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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Click up the breakfast clubs. Y'all morning everybody. It's DJ Envy,
just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We are the breakfast club law La Rosa is here
as well, and we got a special guest in the building,
Pro BMX biker athlete. Brothers from Queens, Nigel sevest of
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome, Big Queens, Big Queens in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Incredible? Incredible God will met this morning, so I feel great.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now we get when we get brothers like you.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I like to start from the beginning of how right.
So you're from Laurelton, Queens, which is north side, which
is the same side of Queens. I'm from him from
Queens Village, and growing up in Queens, we all rode bikes, right,
but we didn't ride to the caliber of that you
rode for. We rode to go to the park, We
rode to go to the store, to bodega, to go
to White Castle, to go to.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Those places.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Right, guys, the Brooklyn kids from trying to steal our
bikes all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But you you took a different round.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So start with you growing.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Up in Queens and how you got into BMX biking
and taking it serious.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I mean, just like you said right, like we grew
up riding bikes in that capacity to get from pointy
to point B. For me, it was like during that
pointy to point B, I was like, I want to
jump off this curve. I want to pop up Willie
or like I was curious in that way and that
just man, it took me down a route of like okay,
like how far can I take this right? Like how
how many steps can I jump down? I want to
grind this bench over here? And once I started to
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discover that you can do it professionally, I was like, oh,
this is what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I was sold after that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But what got you into that? Because grown up in Queens,
you know, sometimes we idolize basketball players because we see him, right,
we see Mark Jackson from Queens.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Stevenson and all these other people.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We see rappers run DMC tribe called Quaz fifty and
whoever it was, we seen him DJ's jam Master j
Klue myself. But what got you in to say, you
know what I can do this professionally? Was what were
you watching and says I want to do this.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I've seen it on TV, right, seen X games on TV,
seeing guys like Dave Mirror and Matt Hoffman and Ryan Niquist,
and these guys.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Were flying through the air.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
They had their helmets on and their chest protectors and
all the stickers on their bikes, and it was super
cool to me.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I was just intrigued. I was like, damn, look that
looks dope.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And of course, like I would see like basketball players
on TV and rappers as you mentioned, that was dope
to me as well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But it was something about bike riding that it just
clicked for me.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It was different. How old were you when you really
started taking it serious?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I was like twelve years old.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
And I just always have a big imagination as well, right,
Like I'm just living on my imagination still. But even then,
I was like, man, like, it's something about this bike
that I'm thinking about different things that I want to do,
and I'm going outside and trying it in real time, right,
just figuring it out.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Like I would take like an old.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Tire and a board and make a MT and like
go back thirty forty feet and just pedal.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
As fast as I can hit that ramp. And fly
through the air.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
And it was something about that feeling of flying through
the air that became like just like adrenaline rush for me.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I remember that.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
You built like you would build a ramp.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh yeah, building ramps.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, I'm going to like Saint Clair's Park and the
school that I'm grinding on, like marble ledges and whatnot,
and and then I could find a jump on my bike,
I would do it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Now you're also from Caribbean descent.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, So what did.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Your Caribbean parents say when you say, Ma, I want
you to ride bikes? And the bikes that you're talking
about are not the bikes from TSS tar Ya and
those type of stores. You had professional bike with professional
pegs them. Bikes were a lot of money back in.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
How did that work?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Man?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Like my mom she didn't really like to watch me
ride like any mind. She was like, I don't want
you to see hurt yourself, like I'm afraid for you,
and things of that nature. But the thing that she
did that I that I applaud her for that she
gave me the freedom to go out and try, you
know what I mean. Like she may have not wanted
to watch me do it because she was afraid of me,
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like hurting myself, but she let me go out in
the neighborhood and do my thing and let me hang
out with other kids who rode bikes and whatnot, so
like that was what that was. And when I turned pro,
like she didn't really understand it at first, but it
took her a minute, but once she got it, she's like, okay,
cool and it was in the full support of it.
So shout out to Mama Sylvester.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
You've been working with Nike for over a decade now, right, Yeah,
it's been how.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Long it's been over fifteen years? Now?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
How old were you when you started working with them?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I was eighteen, so yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Was that before you were pro?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was right after?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Okay, gotcha? Because I was going to ask because when
you were a kid, I saw an interview. Did you
talked about when you were a kid? Nike was just
sending you stuff and I was wondering, like, at what point,
because you know, social media is it's not new, but
like people understanding how to use social media and you're
laying You're like, you're one of the people that I
think people look at because we don't really know too
much about black BMX bike riders.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
How did you know that? Like do what you do
to attract the brands that young for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So BMX has like a proper industry, right, Like they're like,
there's a.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Way to turn pro like in that way, it's pretty
much like it's either you ride contests and sponsors would
see you like at these contests, or you can be
a free rider, which is like creating content I would
say would be the equivalent and like putting that content
out into the world. And I took the free ride route,
where like I didn't ride in contest, didn't care for that.
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Those contests never really came to like New York City
and extremely unconventional, extremely and I was actually on a tour.
We went down to North Carolina to meet Dave Mirror,
who was the dude, the not dude, but the athlete,
the legend that gave me my first shot to turn pro.
And when I and when I met him, he just
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like a liking to me. And at this point in time,
like I would compare Dave Mirror, he's like Michael Jordan
to be a X riding, you know what I mean.
So we were down there met him He's like, Yo,
I'm starting this brand. I want I want to sign
you to the brand name of the brand the brands
called Miracle Bikes. So he ended up signing me to
the brand maybe four months after meeting him. And while
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also on that trip, I met a gentleman by the
name of Mark Closi. Mark Closi would end up going
on to be the team manager of the Nike BMX program.
