1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Every day. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 2: Click up the breakfast clubs. Y'all morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 2: just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 3: We are the breakfast club law La Rosa is here 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 3: as well, and we got a special guest in the building, 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 3: Pro BMX biker athlete. Brothers from Queens, Nigel sevest of 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: Welcome, Big Queens, Big Queens in the building. 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 2: How are you feeling? 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 4: Incredible? Incredible God will met this morning, so I feel great. 11 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: There you go. 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: Now we get when we get brothers like you. 13 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 3: I like to start from the beginning of how right. 14 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 3: So you're from Laurelton, Queens, which is north side, which 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: is the same side of Queens. I'm from him from 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 3: Queens Village, and growing up in Queens, we all rode bikes, right, 17 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 3: but we didn't ride to the caliber of that you 18 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 3: rode for. We rode to go to the park, We 19 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 3: rode to go to the store, to bodega, to go 20 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 3: to White Castle, to go to. 21 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: Those places. 22 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: Right, guys, the Brooklyn kids from trying to steal our 23 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: bikes all the time. 24 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: But you you took a different round. 25 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: So start with you growing. 26 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 3: Up in Queens and how you got into BMX biking 27 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,199 Speaker 3: and taking it serious. 28 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 4: I mean, just like you said right, like we grew 29 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 4: up riding bikes in that capacity to get from pointy 30 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 4: to point B. For me, it was like during that 31 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 4: pointy to point B, I was like, I want to 32 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 4: jump off this curve. I want to pop up Willie 33 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 4: or like I was curious in that way and that 34 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 4: just man, it took me down a route of like okay, 35 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 4: like how far can I take this right? Like how 36 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 4: how many steps can I jump down? I want to 37 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 4: grind this bench over here? And once I started to 38 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 4: discover that you can do it professionally, I was like, oh, 39 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 4: this is what I want to do. 40 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: I was sold after that. 41 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 3: But what got you into that? Because grown up in Queens, 42 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: you know, sometimes we idolize basketball players because we see him, right, 43 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: we see Mark Jackson from Queens. 44 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 2: Stevenson and all these other people. 45 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 3: We see rappers run DMC tribe called Quaz fifty and 46 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 3: whoever it was, we seen him DJ's jam Master j 47 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 3: Klue myself. But what got you in to say, you 48 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 3: know what I can do this professionally? Was what were 49 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 3: you watching and says I want to do this. 50 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: I've seen it on TV, right, seen X games on TV, 51 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 4: seeing guys like Dave Mirror and Matt Hoffman and Ryan Niquist, 52 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 4: and these guys. 53 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: Were flying through the air. 54 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 4: They had their helmets on and their chest protectors and 55 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 4: all the stickers on their bikes, and it was super 56 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 4: cool to me. 57 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: I was just intrigued. I was like, damn, look that 58 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: looks dope. 59 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 4: And of course, like I would see like basketball players 60 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 4: on TV and rappers as you mentioned, that was dope 61 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 4: to me as well, you know what I mean. 62 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: But it was something about bike riding that it just 63 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: clicked for me. 64 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 5: It was different. How old were you when you really 65 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 5: started taking it serious? 66 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: I was like twelve years old. 67 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 4: And I just always have a big imagination as well, right, 68 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 4: Like I'm just living on my imagination still. But even then, 69 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 4: I was like, man, like, it's something about this bike 70 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 4: that I'm thinking about different things that I want to do, 71 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 4: and I'm going outside and trying it in real time, right, 72 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 4: just figuring it out. 73 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: Like I would take like an old. 74 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 4: Tire and a board and make a MT and like 75 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 4: go back thirty forty feet and just pedal. 76 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: As fast as I can hit that ramp. And fly 77 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: through the air. 78 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 4: And it was something about that feeling of flying through 79 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 4: the air that became like just like adrenaline rush for me. 80 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: I remember that. 81 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 5: You built like you would build a ramp. 82 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, building ramps. 83 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to like Saint Clair's Park and the 84 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 4: school that I'm grinding on, like marble ledges and whatnot, 85 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 4: and and then I could find a jump on my bike, 86 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 4: I would do it. 87 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 3: Now you're also from Caribbean descent. 88 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what did. 89 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 3: Your Caribbean parents say when you say, Ma, I want 90 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: you to ride bikes? And the bikes that you're talking 91 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 3: about are not the bikes from TSS tar Ya and 92 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 3: those type of stores. You had professional bike with professional 93 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 3: pegs them. Bikes were a lot of money back in. 94 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: How did that work? 95 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: Man? 96 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 4: Like my mom she didn't really like to watch me 97 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 4: ride like any mind. She was like, I don't want 98 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 4: you to see hurt yourself, like I'm afraid for you, 99 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: and things of that nature. But the thing that she 100 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 4: did that I that I applaud her for that she 101 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 4: gave me the freedom to go out and try, you 102 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 4: know what I mean. Like she may have not wanted 103 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 4: to watch me do it because she was afraid of me, 104 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 4: like hurting myself, but she let me go out in 105 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 4: the neighborhood and do my thing and let me hang 106 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 4: out with other kids who rode bikes and whatnot, so 107 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 4: like that was what that was. And when I turned pro, 108 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 4: like she didn't really understand it at first, but it 109 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 4: took her a minute, but once she got it, she's like, okay, 110 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 4: cool and it was in the full support of it. 111 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 4: So shout out to Mama Sylvester. 