The Art of Being the Worst

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When the gangbangers would try to pull it, I was like, ‘Yo, I will fuck you up. And if you wanna call your cousin, call him. I’ll call me! I’ll call me right now.’ We were shooting TEC-9s when we were babies, so the whole gangsta image, that ain’t nothing.” - The Worst Dude Ever in Entertainment Weekly January 11, 2008

It must be pretty embarassing to be goofy-footed right now.

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26 Responses to “The Art of Being the Worst”
  1. mooney the supplier aka pope of spring st Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    i wonder where he got that setup,oh wait the art of bein G cool,i know lemme guess SUPREME!

  2. fag Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    SUPREME DONT MAKE YA GOD, GET OVER IT

  3. lupe Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    yall some smart dumb niggas, thats switch

  4. betty googer Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    looks like switch mike

  5. drudge Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    it took me like 2 minutes of looking at that picture and see that it said lupe fiasco to realize it wasnt switch

  6. switch mike Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 12:21 am

    it is me

  7. Cool Hand Luke Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    This nigga and his corporate handler’s are running a scam. We all know this nucka ain’t skate. Why in god’s name, if you didn’t skate, for one, and you in the rap game, or you tryin to get in the rap game, would you, a.) pick up a skateboard? b.) promote skateboarding? c.) write a song about skateboarding? d.) write a song about skateboarding? e.) Write a song about skateboarding? f.) Write a song about skateboarding when you obviously don’t skate? g.) Front like you skate when it’s painfully apparent you don’t? and h.) be still, at this point, be fronting like you do??? Whatever, I can’t even get upset about this kind of BULLSHIT anymore. It’s literally all around us at this point. This is what you call CORPORATE INVOLVEMENT IN SKATEBOARDING! Corporate takeover. This is what suits in offices on Madison Ave. see/saw as the new big thing to make money off of and they hand this toolbox from the suburbs of Chicago a skateboard and say “you know what Lupe(?), we’re gonna market you as the next incarnation of Pharell(remember that stooge?) and you gonna be the new skateboard sambo.” This kid should be ashamed of himself and his fellow compatriots at his suburban high school should stuff his ass in a locker for even looking at a skateboard. And to set the record straight, he bought that thing at the Element Store in Times Square. I’m gonna even take this time to take a swipe right now at all corporate involvement in skateboarding, whether it be Echo OWNING ZooYork(a hip-hop rhinoceros?), Nike BUYING it’s way in to the skateboard market, Adidas FOLLOWING suit, Element having A STORE IN TIMES SQUARE!!!, IPath SELLING to Timberland(you seen the new Redman video? He’s wearing IPath’s, no shit.) and even D.C. with all the toolbox’s who wear that garbage logo like its FUBU. All you nigga’s that SOLD YOUR BRANDS OUT should be tarred and feathered and paraded around Union Square! Word up, shame on all you yellow belly’d nigga’s.

  8. Near Future Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    In a nut shell, corporately entities that don’t have their origins in skateboarding and the CEO’s of these corporations that don’t skate shouldn’t own skateboard companies, period!

  9. QuarterSnacks Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Osiris > Nike SB

  10. Twis2ed Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    umm why cant we all just skate,
    put the corporate shit behind and skate just because
    its what keeps us leveled, and sane.
    instead of stressing on shit like this!

  11. switch Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    once again that is me

  12. thehillsidestrangler Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 1:19 am

