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Because I came late to skateboarding, I wasn’t tied up with this common image of Ray Barbee as a ‘cult’ skateboarder, a legend from the Powell days. Truth is, my mental image of Ray, prior to meeting him, is that one no-comply over some trash can in some Transworld video. Period.
And of course the music, which I discovered by avidly looking for whatever was related to Tommy Guerrero‘s production. It would be amusing if not shameful to say that my knowledge of Tommy is along similar lines.
Interview and photos by …

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Fergus Murphy on Steinski / Illustration Max

Enter the teleport! It’s back in the day, as they used to say; New York 1983 and the pioneering hip hop label Tommy Boy Records needs to get some movement on one of their new releases. The tune is “Play that beat (Mr. DJ)” by G.L.O.B.E and Whiz Kid, and they decide to have a remix competition. Destiny draws a line across town connecting with a pair of music nuts who do clubs like religion. Douglas di Franco, a successful audio engineer, and Steve …

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I had hosted a public interview with Hank Shocklee in Dublin for the Red Bull Music Academy. And to answer all the questions left unanswered I was on the phone in a locked bedroom as the kids scurried around a little crazy in the daily run up to dinner time.
That talk in Dublin took in the old days in the cauldron of hip hop and the birth and rise of one of the greatest and most influential hip hop groups of all time, Public Enemy.
PE were produced and arranged by …

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This is simply beautiful. David Carvalho is a graphic artist/designer from Portugal who runs a small website called Hellokarpa. He specializes in visual identities and ads for print but just recently he launched his web shop selling–most interestingly–skateboard decks. And they’re simply beautiful. Check it ouwt!

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Ian Stevenson is probably the funniest illustrator of the year, his shit makes me LOL all over the place, but it’s also a bit scary, kind of like clowns are scary, sure the drawings are funny but they hint at something darker and way more fucked up. At least that’s what I get. Oh yea THE PLUG: you can check his work in bitchslap 7, and if you like it you can win the book as well. His site is also worth a look if you’re into laughing that …

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Yea, so we basically got a bunch of our favorite photographers to send us their favorite photos, along with a few words about it. If you like words as much or even more than pictures then you can see it all in BITCHSLAP 5 online. Thanks, go skate.