112 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 6: You've been working with Nike for over a decade now, right, Yeah, 113 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 6: it's been how. 114 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: Long it's been over fifteen years? Now? 115 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 7: How old were you when you started working with them? 116 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: I was eighteen, so yeah, it's crazy. 117 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 7: Was that before you were pro? 118 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: It was right after? 119 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 6: Okay, gotcha? Because I was going to ask because when 120 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 6: you were a kid, I saw an interview. Did you 121 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 6: talked about when you were a kid? Nike was just 122 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 6: sending you stuff and I was wondering, like, at what point, 123 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 6: because you know, social media is it's not new, but 124 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 6: like people understanding how to use social media and you're 125 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 6: laying You're like, you're one of the people that I 126 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 6: think people look at because we don't really know too 127 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 6: much about black BMX bike riders. 128 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 7: How did you know that? Like do what you do 129 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 7: to attract the brands that young for sure. 130 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: So BMX has like a proper industry, right, Like they're like, 131 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: there's a. 132 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: Way to turn pro like in that way, it's pretty 133 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 4: much like it's either you ride contests and sponsors would 134 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 4: see you like at these contests, or you can be 135 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 4: a free rider, which is like creating content I would 136 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 4: say would be the equivalent and like putting that content 137 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,679 Speaker 4: out into the world. And I took the free ride route, 138 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: where like I didn't ride in contest, didn't care for that. 139 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 4: Those contests never really came to like New York City 140 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 4: and extremely unconventional, extremely and I was actually on a tour. 141 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 4: We went down to North Carolina to meet Dave Mirror, 142 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 4: who was the dude, the not dude, but the athlete, 143 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 4: the legend that gave me my first shot to turn pro. 144 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 4: And when I and when I met him, he just 145 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: like a liking to me. And at this point in time, 146 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 4: like I would compare Dave Mirror, he's like Michael Jordan 147 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 4: to be a X riding, you know what I mean. 148 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 4: So we were down there met him He's like, Yo, 149 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 4: I'm starting this brand. I want I want to sign 150 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 4: you to the brand name of the brand the brands 151 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 4: called Miracle Bikes. So he ended up signing me to 152 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 4: the brand maybe four months after meeting him. And while 153 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 4: also on that trip, I met a gentleman by the 154 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 4: name of Mark Closi. Mark Closi would end up going 155 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 4: on to be the team manager of the Nike BMX program. 156 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 4: So shortly after signing with Dave Mirror, Mark Closi was like, cool, like, 157 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 4: I'm at Nike now I'm going to sign you. So 158 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 4: I literally signed a turn pro and signed to Miracle 159 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 4: Bikes at Nike all within the year turning eighteen. 160 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 2: Was there any pressure for yourself? 161 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 3: Because I know, growing up, even watching television in the 162 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 3: X Games, there wasn't too many black people doing it, right, 163 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: so now you are kind of the black guy that 164 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 3: does it. 165 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 2: Is there any pressure. 166 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 3: Knowing that all these kids are looking up to you 167 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 3: because you are the one that looks like me, You're 168 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 3: the one that looks like my brother, You're the one 169 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 3: that came from the place that I came. Is there 170 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 3: any pressure with that? 171 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 4: No, Because there were black BMX athletes on a professional 172 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 4: level before me, you know, and a lot of come 173 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 4: after me. I'm just doing my thing. Honestly, I don't 174 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 4: feel any pressure for me. It's a far ast pressure 175 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: for that. For me, it's more I put the pressure 176 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 4: myself to be the best. That's what it matters to 177 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 4: me at this point, Like I'm here for a reason 178 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 4: and I want to leave a mark that will stand 179 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 4: into the test of time. 180 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 3: You were probably one of the first that really mixed 181 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: the culture together, right because usually when you see a 182 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 3: BMX biker, you'd be like, that's not me. I liked 183 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 3: what they're doing, but that doesn't represent me, or if 184 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 3: you see somebody like ah, he doesn't wear what I wear. 185 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 2: But you were totally different. 186 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 3: Like you you were the I don't want to say 187 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: the hip hop be a Mex biker, but you were 188 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: the hip hop biker. 189 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: Like you were the one that was like this, like 190 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: me listen. 191 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 3: To music I listened to So explain that a little 192 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 3: bit in that breakdown. 193 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's similar to what you just said, right, 194 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 4: Like we grew up not too far from one another, 195 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 4: so that was the environment, you know what I mean, 196 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 4: Like I'm watching like my older brothers, whatnot come through 197 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 4: the block and rimmed up Maximus and lexusis and whatnot, 198 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 4: and like I'm watching music videos on TV and I'm 199 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 4: going to the Coliseum block to go shop to go 200 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 4: by jerseys and warm up suits and fitted hats. 201 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: I'll come from that. 202 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 4: So when I turned and pro even just like being 203 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 4: X writer in general, I naturally mix those two things 204 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 4: together because it's just that's just who I was. 205 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: That was, but who I am, you know what I mean. 206 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 4: So that's why it looks like That's why it comes 207 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 4: across like that, and it comes across real. It's not 208 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 4: like for store, I'm not living outside myself or doing 209 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: something that's not me. 210 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 3: Was it difficult for you because during that time, it 211 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: was a lot of bmx's. 212 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: Were so crossover, right, they were so Ara. 213 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 3: Crime being fitched, but you weren't. So was it difficult 214 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 3: to get deals and difficult to get placements in places 215 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 3: you need to be because you weren't like the rest 216 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 3: of them. 217 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 4: I definitely felt friction at times, and especially within the 218 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 4: industry right at a certain point in time. And she 219 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 4: was like, oh, like you're trying to be a rap 220 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 4: or like you're too hip hop for us. 221 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: And I was like, what are you talking about? 