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[EPICLY LATER'D]
-Whatcha all wanna do? Chill by the pool? -Yeah.
Can you close that door behind me please?
Got my little weights out there.
I already worked out this morning.
You know, I woke up at seven.
And then I was gonna go to the park but
those fools didn't want to go.
***' hot out.
***'s cool right? You like it?
I just be chillin'.
You know like...
So, I wake up early like...
Since I don't drink narly like I usually do
like I used to...
You know, I'd probably have like, a beer or some ***
but that's nothing, you know?
It's just like, poolside chillin'.
That pretty much comes with it.
You're sitting by the pool, you gotta have a beer and a blunt.
That's like, madatory, you know?
It's not like how I used to get wasted, you know?
Welcome back to the show.
Since we started the show, there's like a shortlist of people
like, dream episodes, you know?
And I think Antwuan Dixon, for me is one of those people
that just really blew up.
Came out with a Baker 3 video.
No one had ever heard of him.
At the premiere, people were yelling at the screen
like, standing on their seats.
[ANTWUAN DIXON] It was really like a triumphant entrance into skating.
Antwuan Dixon is a legend.
I mean, from the tattoos all over his face
to him being one of the most gifted skateboarders.
And you'll see from his footage
[PHOENIX AM APRIL 2010] he goes to this contest and people just swarm him.
You know, kids are like, breaking it off
and Antwuan comes in
no skateboard, nothing
and almost like wins the contest.
Shows up...kids are like, worshipping him.
Older skaters are trying to give him drugs and alcohol.
Yeah, it was like he emerged from the contest victorious.
The stuff I filmed is from 10am til about 8pm.
He's in and out of handcuffs.
Like, I'd never been surrounded by that many cops.
And then I think at about 8pm, I kinda had enough and I left.
The paradox is that he's actually kind of a mellow dude when he's not drunk
when people aren't giving him drugs.
I'm hoping just to explore that.
Who is Antwuan Dixon? What is...
What's his story?
And this is it. Antwuan Dixon Episode.
Hope you enjoy it.
What are you gonna ask Jim and Eric about...Lizard?
-Yeah. -Antwuan?
-What about Lizard? -I'm gonna do a Lizard episode
and an Antwuan episode.
How'd you first hear of him?
[ERIK ELLINGTON PRO SKATER]
I first heard of Antwuan probably five or six years ago
and Angel Cabada from KR3W and Supra showed me a tape,
I don't know how he got it
but he was like, "You gotta check this kid out."
And he was like, 15
just killing it.
How'd you get approached to get on Baker?
By Eric and Andrew at the trade show,
while I was watching...
Eric's ***...
they were showing him doing...
And then I seen him and he's like, "Wait. Antwuan Dixon?"
I was like...
"Yeah."
You know what I'm saying?
Like, what the ***? They know me?
That's why I was like, "Yeah?"
And then they're like, "So like, yeah."
And then he goes and gets Andrew
and they're like, "Yeah. Some blah blah blah blah."
"So, we like you something funny. We wanna give you a board."
And I was like, "For real? Like, damn."
Me and Andrew asked him if he wanted to get boards from Baker
and he was like, "Yeah."
Just real humble, mellow kid.
Really, really mellow and was like, "Yeah. Sure. Sure."
Filming the Baker 3
hear about this kid that they put on
[JIM GRECO PRO SKATER]
that was just like, the most unbelievable thing.
Then I finally seen his part at the premiere
and I was like, ***' blown away.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
You know, it's my first premiere.
My name's on the ***' TV.
People were like, not really saying nothing.
And then they were like, "What the ***? Who's this fool?"
But it was so crazy. I was like, looking
and they were clapping and clapping as it's going on
and then after, dude, people just went crazy.
So once it was over, I walked outta there
and then I felt like....
and I was just like...
It was the craziest thing
like, the craziest overwhelming feeling like....
like, you know what I mean?
It was weird but it wasn't like...
At the time I was just feeling like...
Like, Oh my God. It was weird.
Like, I felt like crying.
I can't even *** explain it.
I was just probably so ***' happy.
Every little kid's dream was to get on Bakers.
After that, it was like, being on was like a green light to just be the best
or something like that.
For a certain period of time
he was getting like, two or three tricks a day.
Like, narly ***. Like, easily.
And it was all Baker 3
and then I made this, Baker Has a Deathwish.
He had a full length part in that one.
That was like, all of Antwuan.
Those three videos. That's like, his career to me, so far, you know?
So when we approached Antwuan like,
"We're starting Deathwish as a board company. You wanna ride for it?"
He was kinda, automatically into it
cause he'd been writing the script forever, and stuff like that.
He hadn't gone pro yet?
No. He turned pro for Deathwish.
And there was a demand for his board
and you know, he's really good with like,
you know, he's a really charismatic dude
so like, at signings and stuff
he's just, kinda the center of attention
and just seems like, once all that stuff comes together
you just go, "Oh yeah. He should be pro."
Just to watch him to a 3 flip
[SHANE HEYL SHAKE JUNT] or a crook back 180.
It's just like, how do you do it like that?
And you have all these other kids trying to mimic his style.
That's just how he skates. He's just chillin'.
Arms down, kinda relaxed and that's how he does it.
You see people faking the funk where it's just like,
they're like, trying so hard to be like him.
It's like, "Come on, man. You can't do that."
What skaters did you look up to?
There was one dude that I, you know, loved
out of everybody, you know?
And I still do.
Who's that?
His name's Gailea Momolu.
"[BATTALION" (2003)]
Best, you know what I'm saying?
Black power.
Real quick, you know.
I don't know. It was just like that. That's why like....
He's the man of that ***. I just loved how he did it.
So I wanted to learn it like him.
You know what I mean? So that's why he's my favorite.
He's got bomb *** trade flips, Nollie tailslide...
Nollie hill backflip.
He's the *** ***.
He's so good.
My other favorite skaters are Theotis Beasley.
That's my baby.
He's been there, you know?
Just like how he's seen me
just like how I've seen him.
We came from nothing to something.
Two little hood ni**gers just, you know...***.
Yeah, I knew him for years.
Yeah, kinda like my brother.
We all grew up around the same area.
[THEOTIS BEASLEY AMATEUR SKATER] Me, Antwuan and Furby.
but then Antwuan was on Deathwish and I'm on Baker.
Just everybody in the same little area happened to be part of the same family
and that's real tight.
Yeah, Antwuan. That's my boy.
He always looked out for me and...
Yeah, it's fun when we always go on trips together.
Everybody together's real fun.
And then my other one is ***' Moose.
Oh my God. That kid is ridiculous.
He is so ***' good.
He's the coolest little, nicest little kid, man.
Moose, you're the man, dude.
You're gonna be the...
He's a consistent ***.
He's gonna be like...I swear.
[CONTINUED IN PART 2]