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...hawks can fly. This one can do a heart-stopping double somersault in midair and then land on a tiny, moving plank of wood. But ask Tony Hawk, 18, what it takes to pull off an inimitable skateboard stunt and he blithely answers, "You just get the courage up and do it." That combination of aggressive athleticism and laid-back languor?lassitude with attitude?has propelled the lanky 6-ft. blond from Carlsbad, Calif., to the front of the professional skateboarding pack. Hawk (his real name) has won all three of the National Skateboard Association titles previously awarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...quite obliging: he built a wooden Alamo, equipped with an armadillo-shaped drawbridge, for a Dallas elementary school and fashioned a crude telephone system out of three-inch plastic piping for Hamilton, Va. Safety considerations, however, usually force him to reject water slides, underground tunnels, bike racetracks and skateboard ramps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Johnny Appleseed of the Swing Set | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...this Chicago-born Jay-Z protégé relies on orchestral swells far more than beats, and his subjects range from an indictment of rap fantasies ("Now come on everybody, let's make cocaine cool/ We need a few more half-naked women up in the pool") to a gentle skateboard romance as innocent and sincere as Annette Funicello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Best Albums | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...garden party of porn king Jackie Treehorn. In this case, we are the Dude, the Clipse are those two Treehorn enforcers who pissed on our rug and boss us around, Slim Thug is the totally out-of-place naked woman on the trampoline, and “Skateboard P” is Treehorn himself. Like Treehorn’s party, the video has that unmistakable “weird cult” subtext going on—I highly doubt anyone but Pharrell really knows what “wamp wamp” means, but he?...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: The Clipse feat. Slim Thug | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...everybody, let’s make cocaine cool / We need a few more half naked women up in the pool.” It’s clear that Fiasco could become one of hip-hop’s premier lyricists. He has tremendous range, scribing the light-hearted skateboard romance “Kick, Push” and Sturm und Drang issue songs like “He Say She Say” and “Hurt Me Soul.” “The Cool” tells the mesmerizing story of a murdered gangster...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lupe Fiasco | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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