222 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 4: Like this is who I am, so I think it 223 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 4: took them a minute to get that. But what's also 224 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 4: interesting though, it was like for me coming up, I'm 225 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 4: watching BMX videos and guys are using rap songs and 226 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 4: things that nature in these songs. Again, like there were 227 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 4: black BMX riders or riders of color way before me. Right, 228 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 4: I just took it to another level, right when you 229 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 4: see me in a music video, where asat ferg and 230 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 4: people are just like whoa, that's different. But at the 231 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 4: same time, like riding BMX bikes you know what I mean? 232 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: Like we cool know that. Oh yeah, bur grab bikes. 233 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 4: It was in one of my first videos back I 234 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 4: think it was like two thousand and eight, thousand and 235 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 4: nine or something like that. 236 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: It's even started rapping. 237 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 7: You want to tell his fashion too, he dresses a 238 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 7: lot Like yeah. 239 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 4: I mean, like, it's just it's part of what we do. Right, 240 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 4: Just because you ride bikes doesn't mean that we're not 241 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 4: into other things. It means that that doesn't mean that 242 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 4: we're confined to one space, right, I mean like not 243 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 4: like it's just part of what we do growing up 244 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 4: in the hood. 245 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: Like you ride bikes, you know what I mean, And. 246 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 8: As good as you make it look relatable though, because 247 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 8: I mean you make it more relatable because although bikers 248 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 8: do more than just ride bikes to some kids, some 249 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 8: kids me think that's like a category where it's like, uh, 250 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 8: you know, not like like for instance, nast you don't 251 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 8: see a lot of black Nascar drivers. 252 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. 253 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 8: So to your point, like what you do, you make 254 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 8: it look more accessible and more relatable to like somebody 255 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 8: growing up in Queens Now or Brooklyn or whatever. 256 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 4: You know, And that's and that's super important to me though, 257 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 4: right Like I want kids from those neighborhoods to know 258 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 4: that they can do this too, you know what I mean, 259 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 4: Like why not, you know, like just because you're from 260 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 4: a certain neighborhood or from a certain environment a certain situation, 261 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 4: doesn't mean that you have to be confined to only 262 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 4: doing certain things, you know, so like. 263 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 5: Like wrapping or playing basketball, that's too. 264 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: We can do way more. We can do way way more. 265 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 6: Talk about a little bit about brand trust, because one 266 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 6: of the things I thought was interesting, like in your packaging, 267 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 6: because Nike is very particular with their brand, but they 268 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 6: let you do the bike over the night, and I 269 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 6: know that you also had that on a shoe, like 270 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 6: one of your first shoes you did. 271 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 7: But Jordan's right. 272 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it cooler. 273 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 5: Look yeah, but. 274 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 6: It's fire right even so, like if y'all I was 275 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 6: really researching yesterday because I'm I think what you do 276 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 6: is so fire. But if you look closely, there's like 277 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 6: a distorted text on this right. Nike, you don't play 278 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 6: about their branding. How was it for you? Was it 279 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 6: your idea to say, hey, can we do the Nike 280 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 6: as bike And were they just down or did they 281 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 6: come to you with that? 282 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: No? 283 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 4: So what I did my first AJ one, my first 284 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 4: collaboration with Jordan Brand was in twenty and seventeen, and 285 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 4: that's when the idea sparked. I remember I was sitting 286 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 4: in like the Energy design room looking at one of 287 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 4: the reference shoes that we were using now, looking at 288 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 4: the label just like this. I'm like, man, would be 289 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 4: so cool if we just turned into it. B And 290 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 4: at that point in time, we were like, no way, 291 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 4: they'll like let us do it. So we just sat 292 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 4: on the idea. And this is when I was still 293 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 4: signed to the Nike side of the business. I signed 294 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 4: to the Jordan brand side of the business in twenty 295 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 4: twenty one, and the first shoe I worked on when 296 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 4: I signed to the Jordan Brent side of the business, 297 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 4: it was a friends and family shoe. It was a 298 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 4: Nike airship, which is the first shoe that MJ. Wallden 299 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 4: came into the league before the AJ one. And because 300 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,839 Speaker 4: it was a friends OF's family shoe, I was like, yoh, 301 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 4: maybe they'll let us do it now. So we did 302 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 4: it and then once we posted it online it went crazy. 303 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: I think it was because of. 304 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 4: The concept made so much sense, right, Like people have 305 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 4: watched me on my bike in the air or my 306 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 4: entire career, right, so when you take something like that 307 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 4: and then you you bring it together with bike air 308 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, it just makes so much sense. 