INTERVIEWS

Cam’ron Hangs Out With the Escobar Family for “Medellin”

Published

3 years ago

May 13, 2020

While Jim Jones’s album takes the title, Cam’ron’s Purple Haze 2 was definitely in our top five of last year. Cam dropped a video for “Meddelin” this afternoon, which was shot down in Columbia with Pablo Escobar’s family. It doesn’t get more next level than that. Cam breaks down how it came together in this new interview with Complex. He also mentions that his long-awaited A-Trak collaboration album was supposed to be dropping this spring, but got put on hold due to the pandemic.

You’ve been talking about the A-Trak project for awhile.
Yeah. It’s been going on for years. My schedule, A-Trak’s schedule is crazy. It’s really dope. It’s been a couple years since we were supposed to put this out, but we always meet up in the studio two or three times a year to see what songs that we did were outdated or what newer music we could come up with.

Some of the stuff that we did is timeless as fine wine, baby. It isn’t going nowhere. But some of the stuff that we talk about—I’m not saying that this is a particular bar or anything like that, but we can’t be like, “My president, Barack Obama…” So we’ll go through all the music and make sure everything is straight. But knowing A-Trak, and even knowing myself, I know we’re going to get back in the studio when time permits and make sure everything is up to par and acceptable for the time when it’s supposed to come out.

That will definitely be fire when it hits the streets. Check the “Medellin” visual above.

INTERVIEWS

‘Good Work’ Episode Features Lisa Whitaker and Meow Skateboards

Published

2 months ago

September 23, 2022

Skate Newswire

Skater Lisa Whitaker narrated how she started Meow Skateboards in this episode of “Good Work”.

She also related how she got introduced to skateboarding and how she founded Girls Skate Network in 2003.

Whitaker started her skateboard company in 2012. Now, Meow has more than a dozen talents including Vanessa Torres, Mariah Duran and Kristin Ebeling.

“Lisa has always been the catalyst for women skateboarding”, says Torres who was one of the first skaters to join Meow’s roster.

Produced by Red Bull, the Good Work series features skater-owned and operated businesses.

INTERVIEWS

Monster Energy’s Aspire-Inspire Episode Features Mami Tezuka

Published

3 months ago

August 31, 2022

Skate Newswire

Get to know more about Mami Tezuka in this episode of Aspire-Inspire by Monster Energy.

Surrounded by skaters growing up, Mami showed interest in skateboarding at around the age of three.

She started participating in competitions abroad in 2017. In 2021, she won silver in the X Games Women’s Skateboarding part. She landed third place in X Games Chiba 2022.

Fellow Monster Energy rider and friend Lizzie Armanto describes Mami as easy-going, fun to be around, and inspiring. “When I’m around her, I want to push myself better,”

Tezuka admits that she enjoys filming video parts more enjoyable than participating in contests.

“Competition is kind of stressful for me”, Mami said. But added that she does enjoy seeing everyone at contests.

“Filming part is more fun for me…it doesn’t to be hard, tricky trick, but you can see the style and progress of the skating”, explained Mami.

I want to inspire girl skaters and young people. Do what you love and then don’t be afraid to be yourself.
Mami tezuka

Aspire-Inspire is a mini-documentary series by Monster Energy. Previous episodes featured Aurelien Giraud, Kelvin Hoefler, Rune Glifberg, Ayumu Hirano, Nyjah Huston, and Matt Berger.

INTERVIEWS

The Nine Club Features Elliot Sloan

Published

3 months ago

August 24, 2022

Skate Newswire

Elliot Sloan narrated how he injured his neck while doing a 900 and his other worst slams on the ramp in this episode of The Nine Club podcast.

He also talked about getting into vert and then mega ramp, building his own vert and mini mega ramp in his own backyard, and hosting the X Games in his backyard among other things in the two-hour podcast.

Sloan is a four-time X Games Big Air gold medalist. In the recent X Games held in his backyard, he landed second place in the debut of the Mega Ramp category and first in the Skateboard Vert Best Trick.