So shortly after signing with Dave Mirror, Mark Closi was like, cool, like,
I'm at Nike now I'm going to sign you. So
I literally signed a turn pro and signed to Miracle
Bikes at Nike all within the year turning eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Was there any pressure for yourself?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because I know, growing up, even watching television in the
X Games, there wasn't too many black people doing it, right,
so now you are kind of the black guy that
does it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is there any pressure.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Knowing that all these kids are looking up to you
because you are the one that looks like me, You're
the one that looks like my brother, You're the one
that came from the place that I came. Is there
any pressure with that?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No, Because there were black BMX athletes on a professional
level before me, you know, and a lot of come
after me. I'm just doing my thing. Honestly, I don't
feel any pressure for me. It's a far ast pressure
for that. For me, it's more I put the pressure
myself to be the best. That's what it matters to
me at this point, Like I'm here for a reason
and I want to leave a mark that will stand
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into the test of time.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You were probably one of the first that really mixed
the culture together, right because usually when you see a
BMX biker, you'd be like, that's not me. I liked
what they're doing, but that doesn't represent me, or if
you see somebody like ah, he doesn't wear what I wear.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
But you were totally different.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Like you you were the I don't want to say
the hip hop be a Mex biker, but you were
the hip hop biker.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Like you were the one that was like this, like
me listen.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
To music I listened to So explain that a little
bit in that breakdown.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I mean, I think it's similar to what you just said, right,
Like we grew up not too far from one another,
so that was the environment, you know what I mean,
Like I'm watching like my older brothers, whatnot come through
the block and rimmed up Maximus and lexusis and whatnot,
and like I'm watching music videos on TV and I'm
going to the Coliseum block to go shop to go
by jerseys and warm up suits and fitted hats.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'll come from that.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
So when I turned and pro even just like being
X writer in general, I naturally mix those two things
together because it's just that's just who I was.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That was, but who I am, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
So that's why it looks like That's why it comes
across like that, and it comes across real. It's not
like for store, I'm not living outside myself or doing
something that's not me.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Was it difficult for you because during that time, it
was a lot of bmx's.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Were so crossover, right, they were so Ara.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Crime being fitched, but you weren't. So was it difficult
to get deals and difficult to get placements in places
you need to be because you weren't like the rest
of them.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I definitely felt friction at times, and especially within the
industry right at a certain point in time. And she
was like, oh, like you're trying to be a rap
or like you're too hip hop for us.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And I was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Like this is who I am, so I think it
took them a minute to get that. But what's also
interesting though, it was like for me coming up, I'm
watching BMX videos and guys are using rap songs and
things that nature in these songs. Again, like there were
black BMX riders or riders of color way before me. Right,
I just took it to another level, right when you
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see me in a music video, where asat ferg and
people are just like whoa, that's different. But at the
same time, like riding BMX bikes you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Like we cool know that. Oh yeah, bur grab bikes.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
It was in one of my first videos back I
think it was like two thousand and eight, thousand and
nine or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's even started rapping.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
You want to tell his fashion too, he dresses a
lot Like yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I mean, like, it's just it's part of what we do. Right,
Just because you ride bikes doesn't mean that we're not
into other things. It means that that doesn't mean that
we're confined to one space, right, I mean like not
like it's just part of what we do growing up
in the hood.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Like you ride bikes, you know what I mean, And.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
As good as you make it look relatable though, because
I mean you make it more relatable because although bikers
do more than just ride bikes to some kids, some
kids me think that's like a category where it's like, uh,
you know, not like like for instance, nast you don't
see a lot of black Nascar drivers.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
So to your point, like what you do, you make
it look more accessible and more relatable to like somebody
growing up in Queens Now or Brooklyn or whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know, And that's and that's super important to me though,
right Like I want kids from those neighborhoods to know
that they can do this too, you know what I mean,
Like why not, you know, like just because you're from
a certain neighborhood or from a certain environment a certain situation,
doesn't mean that you have to be confined to only
doing certain things, you know, so like.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Like wrapping or playing basketball, that's too.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We can do way more. We can do way way more.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Talk about a little bit about brand trust, because one
of the things I thought was interesting, like in your packaging,
because Nike is very particular with their brand, but they
let you do the bike over the night, and I
know that you also had that on a shoe, like
one of your first shoes you did.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
But Jordan's right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, I love it cooler.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Look yeah, but.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
It's fire right even so, like if y'all I was
really researching yesterday because I'm I think what you do
is so fire. But if you look closely, there's like
a distorted text on this right. Nike, you don't play
about their branding. How was it for you? Was it
your idea to say, hey, can we do the Nike
as bike And were they just down or did they
come to you with that?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So what I did my first AJ one, my first
collaboration with Jordan Brand was in twenty and seventeen, and
that's when the idea sparked. I remember I was sitting
in like the Energy design room looking at one of
the reference shoes that we were using now, looking at
the label just like this. I'm like, man, would be
so cool if we just turned into it. B And
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at that point in time, we were like, no way,
they'll like let us do it. So we just sat
on the idea. And this is when I was still
signed to the Nike side of the business. I signed
to the Jordan brand side of the business in twenty
twenty one, and the first shoe I worked on when
I signed to the Jordan Brent side of the business,
it was a friends and family shoe. It was a
Nike airship, which is the first shoe that MJ. Wallden
came into the league before the AJ one. And because
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it was a friends OF's family shoe, I was like, yoh,
maybe they'll let us do it now. So we did
it and then once we posted it online it went crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I think it was because of.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
The concept made so much sense, right, Like people have
watched me on my bike in the air or my
entire career, right, so when you take something like that
and then you you bring it together with bike air
and it's like, oh, it just makes so much sense.
That's why it just took off. And now like all
the shoes that I'm doing and have bike on it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Do you like resellers reselling your sneakers and not? Because
some of it, like the brick by bricks it was
like World War two out here.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yes, it's almost impossible to find.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
You like that or no? Because how do you benefit
from resellers?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's part of the culture.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
This is part of the culture, you know, like the
fact that people want to pay two, three, four times
over like the real retail price for the shoe. It
just says that. I mean, like they love the problem. U.
They relate to the story. It has equity in it,
you know what I mean. The resell game is the
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whole It's the whole industry, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Like people.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Feed themselves and feed their families off that game. So
shout out to the resellers. Man, do y'all think.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I was reading something where it says, you know, when
you were a kid, when most kids would go into
Green Acres Mall or the coliseum, you wanted to get
on the train and.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Go to Soho.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, what was so special about Manhattan and Soho during
that time? That was like you was like, nah, I
don't want to do what y'all doing. I want to
kind of do my own thing.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Right, And that was probably like tenth eleventh grade. I
started to do that.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So my mom worked in the city, so when I
was a kid, she would take me to the city
to her job.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So she taught me how to ride the train right,
and at a certain point, just like man like I
don't want.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
To dress like everybody else. So I started to go
further out to get pieces or clothes or things that
no one else had. So I would go to like Supreme,
and I remember going to Supreme to by like my
first naked dunks, like I think it was the T nineteens.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was all blue Nike.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Dunk and nowhere on the ave had them, no where
green nakeds had them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And it was that thing. It was.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
It was having pieces, having sneakers that no one else had,
you know what I mean. You know, you come back
to the hood rock or something no knows Scott like, yo,
you get those from.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So that was the thing for me.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Is somebody think you got it from Canal Street. That's
the first thing somebody said we ain't got.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
But you look at the game now and that's just normal, right,
Like kids are leaving whatever, going to wherever to get
the pieces that no one have, or to have them,
to be to have that thing that none of your
people's got, you know, it's just part of the game.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Fly.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I also riding.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
When I was a kid riding, we didn't have helmets, right,
We didn't right, we didn't wear helmets, right, So what
was the worst injury that you've got rotten and what happened?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Asked this question?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Man, I think people look at BMX AND's like, man like,
it's like the most dangerous thing.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Corn b.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's just as dangerous as any other sport. Right, think
about a running back coming through the line. Is ray
lewis right there ready to at.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Least he got some.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
You know when to expect it.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But the bike riding is like it could not happen,
but it could also happen.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
In singing to do something the other day and I'm like,
no disrespect, not get up there in age.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm like his body and he knee.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Pads that we like just dropped a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah, and this is like probably made to you, but
I was like, whoa, my knees.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Hurt washing, So what was the worst? The worst is.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I broke my wristle on my nineteenth birthday. Not like
that was terrible for me. It's my first major injury,
and from then it's just like bruises, you know what
I mean, Like my shins all jacked up. I've been
doing this for so long, Like any athlete, you get
to that point where it's like man, of course you
can experience injury.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's part of the game right until your point.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
But also like, yes, you like you know to expect
that you're gonna get hit when you're playing football, it's
the same thing, like but you're like you're trying not
to But the same thing with bike riding, right like
you're trying to land every single trick. You're not trying
to hurt yourself, right, And it's a it's a true
art form, right like if you don't just go out
and just jump off of something, like you work your
way up to that, right, So if you're trying to
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go jump down ten stairs, you're gonna try two first,
master that, then you go to four six, self on
and so on, And it's everything is very thoughtful, right Like,
it's not just like I'm wake up today and to
try like this thing I never tried before. No, like you,
it's calculated, right, It's all calculated and by and for
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me personally, being as calculated as I am, I have
I guess like limited the amount of injuries, and.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Of course by like the grace of God. But because
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
When you wake up in the month, you can be
like I can take the ferrari. So do you still
enjoy it? Like now I'm gonnake the bike and I
love it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Man, I got the bike in the back of the
wagon right now, you know what I mean, Like you
just pull up sometimes and you know case.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Jump down.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I still love it, man. I still enjoy going to
the skate park. I still love being out there finding spots,
challenging myself in that way, Like it's still my truest
form of self expression is being X riding.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know, is there a trick that you have not
mastered yet that you feel like, yo, I gotta do this.