309 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 4: That's why it just took off. And now like all 310 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 4: the shoes that I'm doing and have bike on it. 311 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 6: Do you like resellers reselling your sneakers and not? Because 312 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 6: some of it, like the brick by bricks it was 313 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 6: like World War two out here. 314 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 5: Yes, it's almost impossible to find. 315 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 7: You like that or no? Because how do you benefit 316 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 7: from resellers? 317 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: That's part of the culture. 318 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 4: This is part of the culture, you know, like the 319 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 4: fact that people want to pay two, three, four times 320 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,599 Speaker 4: over like the real retail price for the shoe. It 321 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 4: just says that. I mean, like they love the problem. U. 322 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 4: They relate to the story. It has equity in it, 323 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. The resell game is the 324 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 4: whole It's the whole industry, you know what I mean. 325 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: Like people. 326 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 4: Feed themselves and feed their families off that game. So 327 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 4: shout out to the resellers. Man, do y'all think. 328 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 3: I was reading something where it says, you know, when 329 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 3: you were a kid, when most kids would go into 330 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 3: Green Acres Mall or the coliseum, you wanted to get 331 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 3: on the train and. 332 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: Go to Soho. 333 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, what was so special about Manhattan and Soho during 334 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 3: that time? That was like you was like, nah, I 335 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 3: don't want to do what y'all doing. I want to 336 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 3: kind of do my own thing. 337 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: Right, And that was probably like tenth eleventh grade. I 338 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: started to do that. 339 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 4: So my mom worked in the city, so when I 340 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 4: was a kid, she would take me to the city 341 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 4: to her job. 342 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: So she taught me how to ride the train right, 343 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: and at a certain point, just like man like I 344 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: don't want. 345 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 4: To dress like everybody else. So I started to go 346 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 4: further out to get pieces or clothes or things that 347 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 4: no one else had. So I would go to like Supreme, 348 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 4: and I remember going to Supreme to by like my 349 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 4: first naked dunks, like I think it was the T nineteens. 350 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: It was all blue Nike. 351 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 4: Dunk and nowhere on the ave had them, no where 352 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 4: green nakeds had them. 353 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: And it was that thing. It was. 354 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 4: It was having pieces, having sneakers that no one else had, 355 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. You know, you come back 356 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 4: to the hood rock or something no knows Scott like, yo, 357 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 4: you get those from. 358 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: So that was the thing for me. 359 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 5: Is somebody think you got it from Canal Street. That's 360 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 5: the first thing somebody said we ain't got. 361 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 4: But you look at the game now and that's just normal, right, 362 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 4: Like kids are leaving whatever, going to wherever to get 363 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 4: the pieces that no one have, or to have them, 364 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 4: to be to have that thing that none of your 365 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 4: people's got, you know, it's just part of the game. 366 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: Fly. 367 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 2: I also riding. 368 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 3: When I was a kid riding, we didn't have helmets, right, 369 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 3: We didn't right, we didn't wear helmets, right, So what 370 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 3: was the worst injury that you've got rotten and what happened? 371 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: Asked this question? 372 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 4: Man, I think people look at BMX AND's like, man like, 373 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 4: it's like the most dangerous thing. 374 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: Corn b. 375 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 4: It's just as dangerous as any other sport. Right, think 376 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 4: about a running back coming through the line. Is ray 377 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 4: lewis right there ready to at. 378 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 3: Least he got some. 379 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 7: You know when to expect it. 380 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 6: But the bike riding is like it could not happen, 381 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 6: but it could also happen. 382 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 3: In singing to do something the other day and I'm like, 383 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 3: no disrespect, not get up there in age. 384 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: I'm like his body and he knee. 385 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: Pads that we like just dropped a couple of minutes ago. 386 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 7: Yeah, and this is like probably made to you, but 387 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 7: I was like, whoa, my knees. 388 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: Hurt washing, So what was the worst? The worst is. 389 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 4: I broke my wristle on my nineteenth birthday. Not like 390 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 4: that was terrible for me. It's my first major injury, 391 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 4: and from then it's just like bruises, you know what 392 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 4: I mean, Like my shins all jacked up. I've been 393 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 4: doing this for so long, Like any athlete, you get 394 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 4: to that point where it's like man, of course you 395 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 4: can experience injury. 396 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: It's part of the game right until your point. 397 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 4: But also like, yes, you like you know to expect 398 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 4: that you're gonna get hit when you're playing football, it's 399 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 4: the same thing, like but you're like you're trying not 400 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 4: to But the same thing with bike riding, right like 401 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 4: you're trying to land every single trick. You're not trying 402 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 4: to hurt yourself, right, And it's a it's a true 403 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 4: art form, right like if you don't just go out 404 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 4: and just jump off of something, like you work your 405 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 4: way up to that, right, So if you're trying to 406 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 4: go jump down ten stairs, you're gonna try two first, 407 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 4: master that, then you go to four six, self on 408 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 4: and so on, And it's everything is very thoughtful, right Like, 409 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 4: it's not just like I'm wake up today and to 410 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 4: try like this thing I never tried before. No, like you, 411 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 4: it's calculated, right, It's all calculated and by and for 412 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 4: me personally, being as calculated as I am, I have 413 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 4: I guess like limited the amount of injuries, and. 414 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: Of course by like the grace of God. But because 415 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: I love it. 416 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 3: When you wake up in the month, you can be 417 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 3: like I can take the ferrari. So do you still 418 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 3: enjoy it? Like now I'm gonnake the bike and I 419 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 3: love it. 420 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 4: Man, I got the bike in the back of the 421 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 4: wagon right now, you know what I mean, Like you 422 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 4: just pull up sometimes and you know case. 423 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 7: Jump down. 424 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 4: I still love it, man. I still enjoy going to 425 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,640 Speaker 4: the skate park. I still love being out there finding spots, 426 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 4: challenging myself in that way, Like it's still my truest 427 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 4: form of self expression is being X riding. 