    yo that’s switch

  13. Near Future Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 1:32 am

    In response to “Twis2ed”: umm, yeah, let’s just, like, ignore it and, like, maybe like, the corporate meglo-monsters will leave the skateboarder a little crumb of the control of their artform. Or better yet, like maybe, if we like, close our eyes, it will like, go away.
    Again, I can’t stress how important it is to be an educated consumer, not only with skateboard product choices, but with everything you take into your life, to guarantee your hard earned cash doesn’t go to line the pockets of corporate scum who never skated or the greedy sell-outs who enable these corporate, opportunist pigs. Echo is not cool, neither is selling your brand to Echo or kicking off an entirely dedicated, original team to buy another team and then kick that team off to buy yet another team off Birdhouse that Birdhouse basically stole off Five-Boro. This shit has got to stop. You ever see the kooks that wear Element and Zoo shit? Straight up, I’ve seen rollerbladers in Element gear. And lets not even bring up Echo.
    And it’s not going to stop if we just ignore it and “just skate”. There’s nothing wrong with being cognitive and conscious of what is going on in YOUR industry. Nike is not cool, nor is Adidas. These are non-skater owned brands that are just “in” skateboarding to make a buck. I’m sorry to inform you of this. Element sold their operation out a long time ago as did D.C. IPath is owned by Timberland for chrit’s sakes. You think Timberland bought IPath because they like skateboarding? Fuck no, they bought to make money off skateboarders.
    Sorry, but your money is going to non-skating/never even picked up a skateboard C.E.O’s and their shareholders, who are probably already filthy rich and simply keep the machine properly greased and the guise propped up to make it look like these are still “core” brands and are down for skateboarders and skateboarding. They outfit and enable clowns like Dupe’ Fiasco, Pha-rrealls?, BAM, and Rob and Big. I mean seriously, will you give my eyeballs a break and get the fuck off MTV? What a fucking embarrassment to human beings, let alone skateboarders.
    So Snackman(entry #9), are you comparing Nike SB(which stands for SCUMB BAGS, by the way) to Oshitris? You’re close if you are because they’re both complete crap, but there is one big fundamental difference. Osiris is at least, actually owned by a skateboarder. To my knowledge, I believe Osiris is still owned by Tony Mag of H-Street/Life Skateboards fame. Can anyone confirm this?

  14. chris the slap kid Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    this dude had an interview in slap which was super weak in which he was asked what kind of set up he had. to which he replied “when im in new york i just goto supreme and set up a new board and throw it out when i leave. that shits dirty” how are you going to skateboard if you’re too much of a pussy to deal with the dirt on your skateboard. not to mention he sent in a photo of himself ALMOST on a backside boardslide on a flat bar which he obviously fell off of. I was tryin’ to run it in the mag for everyone to get a good laugh. the editor wasnt bout it.

  15. Bruce Dickenson Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Do you have any favorite tricks?
    The ollie, I like ollieing. It’s a clean trick and it’s something that has a nice little pop. I catch some air when I ollie, so it’s my favorite trick.

  16. QuarterSnacks Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 2:32 am

    Anyone who is a skateboarder who I don’t know is quite frankly an asshole in my eyes (on top of fifty to ninety percent of those who I do know), so I would prefer that my money didn’t go to them.

  17. thehillsidestrangler Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 2:54 am

    it’s all about control baby

  18. Future Near Says:
    February 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 am

    In response to QuarterSnacks #16, basically what you’re saying is, “I wear Nike’s.”

  19. Future Near Says:
    February 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    And you’re also saying, “I love me some Lupe’ and I want more, Mr. Corporate CEO man! Please, take over my beloved skateboard industry, I don’t care, just give me more Lupe’ and Nike and Adidas. I need it in my life! Fuck all those core brands run and built by hard working skateboarders, I want corporate crap!”

  20. RONSON LAMBERT Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    I RIDE FOR WORLD INDUSTRIES SKATEBOARDS AND SHOES N I LOVE IT!

  21. supremesucksbigdick Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 5:32 am

    supreme is the worst. They’ve prostituted ny skating for as long az they can. Fuck them if you work there ur a fucking slave selling out all of our soles to shopaholic dickheads that wanna turn my lifestyle into a nice steady dollar. if you have any part in that? FUCK YOU

    STOPYOURVICIOUS WAYS this is the time of the new man

  22. Future Now Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Thank You “supremesucksbigdick”!!! This is indeed the time of the new man. Say no to Supreme and corporate whores. Supreme is for juiced up jocks who have blindly handed over the ability to think for themselves in return for approval in the form of a Supreme label and rely on the status quo to dictate to them what is cool based on the shallow insecurities of herd mentality. People wearing and supporting the Supreme label do so with shame and humiliation of all of that which that brand represents. Same goes for any other corporately owned “skate brand”.

  23. you're all fucking idiots Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    do you know what a corporation is you dumb fuck?

    supreme is as much of a corporation as autumn or kcdc

    there aren’t shares of supreme on the stock exchange you fucking idiot

    next time think before you speak and maybe we can save ourselves the timme of infecting ourselves with your fuckin stupidity trying to sound smart

  24. Lupe Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    http://lupesboard.imeem.com/

  25. popshuv Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Tony Mag doesnt own Osiris anymore. He was embezzling all the money and got caught about 2 years ago. The China factory took it over because they owed something like 20 million dollars. Mag never would give back the money so they fired him and put in the Vans guy to run the company.

  26. Dave Thomas Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 1:24 am

    now thats gangster so wheres he live i need a milli

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