This is on my bucket list, Like what is that
one trick that you're still trying to master.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
There's always a trick that is in my mind, right
because how I look at BMX riting too, right, like
everything is ridable.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
So I go outside in the world, I may see
a handrail that they just built whatever, like a year ago.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm like, I never I didn't ride that hand rat.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Like I'm a fuck this hand I don't want to
go hit that handrail. So it's always something that like
I want to do, you know what I mean? And
I love that, like that's still a desire.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Of mine, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Like again, I still love riding my bike, and I
still do as much as I possibly can. Yeah, my
business has grown and things have changed. I got different
responsibilities nowadays, but like riding is still at the core
of everything that I do.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You got locked up for it because I sometimes public place,
private place. You ever got locked up?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, I mean, you know, like I feel like there's
been times where being mixed riding has been misunderstood, and
I've been misunderstood. So we'll be riding a handrail or
riding a park or something and it's trespassing, you know
what I mean. And it's like at the end of
the day, we're just expressing ourselves, you know what I mean.
Like we're not hurting nobody, We're not doing no drugs,
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Like we're not being violent.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
We're just expressing ourselves. And yeah, so it's happened before
growing up.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
One thing I always tell people about, especially New York
skateboarders and bike riders, he said, y'all will fuck somebody up.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
There's a lot of times cars will cut you all off,
bump into y'all, And I'm like that is the worst
beef to have because they got their weapons that they're
riding on. Have you ever been in it's a situation
like that where car cut your love and be like, man,
we have to put this guy out.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I mean, it happens in New York City all the time,
right all the time, all the time. They don't care
what car lane whatever.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Because man, y'all don't respect us. Y'all got your own lane,
and y'all always.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Coming over bating, like you know, I'm like they.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Built lanes specifically for y'all.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like the lane too small.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Now let me go over here and try to jet
in front of this g wagon we need.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I'm trying to get the work, and you don't never
look to the right, turn into the left.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's there's a lot of like bike hating going on, right.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I understand, I'm not exercise.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Have you you from us and you ride bikes.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
And now getting.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Never and me post everything. I never seen you post
a bike.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Your thing is cars missed the car show man, You
ain't never I never see you on no damn bike.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I used to wear the outfit with the pattern in
my ass.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And oh yeah, yeah, he's so funny.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Christ Now talk about your partnership with McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
IVE seen that you used to work for McDonald's growing up,
and now they pay you not to work there and.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Just give you a break that down a little bit.
Is that incredible? Yeah? Yeah, mc Donald's was my first job.
I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I did two summers there and really I was just
saving up money to get new bikes and new bike parts,
you know what I mean. And then like once my
business started to roll, as far as me and being
a professional athlete, I decided I want to work with
brands that I can relate to, brands that are authentic
to me. And McDonald's been on the list for a
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long time and we just got the deal done like
two months ago.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
But it's incredible for me to be able to work
with brands like in the capacity that I do. That
I'm able to not just be a face of a
product or a campaign, but we're actually like collaborating on
ideas and putting products out and putting campaigns out like that.
That means a lot to me, you know, and also
it shows people that man like even me coming from
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the background I come from. As far as the BMX athlete,
non non traditional athlete. I can do these type of
things and play in these spaces.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And it looks good. It's not just like it's not wack,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Is there ever a celebrity now that like pops up
in your stuff and you're like, oh wow, I saw
Mooie Bets wear your cleats and then those are reselling
like crazy or resold like crazy.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But does anybody surprise you? At this point?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's all love.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
All of it is like surprising, you know, Like even
when before like the break Boy Bricks came out, I
think it was like Brown had them on and Roman
Rings had him on the same night, and I was
just like, damn, this is crazy, you know what I mean?
Like this product that that we collaborated on and created
and put into the world, like people are really gravitating
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towards it. So yeah, I feel like I saw just
love and like I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
You know, is there fire that like you know, even
these these are fire, I'm still trying to get them.
Your man gonna come in here with them on, But
shout out to you. You also have your go Ride festival.
Would you call it a festivals?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
It's not a festival yet, but it's just like it's
an international bike ride.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
I think it's dope. And I see that you have
expanded it to Mexico City. Yes, what made you want
to do that?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You're in Mexico.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
See, my husband is Mexican and black. He's not really
full bread Mexican. But they always wing ride on that
because you.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Know, because they ride bikes.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
So what made you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Expand comment on that? No, So this is thirty annual
Go Ride. The last two years we did London to
New York right, and for anyone who doesn't know what
Go Ride is, it is my international bike ride where
we hit multiple cities within twenty four hours. So this
show is like, man like, I want to take a
different route and we want to extend it to three cities.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So we're doing Mexico.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We're doing New York, Miami and Mexico City within thirty
hours and I'll be in all three cities we do.
We do a fifteen mile bike around in each of
those cities. So I'm super excited for people are getting
their bikes ready. It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Do you join something like that? How does that like?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
So you how do you like get other bike riders
around the world to do that, like.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Just pull up. Were just promoted and is listen to
everyone's welcome to pull up.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
So you're going to be an envy.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well this weekend this I would be in Houston this
week but definitely would I would love to go same house.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
No, exactly, It's not even that bad.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Honestly, we have we have people from all walks of life,
like kids, middle age, everything.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Like people are pulling up and riding.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Like when you're in that pack with so many kids
riding bikes, that energy is so contagious, right, Like it's
not like you're on a bike ride by yourself, like
you had kids popping whillies and doing bunny hops and
music kids too. Not how it's it's amazing. It's like
it's nothing else like it. So yeah, I mean, I'm
looking forward to this weekend. If you guys in New
York City pop out this weekend to go ride, or
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if you're in Miami or Mexico City, will definitely be
out in the streets.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What would you tell that that younger kid right now
that that's watching you, that wants to get into BMX
bike and his parents probably be like, that's not a
real job.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Get a real job.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
What would you tell that younger kid right now?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I would tell them to show your parents my Instagram
and showing that it is a real thing.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Also, man, just do what you love, honestly, bro, Like
that's I live by that still, you.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Know what I mean. Like, I'm living out my imagination.
I'm creating.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I stay curious and I think that allows me to
come up with these ideas and I work super hard
to get these things out into the world. So that
younger kid, man, just do what you Love's work hard.
I know it sounds cliche, but it's so true. Like
I feel all you got to sit in here right
now because of that, right, Like you love what you
do and you dedicate yourself to it. Even watching you
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likes to watch you on Instagram all the time to
see you up here. Now when you guys announce it, like,
that's super dope for you. So congrats to that. So
just just lock in and stay focused.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Now, what the sneak is it? The new Sneakers that
you're releasing. Yeah, it would come out on the sixteenth yep.
Now break sixteen is down. So the Fours of Jordan falls,
of course sold out crazy brick by brick was was
I guess your mentality if you had to do this,
brick by brick, you have.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
To build this thing break by brick.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Man explain the new collapse.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
These are the AJ one low better with times and
it's modeled. This is the second iteration of my first
aj one we had. We did the same exact shoe
in the high top and it was a cream colorway.
