Today is the ten year anniversary of two of the last decade’s top ten rap records (number one, and number eight or nine, respectively). This date marked the beginning of the end for New York’s hold on musical relevancy that expired around the time Trap Music came out, and has not experienced a resurgence since. And probably never will. (Disclaimer to casual readers: Quarter snacks does not acknowledge modern genres of music outside of rap, so MGMT, Animal Collective, and other gay Brooklyn bands do not have any effect on the city’s musical relevancy.)

In the midst of all the Banks-being-closed-for-four-years talk, the dream topic of the Little Banks’ reinstatement is something that should be addressed. If you have any ideas as to how to convince the idiots in the public works department who prefer overgrown weeds, homeless people and heroin needles over skateboarders that a revival would be a good look, please share your ideas here.

Anthony Pappalardo is like the Stephan Marbury of skateboarding. He’s somehow Converse’s star player, but literally doesn’t do anything. I know that half of Long Island will be out for blood upon reading that, but after about a decade, old video parts don’t really subsidize a lack of heart when the rest of the team is out there on the court killing it every night. Someone give Sammy Baca a shoe, he actually skates.

So much for the Parks Department’s age-old excuse of kicking us out because we’re “damaging the property.” Last time I checked, snow doesn’t experience “property damage.” But they seem to feel otherwise. At least we’re not the only ones suffering at the hands of discrimination.

Still pretty much the best European on a skateboard after all these years.

What an idiot.

Quote of the Week: “He has yellow fever. I don’t like niggas who got yellow fever.” - B.B. the Boss

You can still hop that joint?

Stereo sucks, but they posted some footage of Adrian Vega that is more than worth your time. Perhaps the only redeeming factor of the Union Square demise that occurred last year is the (hopefully) impending trend of propping up tree grates Temple University style over the seemingly useless metal posts scattered about the perimeter of the the park. [*I’m actually not 100% sure that is Union but it looks like it.]

I know people around here tend to get offended whenever there’s a God forbid, non-skateboarding related post, but if you are a fan of Switch Michael Strobert’s work on the Mind Field Re-Edit, you should probably give this a quick watch. If you hate it, oh well.

The previously discussed lack of a rail over the six at FedEX is no longer.

Good luck with this one.

I completely forgot that this was even put online, but watch Can’t Ban the Snackman 2 if you haven’t seen it already.

Quote of the Week: “Only real fucking whores go out in January.” - Roc

UPDATE: COMMENTS AND ARCHIVED CLIPS NOW WORKING AGAIN.

Jimmy Marketti threw together a clip of some Rob Campbell footage from the past year or so over one of the few listenable songs from some Nas-guy-from-Queen’s worst album. Not an full official part or anything, but a pleasure to watch. I believe that Substance is still making a video, and the official part should be in there, but I could be wrong.

The Rob Campbell Mixtape [Quicktime] [53.8 MB / 4:10]
The Rob Campbell Mixtape [Vimeo Link]
The Rob Campbell Mixtape [Youtube Link]

Also, as an administrative announcement, the whole clip archive downloader basically lost its mind and decided to stop working and allowing downloads of older, archived clips. So only the top ten most recent clips on the archive pages are downloadable. That, in addition to 2009’s promise of a spot section update should be a part of that often-promised administrative overhaul that should take place around here and take up whatever time I decide to spend working on this site during the winter, considering I won’t have to dedicate any time towards re-editing any videos as we head into the darkest months of New York’s winter like I had to last year. If you’re looking for older QS clips, I’d recommend our Youtube page.

And as an end-note to the Decade 100 list, thanks to Slap, The Chrome Ball Incident, Frozen in Carbonite, Skateboarder Magazine, NY Skateboarding, Nancy Reagan and In the Gnar for the support and the linkage.

Also thanks to the homie at Boil the Ocean and Josh Stewart for their inclusion of the Mind Field re-edit on their respective year-end lists.

Independent but I’m ballin’ like I did a movie!

Over on Vimeo, there’s an eighteen minute long “Bro Cam” video put together by KLS-1 and Ryan Gee.

Its dominantly Habitat/AWS TF outtakes, but there are a whole bunch of extras sprinkled in between, including DC video-era Macba footage, a bit of Love & Post-Love Philly footage, a few stopovers in New York that date back to the Broadway end of the Wall Street Gap still being skateable, and a some other antics that would later surface once the DC video was released. The whole thing is dominantly set to early-2000s era New York rap, back when the Neptunes were still actually making good music. Features parts of Kalis, Getz and Wenning. Worth a watch, especially considering that death-inducing wind that could be heard outside of our windows at this current moment in time.

See you guys at Sway in a few hours!

Happy New Year.

To know where you’re going, you have to know where you have been, so before you look any further, if you have catching up to do, take the time to do it now…

Volume 1: 100-91
Volume 2: 90-81
Volume 3: 80-71
Volume 4: 70-61
Volume 5: 60-51
Volume 6: 50-41
Volume 7: 40-31
Volume 8: 30-21
Volume 9: 20-11
Volume 10: 10-2

You probably knew it all along, but here it is, the single, most important event to occur in New York City skateboarding from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009…

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