Now I woke up early this morning to these gangsta birds outside my window fighting each other on my screen window. So as I get up to see whats going on, they leave the scence..nobody died. So might as well get up, so I wash my face, brush teeth, and grab a bowl of honey bunches of oats, and turn on my computer and start reading my top favorite blogs and sites. So I go to Transworld Skateboarding and read this shit that made me almost not eat breakfast.
Joe Maloof, yeah owner of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, Palms Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, is getting started on some shit bigger than X-Games. The event is called
The Maloof Money Cup..the fuck is this shit!! Good lawd , a six event, three day joint nothing else but straight up skateboarding. It runs from July 11-13 of this year at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California.
You already know how I feel about this, I don't know if I want to waste the energy on this one. All I want to say as I've said before when the big corporations get ahold of your culture and find out it's big money..it's over. You just got to hold on to what your "culture" what ever it may be. It maybe turning into a fad soon if it isn't already. I remember when HipHop or Rap wasn't even on the radio..now that's all you hear now. I also remember when I was made fun of, gotten in fights, still getting tickets, for skateboarding when it wasn't cool. Now it's cool shit..real cool..so cool it kinda makes me sick now. I always can sit down and have conversations with younger guys that eat sleep skateboarding. The longevity I have I can still have that same convo with the guys my age or older because I was there too.
Anyways, Glad these guys can eat and fuck it man get money. If I was pro, I might do the same thing and join in. It just feels like nothing separates you from anyone, nothing is underground anymore. Skateboarding, Hip Hop, You can't do anything that don't get taken over by the masses , unless you want to start a polygamist ranch or some bullshit.LOL
Anyways my fellow tastemakers, trendsetters, Black Sheep, Locally known on the Streets, Broken Beat path makers, move to the beat of a different drum people. We will overcome and always be cranking out new shit..ALL DAY..EVERY DAY.
Damn..I went off subject again..oh well.
Read the Interview with Joe Maloof on Transworld Skateboarding HERE
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