housing the top of an elevator shaft, air-conditioning equipment, or stairs leading to the roof. suites in Vegas and Miami--chilling in the Shore Club--to going to the fashion shows in Paris; I've done it all in the past couple years, man, and I've had a hell of a fun time while it's gone down. And skating the whole time doing it. Oh yeah, you've got to bring a board. It was a tour that wasn't chartered by Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush. thrasher Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs. . Where's the strangest place you've ended up after the buzz wore off? Well, I'm always in control of what I'm doing. I don't get wasted and lose touch with where I'm at. There have been so many crazy times. One time we were raging in Miami--I had this little movie part out in Miami and then we started partying that night and ended up the next morning, straight from the club pretty much, on a private jet with one of the Princes of Iran headed to Vegas, then partied in Vegas for like four days, and then came home. It was pretty crazy. What would you say to people who think you're looking a little on the heavy side? Yeee-ah. Money gets you thick. Catch us up to speed on what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. in the MuskaBeats world. Still listening to music, man. With the MuskaBeats we didn't really release it at the level that I'd anticipated, and it was basically a lot more money put into a project than was made on it, but at the same time it was one of the best times of my life to be able to work with the artists and basically fulfill the dreams of mine with that album. Nobody beats the biz biz n. Informal Business. biz Noun Informal business Noun 1. , right? Nobody beats the biz. No, I still be hustling hustling Medical practice The illegal soliciting of victims of accidents or dread disease, to provide them with services; after being hustled, the Pt's insurance company is usually billed for office visits and treatment. See Ambulance chaser. on a bunch of beats. I've got a lot of beats going right now, but I haven't recorded any new artists lately because I don't really have distribution for my music. You know, you can only put enough energy into something where there's money going to be coming back. So I'm trying to figure out distribution before we drop another project. What's your relationship with the Hilton sisters The Hilton sisters may refer to:
They're my homies. I moved across the street from them and we just became good friends, and we tear it up on the town. We party. Can they hold it down with the Muska? They can hold it down. They can keep up. But you said money gets yon thick, so how come they ain't all wide? I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . I guess it doesn't happen to the girls. What else are you up to when you're not skating? I'm a non-stop worker, Jake. I've been working on this clothing line a lot lately. I've got a four-color silk-screen press at my house and I'm just doing everything in-house and designing on the computer, video editing--everything. I've been really crazy into computer graphics and video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. and designing logos and different shirt designs. That takes up a lot of my time. Why does skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean need the Muska in 2006? Because, man, it's boring without me. I may be taking a break from the skateboard industry; I didn't say I took a break from my skateboarding. Hell no. If you come down here, you'll catch my ass any day on the streets of LA skating. I don't see any of the other pros skating around in the street. I don't drive to the spots and pre-plan every kickflip back lip I want to do on the handrail just to get the sequence and get the angle. You can catch me skating more real than anybody in the street on any given day in Hollywood. Come down here and see for yourself. Fuck all Noun 1. fuck all - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery" bugger all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams you haters. Perfect. One last question: Thrasher magazine, 25th Anniversary, what's the deal? I love Thrasher. I should have done more for you guys over my whole career, man. It's my fault. I love you guys, Jake. You guys are the shit. |
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