428 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 8: You know, is there a trick that you have not 429 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 8: mastered yet that you feel like, yo, I gotta do this. 430 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 8: This is on my bucket list, Like what is that 431 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 8: one trick that you're still trying to master. 432 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: That's a good question. 433 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 4: There's always a trick that is in my mind, right 434 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 4: because how I look at BMX riting too, right, like 435 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 4: everything is ridable. 436 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: Right. 437 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 4: So I go outside in the world, I may see 438 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 4: a handrail that they just built whatever, like a year ago. 439 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, I never I didn't ride that hand rat. 440 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 4: Like I'm a fuck this hand I don't want to 441 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 4: go hit that handrail. So it's always something that like 442 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 4: I want to do, you know what I mean? And 443 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 4: I love that, like that's still a desire. 444 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: Of mine, you know what I mean. 445 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 4: Like again, I still love riding my bike, and I 446 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 4: still do as much as I possibly can. Yeah, my 447 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 4: business has grown and things have changed. I got different 448 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 4: responsibilities nowadays, but like riding is still at the core 449 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 4: of everything that I do. 450 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 2: You got locked up for it because I sometimes public place, 451 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 2: private place. You ever got locked up? 452 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, like I feel like there's 453 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:43,159 Speaker 4: been times where being mixed riding has been misunderstood, and 454 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 4: I've been misunderstood. So we'll be riding a handrail or 455 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 4: riding a park or something and it's trespassing, you know 456 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 4: what I mean. And it's like at the end of 457 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 4: the day, we're just expressing ourselves, you know what I mean. 458 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 4: Like we're not hurting nobody, We're not doing no drugs, 459 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 4: Like we're not being violent. 460 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: We're just expressing ourselves. And yeah, so it's happened before 461 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: growing up. 462 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 3: One thing I always tell people about, especially New York 463 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 3: skateboarders and bike riders, he said, y'all will fuck somebody up. 464 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: Right. 465 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 3: There's a lot of times cars will cut you all off, 466 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 3: bump into y'all, And I'm like that is the worst 467 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 3: beef to have because they got their weapons that they're 468 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 3: riding on. Have you ever been in it's a situation 469 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 3: like that where car cut your love and be like, man, 470 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 3: we have to put this guy out. 471 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 4: I mean, it happens in New York City all the time, 472 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 4: right all the time, all the time. They don't care 473 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 4: what car lane whatever. 474 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 8: Because man, y'all don't respect us. Y'all got your own lane, 475 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 8: and y'all always. 476 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: Coming over bating, like you know, I'm like they. 477 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 5: Built lanes specifically for y'all. 478 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 2: Like the lane too small. 479 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 8: Now let me go over here and try to jet 480 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 8: in front of this g wagon we need. 481 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 6: I'm trying to get the work, and you don't never 482 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 6: look to the right, turn into the left. 483 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: It's there's a lot of like bike hating going on, right. 484 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 2: I understand, I'm not exercise. 485 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 7: Have you you from us and you ride bikes. 486 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 5: And now getting. 487 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 7: Never and me post everything. I never seen you post 488 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 7: a bike. 489 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 8: Your thing is cars missed the car show man, You 490 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 8: ain't never I never see you on no damn bike. 491 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 2: I used to wear the outfit with the pattern in 492 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 2: my ass. 493 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 5: And oh yeah, yeah, he's so funny. 494 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 2: Christ Now talk about your partnership with McDonald's. 495 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 3: IVE seen that you used to work for McDonald's growing up, 496 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 3: and now they pay you not to work there and. 497 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: Just give you a break that down a little bit. 498 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: Is that incredible? Yeah? Yeah, mc Donald's was my first job. 499 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: I was fourteen years old. 500 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 4: I did two summers there and really I was just 501 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 4: saving up money to get new bikes and new bike parts, 502 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And then like once my 503 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 4: business started to roll, as far as me and being 504 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 4: a professional athlete, I decided I want to work with 505 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 4: brands that I can relate to, brands that are authentic 506 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 4: to me. And McDonald's been on the list for a 507 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 4: long time and we just got the deal done like 508 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 4: two months ago. 509 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. 510 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 4: But it's incredible for me to be able to work 511 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 4: with brands like in the capacity that I do. That 512 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 4: I'm able to not just be a face of a 513 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 4: product or a campaign, but we're actually like collaborating on 514 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 4: ideas and putting products out and putting campaigns out like that. 515 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 4: That means a lot to me, you know, and also 516 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 4: it shows people that man like even me coming from 517 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 4: the background I come from. As far as the BMX athlete, 518 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 4: non non traditional athlete. I can do these type of 519 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 4: things and play in these spaces. 