This is the first official skate video I ever owned and watched. I had a choice between the classics. Misled youth, Jump off a building etc. but as a young black kid who looked up to Kareem, this felt the most relatable to me. People sleep on this team. And the significance
I love City Stars, but I think they kind of missed their shot by disappearing and DGK took their place as the Hip-Hop/street focused board company. Just to add, City Stars actually disappeared in 2003, then came back in 2009 before quickly disappearing again. Also, as an obscure aside, in Kareem’s THPS3 vid it shows him signing copies of a City Stars album. I’ve never seen one for sale anywhere, hopefully one day someone tracks a copy down.
Kareem is one of the mains reasons i got into skating.. Had his signature trucks on my first deck which oddly enough was a world industries board lol after watching this, i remember all the brand switches but had no idea why it all happened, until now. Thanks @Shredz Shop
My first intro with City Stars was many years ago with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. It featured Kareem Campell and even his rap group's song: Bad Dreams. Good grief, that was many years ago! I even, believe the game featured some video parts of Kareem skating. Kareem, Elissa and Andrew Reynolds were among my favorite skaters. 😊
I’m hoping City Stars makes a full fledged comeback, I downloaded Session recently and saw they had city stars decks in the game, all boards I never seen before. Was always a huge fan growing up and then became a bigger fan when I saw Justin Case, Ryan Denman and Mikey Taylor were all into Hondas at one point 🤣
@@RyanDenman78”Anotha goddamn city stars am!!” In ten years that’s gonna be me with my eg hatch haha Golden era Hondas are getting hard to find, gotta hold on to them. I dig the car and the past ones you had especially that crx with the lsv! Had no idea people was doing that in the early 2000s, so sick!
I had the pleasure to meet Kareem and the Axion team last year at Pharmacy skateshop in L.A. Super nice guy, he made me sit with all of them on the signing table to take a picture and I had asked him if they were ever going to come up with city stars chains because I have been wanting one since I was a kid lol and he just said they were working on that, cool experience and thanks for all the great videos you put out, keep up the good work 👌👑🔥💎🛹🤜
Was watching a small documentary about Antwan Dixon and Justin Case commented talking about being on city stars. I had never heard of him. Sent me on a skateboard rabbit hole / time machine.
That shot at Mikey: "where he teaches 14 year olds how to get rich" 🤣 I respect MT for seeing skateboarding is falling out of the limelight, realizing he needs an exit strategy for he and his family, getting into real estate, and making content talking about it and (sometimes) being educational. it's easy to throw shade, and that comment is actually funny because fck TikTok, but the guy really did come out of skateboarding and is succeeding. Skateboarding is dying, if not dead already (I grew up skating from '04 to now) and it really is sad, but good for Mikey for solidifying a good career.
No way. Skateboarding is a really permanent thing in my eyes, it helps to know just how much history it has behind, and even today it is thriving. I see a lot of opportunities in skateboarding. Honestly, we survived the early 90s (vert dying, big companies pulling out), if that didn't kill skateboarding I don't think anything can.
lets face facts, turning them pro through an ad on a magazine without notifying was a slap in the face, they carried city stars and should've been showered with a board release party or something. Seems to me that the communication wasn't there and maybe they weren't being payed enough also. I get you have to stay loyal to the brands that help you, but everyone has to eat.
Mastermind distribution started when they did there split with Rocco I used to sell tons of axions and citystars boards (Even sold the city star necklace $49 ) I got a extremely rare pair of axions that they advertised only riders had them got them I got mine from Devine they were a lawsuit model they made Odyssey backpacks even had a citystars music CD
As someone who was never buyin mags or on the web back then only watched vids it was so confusing ... especially since Kentucky back then was ten years behind everything ...like wait i thought they were all city or menace
Raise a 1 for the 1s that membah PROD o. City stars I was a Huge supporter of the Brand, the Yellow and Red Dragonon the Mount, the Needle from the Record player and the Brickyard stand out as ones I had I still Draw that Logo on things doodling around, I would definitely start repping them if they were to do Boards again City Stars 4Life
Yeah in hindsight reem got used by them little dudes they had no loyalty at all thats of course the end of a brand but come to think muska did the same by that i mean giving lil skaterats a chance and them guys sticked together 🤷🏻♂️
Your facts are twisted, Kareem was supposed to do a sister brand to girl originally called "sister" but it ended up becoming chocolate when Kareem & shiloh had a change of mind
Who is your favourite City Stars skater of all time? What brand should we do 14 Things on next?!
I was a big fan of City Stars when I was first started skating...PROD! Next video...Dekline, Fallen or Mystery. Great video!❤
Louie barletta
Ben Degros
Tensor trucks
Pstone
Jaws
@@NYRAD02would love a new long form Louie interview. Discussing what happened with enjoi. (Corporation owns dwindle they been making cuts)
My First board was a Citystar it had a Full concave 7.75 miss that board.