You see, like the distress marks here basically tell the
story of how my sneakers get distressed when I'm out
riding with them, so my bike has no breaks on them.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's crazy, so I used my sneakers to stop.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
I literally just noticed that the front of it is
already is like distress, but it looks like a design.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
It decides to each and each shoe is it's hand distressed.
So no two shoes has the same distress mark, so no,
like no one has the same pair in a sense.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But yeah, it just tells.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
It just tells the story of like things getting better
with time, you know, like when you dedicate yourself, when
you stay focused on something, like it gets better with time.
Right when like your favorite pair of jeans or your
favorite vintage T shirt or advantage car, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What I mean?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Like those things get better with time. I really want
to tap into that. I feel I'm at this place
in my life right now. I've dedicated so much time
to bike round and so much energy to it, and
it's only gotten better for me, And I feel like
we all have that thing that has gotten better with time.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
When you do your deals with Jordan's, do you decide
what sneakers you want to do over or is it
one of those things you have to come to the table,
like if you say, yo, I want to do the concords.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Over or is it like how does that work?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Because I notice even with Jordan's some sneakers he ain't
doing over something he does. Even with the Jordan fays,
you don't really have too many people that do the
falls over.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So how do y'all.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Decide how y'all want to do it? Or how you
attack designing a sneaker?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
For you, it's a collaborative effort, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Sometimes it's like I'm I'm in a place where I
want to do a certain silhouette. Sometimes the brand is
like this is initiative for us, and it's a collaborate effort.
We come to the table, we'll decide what works for
everyone and take it from there. You know, this this
one in particular, we had We had designed it shortly
after my first one came out.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We assembled it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
So we had this in the chamber for years now,
and it was like, man, it's time to put it
out because I've been I've been wearing it for.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The past three years. It's like it's time to put
it out. So that's how it came about.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And what's your your dream Jordan sneaker that you would
love to do that? He was like, this is the
one I want to do over after this?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Oh man, there's so many I definitely wanted to do,
like a five or six or seventeen.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
That's I think.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, somebody got to show me that they don't want
to that the Mexican step.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Bad be wearing man, because you know it's a certain
number where they start buying them up off the shop
like that, Okay, somebody seventeen right now.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They do.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
But some of them are like the girls.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
We have certain ones where it's like they're all basketball things,
but we like, I wear these, but I don't know
if I would wear the seventeens, I would know how.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
To you might, I don't know. It's just about styling
them the right way.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
You gotta do a twelve eleven or.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Was fired to eleven? Fire two? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Whoever shots your shot to try and redo one of
them in a brand is like you can't touch that.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
One, nah, And I hope that never happens.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
She's the queen of speaking things.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Listen, like we're in We're in a very good place
right now.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
We've put out this is the fourth shoe I've put
out in the past year, and the streets have been
loving all of the clops so far.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So hoping that we continue on that trajectory.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Even about your shoe that you got now the A
A J one, Man, you say how you use your
shoe to stop themselves, because you you know, shoes have
come a long way, like you actually have like a
distressed shoe. I used to what my son and for messing.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Up ahead.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Breaks on his bike and he was still stopping. So
it's so dope that you're doing that. Like that's dope
because yo, kids, shoes are expensive, especially for y'all boys. Man,
Like when all your feet grow big at a faster
pace and I ain't about to be So I'm gonna
buy some distressed as shoes for my son so he ain't.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Got the It's actually good.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
It's actually a good thought though, right because not mess
and now we're something sneakers that come.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Distressed, you should have commercial.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Commercial.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It's also interesting too because the first one we did
that came distressed, it was one of the first shoes
I think it was the first shoe that Jordan Brands
ever done that has come pre distressed. So that also
like set off a wave of a lot of distressed shoes.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Coming after it.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
How did you partner with m t A. How did
that come about? That's big to me?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Exactly, we gotta get this guy with us.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
You're the ambassador for the m t a's ride and
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
They hit. My line was like, we're trying to do something.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
No, but no like that. The current campaign that's running
with the m t A. It's meaningful.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
There are a lot of kids that are getting hurt
because they're subway serving and it's super dangerous. Over Fourth
of July we've seen some unfortunately things happened. So when
Anti approached me, so listen, we like we're facing this issue,
would love to partner with you to combat this issue
off like one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I believe in it.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And we launched the campaign what like two months ago,
ready a month ago, about two months.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Ago Alive and stay inside rights, Stay alive.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
So no, it's dope, man, And for me it's I
grew up taking the train from Queens to the city
to go ride like the Brooklyn Banks and meeting with
my friends. So now to have the opportunity to partner
with the MTA on a very positive initiative, man, it
means a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
What was the biggest obstacle you faced throughout your whole
career with everything that you did ride, What was the
biggest obstacle, the biggest problem?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I think I'm still facing that. It's just educating people
on what BMX is, you know, and continuing to set
the stage for it and like open the door per se.
You know, there's still a lot of people who don't
know what it is or don't respect it in the
way that it should be. So just educating people on
what BMX is and like showing the world, like how
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powerful the bicycle is, you know, always say the bicycle
is the most accessible motor transportation in the world. Anywhere
you go in the world, you'll see someone riding the bicycle.
You can't go outside without seeing it. So I think
there's so much power to unlock. And that's what that's
the mission I'm on right now.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Do you consider yourself an athlete?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Some people feel like an athlete is a basketball player,
but they haven't seen some of the ships y'all be doing,
because that should be athletic.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I mean, listen, like there's so much training that like
like goes into it. I was having a conversation yesterday
I was doing this interview. I was like, like in
my younger days, I didn't consider myself an athlete, like
prior to going pro, but once I went pro. I
got also signed to Gatorade like shortly after going pro,
and they have a sports science institution in Chicago where
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like they'll bring athletes in and like pretty much test
like your reaction and you're stamming the all of the things.
And I went there and I spent the whole day
there doing these different tests. Right like again, they had
me on a treadmill. They have these tubes coming out
like whatever, and my results was like, man, like your
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body is working just as hard as a basketball player
or a football player. You're doing like you're on the
same level as that. And that's when it hit me.
I was like, oh no, yeah, like I'm legitimate athlete. Yeah,
like my like vehicle is different. I mean, I'm like,
my body operates in a different way, but I'm one
hundred percent athlete first and foremost.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
There you have it, man, make sure you pick up
his sneak up that comes out on the sixteenth and
tell them about Go Ride again this weekend.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Listen, Go Ride twenty twenty five is happening this weekend.
We're here in New York, Miami and Mexico City. Go
on my Instagram at Nijer Sevester for all the details.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And people got to write show they could just pull up.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They can pull up and register when you get there
to sign a little waver going.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
We're gonna ride out to have a really good time.
You're starting in New York this weekend, Starting New York
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Borrow in Manhattan, Manhattan, Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
We're gonna do fifteen miles and then we jump on
the jet and go down to Miami.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
But you're not the jet jet about to go by
bike and I was trying to jump on the jet
just about. Hey fly right off now, and queens, is
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she trying to get the.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Okay, start sweating. We don't want to talk about what
starts going man, this is me.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Ladies and gentlemen. Make sure you follow him and go ride.
And we appreciate you and I love the fact that
represent the Burrow all the time.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Big Queen shout out to big queen.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Queens get the money, thanks Nigel Sylvester.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's the breakfast club.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Good morning every day.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
A week ago.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Your ass up the breakfast club.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
You're finished for y'all.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Dumb mhm
Every day.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Click up the breakfast clubs. Y'all morning everybody. It's DJ Envy,
just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We are the breakfast club law La Rosa is here
as well, and we got a special guest in the building,
Pro BMX biker athlete. Brothers from Queens, Nigel sevest of
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome, Big Queens, Big Queens in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
How are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Incredible? Incredible God will met this morning, so I feel great.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now we get when we get brothers like you.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I like to start from the beginning of how right.