520 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: And it looks good. It's not just like it's not wack, 521 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? 522 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 6: Is there ever a celebrity now that like pops up 523 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 6: in your stuff and you're like, oh wow, I saw 524 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 6: Mooie Bets wear your cleats and then those are reselling 525 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 6: like crazy or resold like crazy. 526 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 7: But does anybody surprise you? At this point? 527 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: It's all love. 528 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 4: All of it is like surprising, you know, Like even 529 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 4: when before like the break Boy Bricks came out, I 530 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 4: think it was like Brown had them on and Roman 531 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 4: Rings had him on the same night, and I was 532 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 4: just like, damn, this is crazy, you know what I mean? 533 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 4: Like this product that that we collaborated on and created 534 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 4: and put into the world, like people are really gravitating 535 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 4: towards it. So yeah, I feel like I saw just 536 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 4: love and like I appreciate it. 537 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 8: You know, is there fire that like you know, even 538 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 8: these these are fire, I'm still trying to get them. 539 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 8: Your man gonna come in here with them on, But 540 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 8: shout out to you. You also have your go Ride festival. 541 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 8: Would you call it a festivals? 542 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 4: It's not a festival yet, but it's just like it's 543 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 4: an international bike ride. 544 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 5: I think it's dope. And I see that you have 545 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 5: expanded it to Mexico City. Yes, what made you want 546 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 5: to do that? 547 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 2: You're in Mexico. 548 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 8: See, my husband is Mexican and black. He's not really 549 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 8: full bread Mexican. But they always wing ride on that 550 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 8: because you. 551 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 7: Know, because they ride bikes. 552 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: So what made you. 553 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 4: Expand comment on that? No, So this is thirty annual 554 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 4: Go Ride. The last two years we did London to 555 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 4: New York right, and for anyone who doesn't know what 556 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 4: Go Ride is, it is my international bike ride where 557 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 4: we hit multiple cities within twenty four hours. So this 558 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 4: show is like, man like, I want to take a 559 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 4: different route and we want to extend it to three cities. 560 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: So we're doing Mexico. 561 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 4: We're doing New York, Miami and Mexico City within thirty 562 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,959 Speaker 4: hours and I'll be in all three cities we do. 563 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 4: We do a fifteen mile bike around in each of 564 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 4: those cities. So I'm super excited for people are getting 565 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 4: their bikes ready. It's gonna be a good time. 566 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 5: Do you join something like that? How does that like? 567 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 8: So you how do you like get other bike riders 568 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 8: around the world to do that, like. 569 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: Just pull up. Were just promoted and is listen to 570 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: everyone's welcome to pull up. 571 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 5: So you're going to be an envy. 572 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 3: Well this weekend this I would be in Houston this 573 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 3: week but definitely would I would love to go same house. 574 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: No, exactly, It's not even that bad. 575 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 4: Honestly, we have we have people from all walks of life, 576 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 4: like kids, middle age, everything. 577 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: Like people are pulling up and riding. 578 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 4: Like when you're in that pack with so many kids 579 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 4: riding bikes, that energy is so contagious, right, Like it's 580 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 4: not like you're on a bike ride by yourself, like 581 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 4: you had kids popping whillies and doing bunny hops and 582 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 4: music kids too. Not how it's it's amazing. It's like 583 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 4: it's nothing else like it. So yeah, I mean, I'm 584 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 4: looking forward to this weekend. If you guys in New 585 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 4: York City pop out this weekend to go ride, or 586 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 4: if you're in Miami or Mexico City, will definitely be 587 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 4: out in the streets. 588 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 3: What would you tell that that younger kid right now 589 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 3: that that's watching you, that wants to get into BMX 590 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 3: bike and his parents probably be like, that's not a 591 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 3: real job. 592 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: Get a real job. 593 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 2: What would you tell that younger kid right now? 594 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: I would tell them to show your parents my Instagram 595 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 1: and showing that it is a real thing. 596 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 4: Also, man, just do what you love, honestly, bro, Like 597 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 4: that's I live by that still, you. 598 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: Know what I mean. Like, I'm living out my imagination. 599 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: I'm creating. 600 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 4: I stay curious and I think that allows me to 601 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 4: come up with these ideas and I work super hard 602 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 4: to get these things out into the world. So that 603 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 4: younger kid, man, just do what you Love's work hard. 604 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 4: I know it sounds cliche, but it's so true. Like 605 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 4: I feel all you got to sit in here right 606 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,479 Speaker 4: now because of that, right, Like you love what you 607 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 4: do and you dedicate yourself to it. Even watching you 608 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 4: likes to watch you on Instagram all the time to 609 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 4: see you up here. Now when you guys announce it, like, 610 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 4: that's super dope for you. So congrats to that. So 611 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 4: just just lock in and stay focused. 612 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 3: Now, what the sneak is it? The new Sneakers that 613 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 3: you're releasing. Yeah, it would come out on the sixteenth yep. 614 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 3: Now break sixteen is down. So the Fours of Jordan falls, 615 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 3: of course sold out crazy brick by brick was was 616 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 3: I guess your mentality if you had to do this, 617 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 3: brick by brick, you have. 618 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: To build this thing break by brick. 619 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 3: Man explain the new collapse. 