Kareem & Mikey . 14 Things You Didn't Know About Planet Earth
Thank you guys for doing Michael Taylor justice in the outro. May he always be remembered as a tiktoker
This is the first official skate video I ever owned and watched. I had a choice between the classics. Misled youth, Jump off a building etc. but as a young black kid who looked up to Kareem, this felt the most relatable to me. People sleep on this team. And the significance
I love City Stars, but I think they kind of missed their shot by disappearing and DGK took their place as the Hip-Hop/street focused board company. Just to add, City Stars actually disappeared in 2003, then came back in 2009 before quickly disappearing again.
Also, as an obscure aside, in Kareem’s THPS3 vid it shows him signing copies of a City Stars album. I’ve never seen one for sale anywhere, hopefully one day someone tracks a copy down.
Kareem is one of the mains reasons i got into skating.. Had his signature trucks on my first deck which oddly enough was a world industries board lol after watching this, i remember all the brand switches but had no idea why it all happened, until now. Thanks @Shredz Shop
🙏 glad you enjoyed!!
MENACE, City Stars, Kareem really rebranded them like 4 different times. What could've been.....
I can't imagine rebranding once, let alone that amount of times...
No way anyone could look just like the sloth from Ice Age.
Levi: Hold my beer..
😂😂😂
My first intro with City Stars was many years ago with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. It featured Kareem Campell and even his rap group's song: Bad Dreams. Good grief, that was many years ago! I even, believe the game featured some video parts of Kareem skating. Kareem, Elissa and Andrew Reynolds were among my favorite skaters. 😊
I’m hoping City Stars makes a full fledged comeback, I downloaded Session recently and saw they had city stars decks in the game, all boards I never seen before. Was always a huge fan growing up and then became a bigger fan when I saw Justin Case, Ryan Denman and Mikey Taylor were all into Hondas at one point 🤣
Thanks man, still have an Integra in my 40's🤣
@@RyanDenman78”Anotha goddamn city stars am!!” In ten years that’s gonna be me with my eg hatch haha Golden era Hondas are getting hard to find, gotta hold on to them. I dig the car and the past ones you had especially that crx with the lsv! Had no idea people was doing that in the early 2000s, so sick!
MIKEY TAYLOR, Kareem Campbell, PAUL RODRIGUEZ
Awesome Video as always guys !!! Keep up the amazing vids ! Much Love ❤🇿🇦🛹🤘🏻
🙏🙏🙏
Always great guys, keep up the amazing work! Making Alberta skateboarders proud!
👊❤️🙏
The City Stars tune back in those days. I really loved it... "city starrrrrrrs....."
About time you did one on city stars
Hope you enjoy! 🙏
Damn i miss the 90's skate scene.
I had the pleasure to meet Kareem and the Axion team last year at Pharmacy skateshop in L.A. Super nice guy, he made me sit with all of them on the signing table to take a picture and I had asked him if they were ever going to come up with city stars chains because I have been wanting one since I was a kid lol and he just said they were working on that, cool experience and thanks for all the great videos you put out, keep up the good work 👌👑🔥💎🛹🤜
I got the "City Stars" star tat2d on my upper forearm.. though it was a dope idea at the time,... Now that I'm 33 idk...🤦🏻♂️
Was watching a small documentary about Antwan Dixon and Justin Case commented talking about being on city stars. I had never heard of him. Sent me on a skateboard rabbit hole / time machine.
Superb video, one love from
Ireland 🇮🇪
peep Fabian Alomar.
he talks about get'n drug addicted, life in prison, and back to skating
What’s up wit the new revived axion footwear?
I still have my chain , and yes Mikey's went missing after a night out in Vancouver for slam city jam
my favorite video you have made to date i loved city stars growing up.
🙏 🙏
Dude I want the chain the chain is hella badass
$500,000 for a City stars chain!? 😂 yea I'd say someone's getting robbed...
all city is a graffiti term for having intact/unbuffed graffiti in all 5 nyc boroughs. pretty sure its on urban dictionary
Damn, that’s a dope tip! Thank you!
Justin Case was the best. Eric Pupecki was underrated. And Fabian Alomar's clips in the Menace montage in Trilogy are outstanding.
That shot at Mikey: "where he teaches 14 year olds how to get rich" 🤣
I respect MT for seeing skateboarding is falling out of the limelight, realizing he needs an exit strategy for he and his family, getting into real estate, and making content talking about it and (sometimes) being educational. it's easy to throw shade, and that comment is actually funny because fck TikTok, but the guy really did come out of skateboarding and is succeeding. Skateboarding is dying, if not dead already (I grew up skating from '04 to now) and it really is sad, but good for Mikey for solidifying a good career.
We 💗 Mikey , it's just a joke
@@ShredzShop Slap loves Mikey Taylor.