So you're from Laurelton, Queens, which is north side, which
is the same side of Queens. I'm from him from
Queens Village, and growing up in Queens, we all rode bikes, right,
but we didn't ride to the caliber of that you
rode for. We rode to go to the park, We
rode to go to the store, to bodega, to go
to White Castle, to go to.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Those places.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Right, guys, the Brooklyn kids from trying to steal our
bikes all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But you you took a different round.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So start with you growing.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Up in Queens and how you got into BMX biking
and taking it serious.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
I mean, just like you said right, like we grew
up riding bikes in that capacity to get from pointy
to point B. For me, it was like during that
pointy to point B, I was like, I want to
jump off this curve. I want to pop up Willie
or like I was curious in that way and that
just man, it took me down a route of like okay,
like how far can I take this right? Like how
how many steps can I jump down? I want to
grind this bench over here? And once I started to
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discover that you can do it professionally, I was like, oh,
this is what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I was sold after that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
But what got you into that? Because grown up in Queens,
you know, sometimes we idolize basketball players because we see him, right,
we see Mark Jackson from Queens.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Stevenson and all these other people.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We see rappers run DMC tribe called Quaz fifty and
whoever it was, we seen him DJ's jam Master j
Klue myself. But what got you in to say, you
know what I can do this professionally? Was what were
you watching and says I want to do this.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I've seen it on TV, right, seen X games on TV,
seeing guys like Dave Mirror and Matt Hoffman and Ryan Niquist,
and these guys.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Were flying through the air.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
They had their helmets on and their chest protectors and
all the stickers on their bikes, and it was super
cool to me.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I was just intrigued. I was like, damn, look that
looks dope.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
And of course, like I would see like basketball players
on TV and rappers as you mentioned, that was dope
to me as well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But it was something about bike riding that it just
clicked for me.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It was different. How old were you when you really
started taking it serious?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I was like twelve years old.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
And I just always have a big imagination as well, right,
Like I'm just living on my imagination still. But even then,
I was like, man, like, it's something about this bike
that I'm thinking about different things that I want to do,
and I'm going outside and trying it in real time, right,
just figuring it out.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Like I would take like an old.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Tire and a board and make a MT and like
go back thirty forty feet and just pedal.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
As fast as I can hit that ramp. And fly
through the air.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
And it was something about that feeling of flying through
the air that became like just like adrenaline rush for me.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I remember that.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
You built like you would build a ramp.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh yeah, building ramps.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, I'm going to like Saint Clair's Park and the
school that I'm grinding on, like marble ledges and whatnot,
and and then I could find a jump on my bike,
I would do it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Now you're also from Caribbean descent.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, So what did.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Your Caribbean parents say when you say, Ma, I want
you to ride bikes? And the bikes that you're talking
about are not the bikes from TSS tar Ya and
those type of stores. You had professional bike with professional
pegs them. Bikes were a lot of money back in.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
How did that work?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Man?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Like my mom she didn't really like to watch me
ride like any mind. She was like, I don't want
you to see hurt yourself, like I'm afraid for you,
and things of that nature. But the thing that she
did that I that I applaud her for that she
gave me the freedom to go out and try, you
know what I mean. Like she may have not wanted
to watch me do it because she was afraid of me,
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like hurting myself, but she let me go out in
the neighborhood and do my thing and let me hang
out with other kids who rode bikes and whatnot, so
like that was what that was. And when I turned pro,
like she didn't really understand it at first, but it
took her a minute, but once she got it, she's like, okay,
cool and it was in the full support of it.
So shout out to Mama Sylvester.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
You've been working with Nike for over a decade now, right, Yeah,
it's been how.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Long it's been over fifteen years? Now?
Speaker 7 (04:22):
How old were you when you started working with them?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I was eighteen, so yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Was that before you were pro?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was right after?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Okay, gotcha? Because I was going to ask because when
you were a kid, I saw an interview. Did you
talked about when you were a kid? Nike was just
sending you stuff and I was wondering, like, at what point,
because you know, social media is it's not new, but
like people understanding how to use social media and you're
laying You're like, you're one of the people that I
think people look at because we don't really know too
much about black BMX bike riders.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
How did you know that? Like do what you do
to attract the brands that young for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So BMX has like a proper industry, right, Like they're like,
there's a.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Way to turn pro like in that way, it's pretty
much like it's either you ride contests and sponsors would
see you like at these contests, or you can be
a free rider, which is like creating content I would
say would be the equivalent and like putting that content
out into the world. And I took the free ride route,
where like I didn't ride in contest, didn't care for that.
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Those contests never really came to like New York City
and extremely unconventional, extremely and I was actually on a tour.
We went down to North Carolina to meet Dave Mirror,
who was the dude, the not dude, but the athlete,
the legend that gave me my first shot to turn pro.
And when I and when I met him, he just
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like a liking to me. And at this point in time,
like I would compare Dave Mirror, he's like Michael Jordan
to be a X riding, you know what I mean.
So we were down there met him He's like, Yo,
I'm starting this brand. I want I want to sign
you to the brand name of the brand the brands
called Miracle Bikes. So he ended up signing me to
the brand maybe four months after meeting him. And while
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also on that trip, I met a gentleman by the
name of Mark Closi. Mark Closi would end up going
on to be the team manager of the Nike BMX program.