620 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 4: These are the AJ one low better with times and 621 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 4: it's modeled. This is the second iteration of my first 622 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 4: aj one we had. We did the same exact shoe 623 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 4: in the high top and it was a cream colorway. 624 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 4: You see, like the distress marks here basically tell the 625 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 4: story of how my sneakers get distressed when I'm out 626 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 4: riding with them, so my bike has no breaks on them. 627 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: It's crazy, so I used my sneakers to stop. 628 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 8: I literally just noticed that the front of it is 629 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 8: already is like distress, but it looks like a design. 630 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 4: It decides to each and each shoe is it's hand distressed. 631 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 4: So no two shoes has the same distress mark, so no, 632 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 4: like no one has the same pair in a sense. 633 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: But yeah, it just tells. 634 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 4: It just tells the story of like things getting better 635 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 4: with time, you know, like when you dedicate yourself, when 636 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 4: you stay focused on something, like it gets better with time. 637 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 4: Right when like your favorite pair of jeans or your 638 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 4: favorite vintage T shirt or advantage car, you know. 639 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: What I mean? 640 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 4: Like those things get better with time. I really want 641 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 4: to tap into that. I feel I'm at this place 642 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 4: in my life right now. I've dedicated so much time 643 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,439 Speaker 4: to bike round and so much energy to it, and 644 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 4: it's only gotten better for me, And I feel like 645 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 4: we all have that thing that has gotten better with time. 646 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 3: When you do your deals with Jordan's, do you decide 647 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 3: what sneakers you want to do over or is it 648 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 3: one of those things you have to come to the table, 649 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 3: like if you say, yo, I want to do the concords. 650 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 2: Over or is it like how does that work? 651 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 3: Because I notice even with Jordan's some sneakers he ain't 652 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 3: doing over something he does. Even with the Jordan fays, 653 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 3: you don't really have too many people that do the 654 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 3: falls over. 655 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 2: So how do y'all. 656 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 3: Decide how y'all want to do it? Or how you 657 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 3: attack designing a sneaker? 658 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: For you, it's a collaborative effort, you know. 659 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 4: Sometimes it's like I'm I'm in a place where I 660 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 4: want to do a certain silhouette. Sometimes the brand is 661 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 4: like this is initiative for us, and it's a collaborate effort. 662 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 4: We come to the table, we'll decide what works for 663 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 4: everyone and take it from there. You know, this this 664 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 4: one in particular, we had We had designed it shortly 665 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 4: after my first one came out. 666 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: We assembled it. 667 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 4: So we had this in the chamber for years now, 668 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 4: and it was like, man, it's time to put it 669 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 4: out because I've been I've been wearing it for. 670 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: The past three years. It's like it's time to put 671 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: it out. So that's how it came about. 672 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 3: And what's your your dream Jordan sneaker that you would 673 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 3: love to do that? He was like, this is the 674 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 3: one I want to do over after this? 675 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 4: Oh man, there's so many I definitely wanted to do, 676 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 4: like a five or six or seventeen. 677 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: That's I think. 678 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, somebody got to show me that they don't want 679 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 5: to that the Mexican step. 680 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 9: Bad be wearing man, because you know it's a certain 681 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 9: number where they start buying them up off the shop 682 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,959 Speaker 9: like that, Okay, somebody seventeen right now. 683 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: They do. 684 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 7: But some of them are like the girls. 685 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 6: We have certain ones where it's like they're all basketball things, 686 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 6: but we like, I wear these, but I don't know 687 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 6: if I would wear the seventeens, I would know how. 688 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: To you might, I don't know. It's just about styling 689 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: them the right way. 690 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 5: You gotta do a twelve eleven or. 691 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: Was fired to eleven? Fire two? Yeah? 692 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 6: Whoever shots your shot to try and redo one of 693 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 6: them in a brand is like you can't touch that. 694 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 4: One, nah, And I hope that never happens. 695 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 5: She's the queen of speaking things. 696 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: Listen, like we're in We're in a very good place 697 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: right now. 698 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 9: Man. 699 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 4: We've put out this is the fourth shoe I've put 700 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,959 Speaker 4: out in the past year, and the streets have been 701 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 4: loving all of the clops so far. 702 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: So hoping that we continue on that trajectory. 703 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 8: Even about your shoe that you got now the A 704 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 8: A J one, Man, you say how you use your 705 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 8: shoe to stop themselves, because you you know, shoes have 706 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,719 Speaker 8: come a long way, like you actually have like a 707 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 8: distressed shoe. I used to what my son and for messing. 708 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: Up ahead. 709 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 8: Breaks on his bike and he was still stopping. So 710 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 8: it's so dope that you're doing that. Like that's dope 711 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 8: because yo, kids, shoes are expensive, especially for y'all boys. Man, 712 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 8: Like when all your feet grow big at a faster 713 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 8: pace and I ain't about to be So I'm gonna 714 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 8: buy some distressed as shoes for my son so he ain't. 715 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: Got the It's actually good. 716 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 4: It's actually a good thought though, right because not mess 717 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 4: and now we're something sneakers that come. 718 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 2: Distressed, you should have commercial. 719 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: Commercial. 720 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 4: It's also interesting too because the first one we did 721 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 4: that came distressed, it was one of the first shoes 722 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 4: I think it was the first shoe that Jordan Brands 723 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 4: ever done that has come pre distressed. So that also 724 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 4: like set off a wave of a lot of distressed shoes. 