Two out of the five people interviewed in last week’s thing about choosing music mentioned how Nirvana isn’t the easiest thing to pull off. That hasn’t stopped either of them from trying, or affected the recent spike in people slipping Kurt and the boyz into edits, e.g. check the first song in that Johnny Wilson video from two weeks ago.
This brought us to another hypothetical QS water cooler conversation A.K.A. having adult beverages after giving up on skating: in our time of increased societal anxiety, why has the 1990s’ other icon of musical angst been so under-utilized in skate videos? Basically, why does barely anybody ever try skating to 2Pac?
There’s no shortage of edits to Big L songs uploaded every “Summer Trip To New York” season. T.J. skated to Biggie in the encore to his “BLESSED” part. That one guy on Shake Junt just skated to three Pimp C songs in a single part. Eazy E was the first rapper who skated, so that goes without saying. And skaters love 2Pac — there’s a fucking 2Pac x Primitive collab (…and Skate Mental board …and a DGK board) — except for a dude who recorded something in the ballpark of seven million songs during his short time on earth, you’re more likely to see someone skating in a Pac t-shirt than actually skating to his music. The 2Pac results on SkateVideoSite’s song search feature aren’t empty, but are mostly cheesy remixes where they mash him up with Biggie, and Berrics “Trickipedia” videos.
The lazy answer we arrived at was that skating to 2Pac was bold. Some casual research revealed that’s not actually the case, since some of the best usage in the distant past has actually been pretty tongue-in-cheek: the Lee Dupont part in Chomp On This (the video whose ethos still inhabits every “you guys actually like this song!?”-comment left on the QS YouTube), the R.I.P. Wilshire Rails section from Bake & Destroy, and one of the Decenzo brothers sharing a part with Sacha Daly to “2 Of Americaz Most Wanted.”
And even so, skaters love a bold song. There’s like fourteen ender parts full of kinked rails, screams and thrown boards being edited to Pink Floyd as you read this. The only semi-serious, good Pac part we can recall is Malcom Watson in the 1998 Arcade video, Gumbo (and kind of Ellington’s in Baker Has A Deathwish…though it’s one of those aforementioned posthumous remixes obvs.) This isn’t exactly a challenge for Ty Evans to edit Nyjah’s next part to “Only God Could Judge Me” — just writing to point out a peculiar hole in the lineage of skate video #musicsupervision, especially when most other pockets of nineties rap have been mined into depletion.
Previously: Heavy Airplay All Day With No Chorus
So Snack – basically what you’re saying is that, when choosing music, riders should have more ambition.
His voice dominates the song, skating to loud speech
it’s hopefully because any tupac song is actual trash
Heelflip BS Noseslide: V rare bird
“…how Nirvana isn’t the easiest thing to pull off.”
Never forgetti: Ryan Smith’s “Dying To Live” part
The people will never forgive the Frankhouse #LOTM snub, Snack! The people want this post edited!
this wouldnt have been a 2pac song/part if Max B version of this was around at the time..
Has anyone ever skated to Kendrick Lamar or Freddie Gibbs???
ah yes, the old “because *popular musician’s* sucks” take from a random stranger on the internet
Bro I’m not exactly sure Kendrick + Gibbs fall into that “tentpole of 90s angst” music Nirvana and 2Pac do
@not an idiot yeah, but im saying in general. I can’t think of anyone using their music even though both kendrick and gibbs seem like their music would fit well in a video part.
Brandon Taylor of Seattle skated to “can’t c me” by 2pac and it’s arguably the best use of 2pac in a skate video ever. YouTube it, thrasher posted it a couple years back, really worth watching.
Can you post a link to the Brandon Taylor Tupac part? I cannot find it.
Can you post a link to the Brandon Taylor Tupac part? I cannot find it.
Immediately thought of this — https://youtu.be/anFHRaEfRfk
incredible
doesn’t pass the “good” filter, but worth it for the ghetto glamor shot followed up with Canadian rural history
Tupac and Nirvana, like colored wheels and bad haircuts, can stay on the west coast where they belong
@Style Matters – that is a searing-hot take and I appreciate you for it.
Hibachi!
Seriously, Tupac was not popular in the “skateboards world” in the 90. Nobody listen to that wast coast bullshit. That the true. It was ok to said the word Tupac arround 2002.
made me lol
Yo i agree
“Wast side!”