No way. Skateboarding is a really permanent thing in my eyes, it helps to know just how much history it has behind, and even today it is thriving. I see a lot of opportunities in skateboarding. Honestly, we survived the early 90s (vert dying, big companies pulling out), if that didn't kill skateboarding I don't think anything can.
My sister calls him Cream Campbell's Soup.
How we laughed.
When I was in 6th grade wanted to get the logo tatted city stars and og matix pants (old logo) ..when need speed demons bearings video 😂
Fuck yea that was dope, finally a real education!
Something for the kids to learn about!
That Caine Gayle video part was the perfect start to the video.
lets face facts, turning them pro through an ad on a magazine without notifying was a slap in the face, they carried city stars and should've been showered with a board release party or something. Seems to me that the communication wasn't there and maybe they weren't being payed enough also. I get you have to stay loyal to the brands that help you, but everyone has to eat.
Mastermind distribution started when they did there split with Rocco I used to sell tons of axions and citystars boards (Even sold the city star necklace $49 ) I got a extremely rare pair of axions that they advertised only riders had them got them I got mine from Devine they were a lawsuit model they made Odyssey backpacks even had a citystars music CD
That’s gnarly! Still got those axions?
You guy need to do creature rad video
what is the song name played at the end?
That ending with Mikey was great 🤣
As a kid I enjoyed city stars.
Levi, do you do brazilian waxes at your hair salon? I'm looking like a wookie in a headlock at the moment and need your help. Thanks in advance
KCK was my favorite shoe.
So good!
Kareem Campbell also helps create skateparks
Can you talk about mystery by the nude is featured in a Dogtown tape is an identify the song
now do a video on 14 things you didn’t know about Tracker Trucks🤩
that'd be dope!
Guy mariano on city stars and axion was the shiat!
As someone who was never buyin mags or on the web back then only watched vids it was so confusing ... especially since Kentucky back then was ten years behind everything ...like wait i thought they were all city or menace
Jason Mewes is back!
😆😝
Still waiting for 14 things about Element
Mikey Taylor deserves that.
What’s the montage song?
Hollywood by Jasmine j Walker
x amount of things knot known about CABK
Menace started as early as 1994 gang, not 1998. They were already MNC by ‘96. And shortly after became All City and City Stars
Day 1 of ripndip next
wow i didnt know they changed there name many times. i love the city stars video.
KCK’s dropped around 1996 and I know this cause a dude who graduated that year had a fresh pair that I’ll never forget.
Another spicy one, like ,subscribe and comment
Raise a 1 for the 1s that membah PROD o. City stars
I was a Huge supporter of the Brand, the Yellow and Red Dragonon the Mount, the Needle from the Record player and the Brickyard stand out as ones I had
I still Draw that Logo on things doodling around, I would definitely start repping them if they were to do Boards again
City Stars 4Life
Yeah I always hated that shit about the biz.. jump ship and shit all over the guys who got you there.. but that’s growing up I guess.. 🤷♂️
Seems like that's most industries, get big and level up to a bigger check 💰
You would lose your weight, dont worry, one UP ! XD
Yeah in hindsight reem got used by them little dudes they had no loyalty at all thats of course the end of a brand but come to think muska did the same by that i mean giving lil skaterats a chance and them guys sticked together 🤷🏻♂️
City Stars didn't make it through the 2010's. It was a wrap in 2003.
Guess I haven’t watched in a while. Ur rocking a Canadian mud flap, now.
Haha what’s a Canadian mud flap?
@@ShredzShop I assume it’s short in the front and long in the back. Can’t tell with the hat. No offense. I respect your cultural heritage.
Didn't Kareem just revived Axion a few years back? Been seeing it all over his Instagram
No he has nothing to do with it. They actually dissed him believe it or not.
I think he was involved for a minute … but stuff went sour.
you forgot 20 shot sequence vid tho which had the menace part and was 94-95.
Mikey Taylor's story is so surreal.
For those that don't know him and were told about him, they would think it's a meme.
But it isn't.
A horse who can skate, a love story.
🛹🛹🛹
What happened to Justin Case ?
Your facts are twisted, Kareem was supposed to do a sister brand to girl originally called "sister" but it ended up becoming chocolate when Kareem & shiloh had a change of mind
Justin case got hooked on drugs apparently also and went to prison
Menace was est in 1994. Not 1998
Mikey Taylor 😱
Did Justin case really passed away?
🍻🇨🇦
🙏🙏
Isn't micky Taylor a mayor
He’s on city council!
Taylor aged Bad in my opinion… looking like 50 🤐
That’s what happens when you sell your soul
@@dadboard To whom would he have done this?
@@rubberfooty capitalism
@@dadboard Would rather see him making front salads 🙏😅
50 is old for a horse, good on him for still galloping.
ROCCO IN LANAI WTF