“Yo, this is what I’m doing.”
Jomi gave us the courage to go to our parents and be like Which is very difficult for a Nigerian kid.I first met these guys at 14, they were 16 I think. My parents didn’t understand why I was hanging out with these older guys. Slawn would be taking me out to parties and shit.Growing up in Nigeria, there’s this thing of not having fear. I feel being African makes you more bold. Then skateboarding, too, makes you even bolder. You have to be fearless to be a skateboarder in Nigeria.
South Africa has a fucking sick skate scene. Some cool niggas in Soweto. The Kucklehead guys from Botswana are sick. The Ghanaian guys are sick. They all came to Lagos to make some films recently and it was crazy, they were fucking psychos.One thing we hate is when people say: “Oh, you guys are cool for an African skate brand.” We are coolAlmost everything we’ve done we’ve taught ourselves to do from looking at how other brands do it and working out how to incorporate Nigerian culture into it.
Grace: It’s so amazing though! How far you’ve come now. You’re doing collaborations with Angelo Baque in New York, now, this pioneer of the skate culture scene! Onyedi:Mixing New York and Lagos... New York is the Lagos of America. New York is LSD and Lagos is shrooms.From the very beginning, me and Onyedi would spend our time texting people, people that others wouldn’t think to ask because they just thought they wouldn’t reply.
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