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Apparently, Women Love 13-Year-Old Skaters Named Baby Scumbag

Steven Fernandez, a.k.a. Baby Scumbag, is just a normal 13-year-old skater from a bad neighborhood in LA. A normal 13-year-old skater who’s sponsored by a bunch of companies, has 38,000 subscribers on Facebook and 140,000 followers on Instagram, and gets photographed with guns and sexy (adult) women. Full story

This Is What a Skate Magazine Should Look Like

As skateboarding has grown in popularity and seeped into the lives of an ever-increasing number of households, the industry—and I'm painting with a broad stroke here—has morphed into a more family-friendly, watered-down version of what it once was, like MTV or domesticated animal… Full story

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Hanging with Al Rogers

For this week's Mahal, I met up with Baltimore rapper Al Rogers and New York City shredder Eby Ghafarian to cruise the Lower East Side and pregame the release of Al's first ever LP, 'Almost.' Al got his start by reciting poetry then graduated to writing his own. Full story

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Remember Zulu's?

You might be asking yourself, "Why did two grown men spend their Sunday afternoon in a drainage ditch?" Valid question. Answer: Because we were trying to film some tricks for an upcoming Roger Skateboards video offering. Full story

There Was a "Skate Riot" in LA

WIth the Arab Spring, Occupy, Israel's J14 protests, Mexico's #YoSoy132 movement, and that one Jay-Z/Kanye West music video, it seems that youth-revolt fever is taking over the globe. I guess it was only a matter of time before American youth said "ENOUGH" and started to fight ba… Full story

My Parents Are Probably Hoarders

My parents are hoarders. I didn’t know this growing up, or when I left for college, or even years after graduating. The realization only came to me when I had to clean out their horrid basement. Full story

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Respect Mom Butts

Back when I was twelve, I would have punched your mom in the butt if you told me that one day I'd be included in a skateboard graphics retrospective with Jim Phillips. Full story

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This Looks Like a Good Place to Get Murdered

If you like looking at scenic pictures of Texas, read/look at this. If not, get back on Facebook and make a clever comment about your friend's new hairdo/tattoo/sandwich. Full story

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The Idiot Days

The smell of waffle cones wafting out of this place brought me back to a time when I wore pants that were five sizes too big and t-shirts that were two sizes too small. Full story

Why Are You Doing This? The Dark Monk

An album that poses the question "Can the Darkmonk stop the evil global leader and his army of cyborgs?" I don't know. Can he? Full story