So shortly after signing with Dave Mirror, Mark Closi was like, cool, like,
I'm at Nike now I'm going to sign you. So
I literally signed a turn pro and signed to Miracle
Bikes at Nike all within the year turning eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Was there any pressure for yourself?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Because I know, growing up, even watching television in the
X Games, there wasn't too many black people doing it, right,
so now you are kind of the black guy that
does it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is there any pressure.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Knowing that all these kids are looking up to you
because you are the one that looks like me, You're
the one that looks like my brother, You're the one
that came from the place that I came. Is there
any pressure with that?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No, Because there were black BMX athletes on a professional
level before me, you know, and a lot of come
after me. I'm just doing my thing. Honestly, I don't
feel any pressure for me. It's a far ast pressure
for that. For me, it's more I put the pressure
myself to be the best. That's what it matters to
me at this point, Like I'm here for a reason
and I want to leave a mark that will stand
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into the test of time.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You were probably one of the first that really mixed
the culture together, right because usually when you see a
BMX biker, you'd be like, that's not me. I liked
what they're doing, but that doesn't represent me, or if
you see somebody like ah, he doesn't wear what I wear.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
But you were totally different.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Like you you were the I don't want to say
the hip hop be a Mex biker, but you were
the hip hop biker.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Like you were the one that was like this, like
me listen.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
To music I listened to So explain that a little
bit in that breakdown.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I mean, I think it's similar to what you just said, right,
Like we grew up not too far from one another,
so that was the environment, you know what I mean,
Like I'm watching like my older brothers, whatnot come through
the block and rimmed up Maximus and lexusis and whatnot,
and like I'm watching music videos on TV and I'm
going to the Coliseum block to go shop to go
by jerseys and warm up suits and fitted hats.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I'll come from that.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
So when I turned and pro even just like being
X writer in general, I naturally mix those two things
together because it's just that's just who I was.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That was, but who I am, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
So that's why it looks like That's why it comes
across like that, and it comes across real. It's not
like for store, I'm not living outside myself or doing
something that's not me.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Was it difficult for you because during that time, it
was a lot of bmx's.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Were so crossover, right, they were so Ara.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Crime being fitched, but you weren't. So was it difficult
to get deals and difficult to get placements in places
you need to be because you weren't like the rest
of them.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I definitely felt friction at times, and especially within the
industry right at a certain point in time. And she
was like, oh, like you're trying to be a rap
or like you're too hip hop for us.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And I was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Like this is who I am, so I think it
took them a minute to get that. But what's also
interesting though, it was like for me coming up, I'm
watching BMX videos and guys are using rap songs and
things that nature in these songs. Again, like there were
black BMX riders or riders of color way before me. Right,
I just took it to another level, right when you
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see me in a music video, where asat ferg and
people are just like whoa, that's different. But at the
same time, like riding BMX bikes you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Like we cool know that. Oh yeah, bur grab bikes.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
It was in one of my first videos back I
think it was like two thousand and eight, thousand and
nine or something like that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's even started rapping.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
You want to tell his fashion too, he dresses a
lot Like yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I mean, like, it's just it's part of what we do. Right,
Just because you ride bikes doesn't mean that we're not
into other things. It means that that doesn't mean that
we're confined to one space, right, I mean like not
like it's just part of what we do growing up
in the hood.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Like you ride bikes, you know what I mean, And.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
As good as you make it look relatable though, because
I mean you make it more relatable because although bikers
do more than just ride bikes to some kids, some
kids me think that's like a category where it's like, uh,
you know, not like like for instance, nast you don't
see a lot of black Nascar drivers.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
So to your point, like what you do, you make
it look more accessible and more relatable to like somebody
growing up in Queens Now or Brooklyn or whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know, And that's and that's super important to me though,
right Like I want kids from those neighborhoods to know
that they can do this too, you know what I mean,
Like why not, you know, like just because you're from
a certain neighborhood or from a certain environment a certain situation,
doesn't mean that you have to be confined to only
doing certain things, you know, so like.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Like wrapping or playing basketball, that's too.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We can do way more. We can do way way more.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Talk about a little bit about brand trust, because one
of the things I thought was interesting, like in your packaging,
because Nike is very particular with their brand, but they
let you do the bike over the night, and I
know that you also had that on a shoe, like
one of your first shoes you did.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
But Jordan's right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, I love it cooler.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Look yeah, but.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
It's fire right even so, like if y'all I was
really researching yesterday because I'm I think what you do
is so fire. But if you look closely, there's like
a distorted text on this right. Nike, you don't play
about their branding. How was it for you? Was it
your idea to say, hey, can we do the Nike
as bike And were they just down or did they
come to you with that?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So what I did my first AJ one, my first
collaboration with Jordan Brand was in twenty and seventeen, and
that's when the idea sparked. I remember I was sitting
in like the Energy design room looking at one of
the reference shoes that we were using now, looking at
the label just like this. I'm like, man, would be
so cool if we just turned into it. B And
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at that point in time, we were like, no way,
they'll like let us do it. So we just sat
on the idea. And this is when I was still
signed to the Nike side of the business. I signed
to the Jordan brand side of the business in twenty
twenty one, and the first shoe I worked on when
I signed to the Jordan Brent side of the business,
it was a friends and family shoe. It was a
Nike airship, which is the first shoe that MJ. Wallden
came into the league before the AJ one. And because
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it was a friends OF's family shoe, I was like, yoh,
maybe they'll let us do it now. So we did
it and then once we posted it online it went crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I think it was because of.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
The concept made so much sense, right, Like people have
watched me on my bike in the air or my
entire career, right, so when you take something like that
and then you you bring it together with bike air
and it's like, oh, it just makes so much sense.
That's why it just took off. And now like all
the shoes that I'm doing and have bike on it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Do you like resellers reselling your sneakers and not? Because
some of it, like the brick by bricks it was
like World War two out here.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yes, it's almost impossible to find.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
You like that or no? Because how do you benefit
from resellers?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's part of the culture.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
This is part of the culture, you know, like the
fact that people want to pay two, three, four times
over like the real retail price for the shoe. It
just says that. I mean, like they love the problem. U.
They relate to the story. It has equity in it,
you know what I mean. The resell game is the
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whole It's the whole industry, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Like people.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Feed themselves and feed their families off that game. So
shout out to the resellers. Man, do y'all think.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I was reading something where it says, you know, when
you were a kid, when most kids would go into
Green Acres Mall or the coliseum, you wanted to get
on the train and.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Go to Soho.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, what was so special about Manhattan and Soho during
that time? That was like you was like, nah, I
don't want to do what y'all doing. I want to
kind of do my own thing.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Right, And that was probably like tenth eleventh grade. I
started to do that.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
So my mom worked in the city, so when I
was a kid, she would take me to the city
to her job.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So she taught me how to ride the train right,
and at a certain point, just like man like I
don't want.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
To dress like everybody else. So I started to go
further out to get pieces or clothes or things that
no one else had. So I would go to like Supreme,
and I remember going to Supreme to by like my
first naked dunks, like I think it was the T nineteens.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was all blue Nike.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Dunk and nowhere on the ave had them, no where
green nakeds had them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And it was that thing. It was.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
It was having pieces, having sneakers that no one else had,
you know what I mean. You know, you come back
to the hood rock or something no knows Scott like, yo,
you get those from.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So that was the thing for me.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Is somebody think you got it from Canal Street. That's
the first thing somebody said we ain't got.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
But you look at the game now and that's just normal, right,
Like kids are leaving whatever, going to wherever to get
the pieces that no one have, or to have them,
to be to have that thing that none of your
people's got, you know, it's just part of the game.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Fly.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I also riding.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
When I was a kid riding, we didn't have helmets, right,
We didn't right, we didn't wear helmets, right, So what
was the worst injury that you've got rotten and what happened?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Asked this question?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Man, I think people look at BMX AND's like, man like,
it's like the most dangerous thing.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Corn b.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's just as dangerous as any other sport. Right, think
about a running back coming through the line. Is ray
lewis right there ready to at.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Least he got some.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
You know when to expect it.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But the bike riding is like it could not happen,
but it could also happen.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
In singing to do something the other day and I'm like,
no disrespect, not get up there in age.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I'm like his body and he knee.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Pads that we like just dropped a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah, and this is like probably made to you, but
I was like, whoa, my knees.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Hurt washing, So what was the worst? The worst is.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I broke my wristle on my nineteenth birthday. Not like
that was terrible for me. It's my first major injury,
and from then it's just like bruises, you know what
I mean, Like my shins all jacked up. I've been
doing this for so long, Like any athlete, you get
to that point where it's like man, of course you
can experience injury.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's part of the game right until your point.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
But also like, yes, you like you know to expect
that you're gonna get hit when you're playing football, it's
the same thing, like but you're like you're trying not
to But the same thing with bike riding, right like
you're trying to land every single trick. You're not trying
to hurt yourself, right, And it's a it's a true
art form, right like if you don't just go out
and just jump off of something, like you work your
way up to that, right, So if you're trying to
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go jump down ten stairs, you're gonna try two first,
master that, then you go to four six, self on
and so on, And it's everything is very thoughtful, right Like,
it's not just like I'm wake up today and to
try like this thing I never tried before. No, like you,
it's calculated, right, It's all calculated and by and for
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me personally, being as calculated as I am, I have
I guess like limited the amount of injuries, and.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Of course by like the grace of God. But because
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
When you wake up in the month, you can be
like I can take the ferrari. So do you still
enjoy it? Like now I'm gonnake the bike and I
love it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Man, I got the bike in the back of the
wagon right now, you know what I mean, Like you
just pull up sometimes and you know case.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Jump down.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I still love it, man. I still enjoy going to
the skate park. I still love being out there finding spots,
challenging myself in that way, Like it's still my truest
form of self expression is being X riding.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know, is there a trick that you have not
mastered yet that you feel like, yo, I gotta do this.