725 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: Coming after it. 726 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 8: How did you partner with m t A. How did 727 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 8: that come about? That's big to me? 728 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 2: Exactly, we gotta get this guy with us. 729 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 5: You're the ambassador for the m t a's ride and 730 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 5: so crazy. 731 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: They hit. My line was like, we're trying to do something. 732 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 5: I love it. 733 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: No, but no like that. The current campaign that's running 734 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: with the m t A. It's meaningful. 735 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 4: There are a lot of kids that are getting hurt 736 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 4: because they're subway serving and it's super dangerous. Over Fourth 737 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 4: of July we've seen some unfortunately things happened. So when 738 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 4: Anti approached me, so listen, we like we're facing this issue, 739 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 4: would love to partner with you to combat this issue 740 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 4: off like one hundred percent. 741 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: I believe in it. 742 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 4: And we launched the campaign what like two months ago, 743 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 4: ready a month ago, about two months. 744 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: Ago Alive and stay inside rights, Stay alive. 745 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 4: So no, it's dope, man, And for me it's I 746 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 4: grew up taking the train from Queens to the city 747 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 4: to go ride like the Brooklyn Banks and meeting with 748 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 4: my friends. So now to have the opportunity to partner 749 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 4: with the MTA on a very positive initiative, man, it 750 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 4: means a lot to me. 751 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 3: What was the biggest obstacle you faced throughout your whole 752 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 3: career with everything that you did ride, What was the 753 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 3: biggest obstacle, the biggest problem? 754 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 4: I think I'm still facing that. It's just educating people 755 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 4: on what BMX is, you know, and continuing to set 756 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 4: the stage for it and like open the door per se. 757 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 4: You know, there's still a lot of people who don't 758 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 4: know what it is or don't respect it in the 759 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 4: way that it should be. So just educating people on 760 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 4: what BMX is and like showing the world, like how 761 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 4: powerful the bicycle is, you know, always say the bicycle 762 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 4: is the most accessible motor transportation in the world. Anywhere 763 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 4: you go in the world, you'll see someone riding the bicycle. 764 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 4: You can't go outside without seeing it. So I think 765 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 4: there's so much power to unlock. And that's what that's 766 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 4: the mission I'm on right now. 767 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 2: Do you consider yourself an athlete? 768 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 3: Some people feel like an athlete is a basketball player, 769 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 3: but they haven't seen some of the ships y'all be doing, 770 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 3: because that should be athletic. 771 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 4: I mean, listen, like there's so much training that like 772 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 4: like goes into it. I was having a conversation yesterday 773 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 4: I was doing this interview. I was like, like in 774 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 4: my younger days, I didn't consider myself an athlete, like 775 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 4: prior to going pro, but once I went pro. I 776 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 4: got also signed to Gatorade like shortly after going pro, 777 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 4: and they have a sports science institution in Chicago where 778 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 4: like they'll bring athletes in and like pretty much test 779 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 4: like your reaction and you're stamming the all of the things. 780 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 4: And I went there and I spent the whole day 781 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 4: there doing these different tests. Right like again, they had 782 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 4: me on a treadmill. They have these tubes coming out 783 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 4: like whatever, and my results was like, man, like your 784 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 4: body is working just as hard as a basketball player 785 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 4: or a football player. You're doing like you're on the 786 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 4: same level as that. And that's when it hit me. 787 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 4: I was like, oh no, yeah, like I'm legitimate athlete. Yeah, 788 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 4: like my like vehicle is different. I mean, I'm like, 789 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 4: my body operates in a different way, but I'm one 790 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 4: hundred percent athlete first and foremost. 791 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: For sure. 792 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 3: There you have it, man, make sure you pick up 793 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 3: his sneak up that comes out on the sixteenth and 794 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 3: tell them about Go Ride again this weekend. 795 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 4: Listen, Go Ride twenty twenty five is happening this weekend. 796 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 4: We're here in New York, Miami and Mexico City. Go 797 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 4: on my Instagram at Nijer Sevester for all the details. 798 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 2: And people got to write show they could just pull up. 799 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: They can pull up and register when you get there 800 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 1: to sign a little waver going. 801 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 4: We're gonna ride out to have a really good time. 802 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 4: You're starting in New York this weekend, Starting New York 803 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 4: this weekend. 804 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: Borrow in Manhattan, Manhattan, Manhattan. 805 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 4: We're gonna do fifteen miles and then we jump on 806 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 4: the jet and go down to Miami. 807 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 2: But you're not the jet jet about to go by 808 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 2: bike and I was trying to jump on the jet 809 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 2: just about. Hey fly right off now, and queens, is 810 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 2: she trying to get the. 811 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 7: Okay, start sweating. We don't want to talk about what 812 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 7: starts going man, this is me. 813 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. Make sure you follow him and go ride. 814 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 3: And we appreciate you and I love the fact that 815 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,239 Speaker 3: represent the Burrow all the time. 816 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: Big Queen shout out to big queen. 817 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 2: Queens get the money, thanks Nigel Sylvester. 818 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,439 Speaker 1: It's the breakfast club. 819 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 2: Good morning every day. 820 00:34:58,840 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: A week ago. 821 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 2: Your ass up the breakfast club. 822 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:02,839 Speaker 1: You're finished for y'all. 823 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,720 Speaker 2: Dumb mhm