This is on my bucket list, Like what is that
one trick that you're still trying to master.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
There's always a trick that is in my mind, right
because how I look at BMX riting too, right, like
everything is ridable.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
So I go outside in the world, I may see
a handrail that they just built whatever, like a year ago.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm like, I never I didn't ride that hand rat.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Like I'm a fuck this hand I don't want to
go hit that handrail. So it's always something that like
I want to do, you know what I mean? And
I love that, like that's still a desire.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Of mine, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Like again, I still love riding my bike, and I
still do as much as I possibly can. Yeah, my
business has grown and things have changed. I got different
responsibilities nowadays, but like riding is still at the core
of everything that I do.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You got locked up for it because I sometimes public place,
private place. You ever got locked up?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, I mean, you know, like I feel like there's
been times where being mixed riding has been misunderstood, and
I've been misunderstood. So we'll be riding a handrail or
riding a park or something and it's trespassing, you know
what I mean. And it's like at the end of
the day, we're just expressing ourselves, you know what I mean.
Like we're not hurting nobody, We're not doing no drugs,
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Like we're not being violent.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
We're just expressing ourselves. And yeah, so it's happened before
growing up.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
One thing I always tell people about, especially New York
skateboarders and bike riders, he said, y'all will fuck somebody up.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
There's a lot of times cars will cut you all off,
bump into y'all, And I'm like that is the worst
beef to have because they got their weapons that they're
riding on. Have you ever been in it's a situation
like that where car cut your love and be like, man,
we have to put this guy out.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I mean, it happens in New York City all the time,
right all the time, all the time. They don't care
what car lane whatever.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Because man, y'all don't respect us. Y'all got your own lane,
and y'all always.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Coming over bating, like you know, I'm like they.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Built lanes specifically for y'all.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Like the lane too small.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Now let me go over here and try to jet
in front of this g wagon we need.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I'm trying to get the work, and you don't never
look to the right, turn into the left.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's there's a lot of like bike hating going on, right.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I understand, I'm not exercise.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Have you you from us and you ride bikes.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
And now getting.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Never and me post everything. I never seen you post
a bike.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Your thing is cars missed the car show man, You
ain't never I never see you on no damn bike.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I used to wear the outfit with the pattern in
my ass.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And oh yeah, yeah, he's so funny.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Christ Now talk about your partnership with McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
IVE seen that you used to work for McDonald's growing up,
and now they pay you not to work there and.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Just give you a break that down a little bit.
Is that incredible? Yeah? Yeah, mc Donald's was my first job.
I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I did two summers there and really I was just
saving up money to get new bikes and new bike parts,
you know what I mean. And then like once my
business started to roll, as far as me and being
a professional athlete, I decided I want to work with
brands that I can relate to, brands that are authentic
to me. And McDonald's been on the list for a
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long time and we just got the deal done like
two months ago.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
But it's incredible for me to be able to work
with brands like in the capacity that I do. That
I'm able to not just be a face of a
product or a campaign, but we're actually like collaborating on
ideas and putting products out and putting campaigns out like that.
That means a lot to me, you know, and also
it shows people that man like even me coming from
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the background I come from. As far as the BMX athlete,
non non traditional athlete. I can do these type of
things and play in these spaces.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And it looks good. It's not just like it's not wack,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Is there ever a celebrity now that like pops up
in your stuff and you're like, oh wow, I saw
Mooie Bets wear your cleats and then those are reselling
like crazy or resold like crazy.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
But does anybody surprise you? At this point?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's all love.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
All of it is like surprising, you know, Like even
when before like the break Boy Bricks came out, I
think it was like Brown had them on and Roman
Rings had him on the same night, and I was
just like, damn, this is crazy, you know what I mean?
Like this product that that we collaborated on and created
and put into the world, like people are really gravitating
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towards it. So yeah, I feel like I saw just
love and like I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
You know, is there fire that like you know, even
these these are fire, I'm still trying to get them.
Your man gonna come in here with them on, But
shout out to you. You also have your go Ride festival.
Would you call it a festivals?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
It's not a festival yet, but it's just like it's
an international bike ride.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
I think it's dope. And I see that you have
expanded it to Mexico City. Yes, what made you want
to do that?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You're in Mexico.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
See, my husband is Mexican and black. He's not really
full bread Mexican. But they always wing ride on that
because you.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Know, because they ride bikes.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
So what made you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Expand comment on that? No, So this is thirty annual
Go Ride. The last two years we did London to
New York right, and for anyone who doesn't know what
Go Ride is, it is my international bike ride where
we hit multiple cities within twenty four hours. So this
show is like, man like, I want to take a
different route and we want to extend it to three cities.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So we're doing Mexico.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We're doing New York, Miami and Mexico City within thirty
hours and I'll be in all three cities we do.
We do a fifteen mile bike around in each of
those cities. So I'm super excited for people are getting
their bikes ready. It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Do you join something like that? How does that like?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
So you how do you like get other bike riders
around the world to do that, like.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Just pull up. Were just promoted and is listen to
everyone's welcome to pull up.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
So you're going to be an envy.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Well this weekend this I would be in Houston this
week but definitely would I would love to go same house.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
No, exactly, It's not even that bad.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Honestly, we have we have people from all walks of life,
like kids, middle age, everything.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Like people are pulling up and riding.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Like when you're in that pack with so many kids
riding bikes, that energy is so contagious, right, Like it's
not like you're on a bike ride by yourself, like
you had kids popping whillies and doing bunny hops and
music kids too. Not how it's it's amazing. It's like
it's nothing else like it. So yeah, I mean, I'm
looking forward to this weekend. If you guys in New
York City pop out this weekend to go ride, or
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if you're in Miami or Mexico City, will definitely be
out in the streets.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What would you tell that that younger kid right now
that that's watching you, that wants to get into BMX
bike and his parents probably be like, that's not a
real job.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Get a real job.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
What would you tell that younger kid right now?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I would tell them to show your parents my Instagram
and showing that it is a real thing.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Also, man, just do what you love, honestly, bro, Like
that's I live by that still, you.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Know what I mean. Like, I'm living out my imagination.
I'm creating.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I stay curious and I think that allows me to
come up with these ideas and I work super hard
to get these things out into the world. So that
younger kid, man, just do what you Love's work hard.
I know it sounds cliche, but it's so true. Like
I feel all you got to sit in here right
now because of that, right, Like you love what you
do and you dedicate yourself to it. Even watching you
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likes to watch you on Instagram all the time to
see you up here. Now when you guys announce it, like,
that's super dope for you. So congrats to that. So
just just lock in and stay focused.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Now, what the sneak is it? The new Sneakers that
you're releasing. Yeah, it would come out on the sixteenth yep.
Now break sixteen is down. So the Fours of Jordan falls,
of course sold out crazy brick by brick was was
I guess your mentality if you had to do this,
brick by brick, you have.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
To build this thing break by brick.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Man explain the new collapse.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
These are the AJ one low better with times and
it's modeled. This is the second iteration of my first
aj one we had. We did the same exact shoe
in the high top and it was a cream colorway.
You see, like the distress marks here basically tell the
story of how my sneakers get distressed when I'm out
riding with them, so my bike has no breaks on them.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's crazy, so I used my sneakers to stop.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
I literally just noticed that the front of it is
already is like distress, but it looks like a design.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
It decides to each and each shoe is it's hand distressed.
So no two shoes has the same distress mark, so no,
like no one has the same pair in a sense.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But yeah, it just tells.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
It just tells the story of like things getting better
with time, you know, like when you dedicate yourself, when
you stay focused on something, like it gets better with time.
Right when like your favorite pair of jeans or your
favorite vintage T shirt or advantage car, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What I mean?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Like those things get better with time. I really want
to tap into that. I feel I'm at this place
in my life right now. I've dedicated so much time
to bike round and so much energy to it, and
it's only gotten better for me, And I feel like
we all have that thing that has gotten better with time.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
When you do your deals with Jordan's, do you decide
what sneakers you want to do over or is it
one of those things you have to come to the table,
like if you say, yo, I want to do the concords.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Over or is it like how does that work?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Because I notice even with Jordan's some sneakers he ain't
doing over something he does. Even with the Jordan fays,
you don't really have too many people that do the
falls over.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So how do y'all.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Decide how y'all want to do it? Or how you
attack designing a sneaker?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
For you, it's a collaborative effort, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Sometimes it's like I'm I'm in a place where I
want to do a certain silhouette. Sometimes the brand is
like this is initiative for us, and it's a collaborate effort.
We come to the table, we'll decide what works for
everyone and take it from there. You know, this this
one in particular, we had We had designed it shortly
after my first one came out.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We assembled it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
So we had this in the chamber for years now,
and it was like, man, it's time to put it
out because I've been I've been wearing it for.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The past three years. It's like it's time to put
it out. So that's how it came about.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And what's your your dream Jordan sneaker that you would
love to do that? He was like, this is the
one I want to do over after this?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Oh man, there's so many I definitely wanted to do,
like a five or six or seventeen.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
That's I think.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, somebody got to show me that they don't want
to that the Mexican step.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
Bad be wearing man, because you know it's a certain
number where they start buying them up off the shop
like that, Okay, somebody seventeen right now.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They do.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
But some of them are like the girls.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
We have certain ones where it's like they're all basketball things,
but we like, I wear these, but I don't know
if I would wear the seventeens, I would know how.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
To you might, I don't know. It's just about styling
them the right way.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
You gotta do a twelve eleven or.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Was fired to eleven? Fire two? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Whoever shots your shot to try and redo one of
them in a brand is like you can't touch that.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
One, nah, And I hope that never happens.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
She's the queen of speaking things.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Listen, like we're in We're in a very good place
right now.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
We've put out this is the fourth shoe I've put
out in the past year, and the streets have been
loving all of the clops so far.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So hoping that we continue on that trajectory.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Even about your shoe that you got now the A
A J one, Man, you say how you use your
shoe to stop themselves, because you you know, shoes have
come a long way, like you actually have like a
distressed shoe. I used to what my son and for messing.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Up ahead.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
Breaks on his bike and he was still stopping. So
it's so dope that you're doing that. Like that's dope
because yo, kids, shoes are expensive, especially for y'all boys. Man,
Like when all your feet grow big at a faster
pace and I ain't about to be So I'm gonna
buy some distressed as shoes for my son so he ain't.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Got the It's actually good.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
It's actually a good thought though, right because not mess
and now we're something sneakers that come.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Distressed, you should have commercial.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Commercial.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It's also interesting too because the first one we did
that came distressed, it was one of the first shoes
I think it was the first shoe that Jordan Brands
ever done that has come pre distressed. So that also
like set off a wave of a lot of distressed shoes.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Coming after it.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
How did you partner with m t A. How did
that come about? That's big to me?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Exactly, we gotta get this guy with us.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
You're the ambassador for the m t a's ride and
so crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
They hit. My line was like, we're trying to do something.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
No, but no like that. The current campaign that's running
with the m t A. It's meaningful.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
There are a lot of kids that are getting hurt
because they're subway serving and it's super dangerous. Over Fourth
of July we've seen some unfortunately things happened. So when
Anti approached me, so listen, we like we're facing this issue,
would love to partner with you to combat this issue
off like one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I believe in it.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And we launched the campaign what like two months ago,
ready a month ago, about two months.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Ago Alive and stay inside rights, Stay alive.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
So no, it's dope, man, And for me it's I
grew up taking the train from Queens to the city
to go ride like the Brooklyn Banks and meeting with
my friends. So now to have the opportunity to partner
with the MTA on a very positive initiative, man, it
means a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
What was the biggest obstacle you faced throughout your whole
career with everything that you did ride, What was the
biggest obstacle, the biggest problem?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I think I'm still facing that. It's just educating people
on what BMX is, you know, and continuing to set
the stage for it and like open the door per se.
You know, there's still a lot of people who don't
know what it is or don't respect it in the
way that it should be. So just educating people on
what BMX is and like showing the world, like how
(32:05):
powerful the bicycle is, you know, always say the bicycle
is the most accessible motor transportation in the world. Anywhere
you go in the world, you'll see someone riding the bicycle.
You can't go outside without seeing it. So I think
there's so much power to unlock. And that's what that's
the mission I'm on right now.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Do you consider yourself an athlete?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Some people feel like an athlete is a basketball player,
but they haven't seen some of the ships y'all be doing,
because that should be athletic.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I mean, listen, like there's so much training that like
like goes into it. I was having a conversation yesterday
I was doing this interview. I was like, like in
my younger days, I didn't consider myself an athlete, like
prior to going pro, but once I went pro. I
got also signed to Gatorade like shortly after going pro,
and they have a sports science institution in Chicago where
(32:56):
like they'll bring athletes in and like pretty much test
like your reaction and you're stamming the all of the things.
And I went there and I spent the whole day
there doing these different tests. Right like again, they had
me on a treadmill. They have these tubes coming out
like whatever, and my results was like, man, like your
(33:18):
body is working just as hard as a basketball player
or a football player. You're doing like you're on the
same level as that. And that's when it hit me.
I was like, oh no, yeah, like I'm legitimate athlete. Yeah,
like my like vehicle is different. I mean, I'm like,
my body operates in a different way, but I'm one
hundred percent athlete first and foremost.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
There you have it, man, make sure you pick up
his sneak up that comes out on the sixteenth and
tell them about Go Ride again this weekend.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Listen, Go Ride twenty twenty five is happening this weekend.
We're here in New York, Miami and Mexico City. Go
on my Instagram at Nijer Sevester for all the details.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And people got to write show they could just pull up.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They can pull up and register when you get there
to sign a little waver going.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
We're gonna ride out to have a really good time.
You're starting in New York this weekend, Starting New York
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Borrow in Manhattan, Manhattan, Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
We're gonna do fifteen miles and then we jump on
the jet and go down to Miami.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
But you're not the jet jet about to go by
bike and I was trying to jump on the jet
just about. Hey fly right off now, and queens, is
(34:33):
she trying to get the.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Okay, start sweating. We don't want to talk about what
starts going man, this is me.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Ladies and gentlemen. Make sure you follow him and go ride.
And we appreciate you and I love the fact that
represent the Burrow all the time.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Big Queen shout out to big queen.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Queens get the money, thanks Nigel Sylvester.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's the breakfast club.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Good morning every day.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
A week ago.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Your ass up the breakfast club.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
You're finished for y'all.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Dumb mhm
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