DGK: 14 Things You Didn't Know about DGK Skateboards
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Stevie Williams gets sponsored at 12 by Underworld Element skateboards, through meeting Jeff Pang, and has a part in the 1994, Element Fine Artists Video Vol.1
Later on, he ends up making friends with Chico Brenes, Tim Gavin, Mike Carroll and Rick Howard, and they add him to Chocolate soon after. They take a chance on Stevie and give him a spot on one of the most sought after teams. In 1999, he gets of Chocolate and DC shoes, and has video parts in Transworld’s the reason, hot chocolate tour, dc video, its official. Stevie Williams also has characters In Tony Hawk’s pro skater project 8, American wasteland, and the
NFL Street 2 video game.
Stevie and his friend Eli Soto co-owned Gold Weels together under the Kayo umbrella. Troy Morgan owner of Kayo becomes Stevies business partner going into it, they start DGK skateboards. In 2002, Stevie Williams shocks the skate worlds leaving Chocolate, starting DGK, or Dirty Ghetto Kids.
Together, Stevie grows up skateboarding in Philadelphia at Love park with guys like Josh Kalis. The park has been featured in so many videos, such as 411vm, the reason, DC video, Workshop videos, TWS the reason, Ricky Oyola etc.
Stevie creates Dirty Ghetto Kids in 2002. The early DGK team consisted of team riders such as Wade Desarmo, Lenny Rivas, Darren Harper, and Marcus McBride.
DGK has been a part of iconic videos such as the Kayo Corp Video, It’s Official, Transworld’s The Reason, 6th Sense, the DC Video, Blood Money, Saved, and more.
In 2004, DGK signed a massive shoe deal with Reebok to launch the RBK-DGK line; it was a 3 year multi-million dollar deal. Stevie notes that on his worst months he was making over 100k a year on the complex sneaker podcast.
DGK has since collab’d with Zero skateboards, Bruce Lee, Cup Noodles, Diamond, ES, Love Park, High Times, and G shock watches.
In 2012, DGK was hurting bad. With the boards in Macy’s, the brand’s image was starting to lose core status, and at the same time was being sued by Rick Ross for an unpaid contract. Team riders weren’t getting paid, and were starting to leave.
DGK has since recovered, releasing it’s most recent video “Saved.” Their team now consists of Stevie Williams, Dane Vaughn, Josh Kalis, John Shanahan, Marcus McBride, Chaz Ortiz, and Boo Johnson.
Most recently, DGK has started to regain a street wear status, working even with Virgil Abloh of Louis Vuitton to release limited edition collections. Stevie even notes at one point he received a call from Michael Jackson, to visit the Neverland Ranch, along with Chad Muska. - Sport
If DGK could steal any skater past or present who should they steal for the DGK team?! ALSO: Who is your fav DGK team rider of all time.
Cookiehead Jenkins on DGK
Do one on Primitive please
Lava mcbride for rider and rodrigo tx he always been a beast
Prod might’ve been good fit for DGK back in the day. Keenan was maybe my fav
wade desarmo rightfully belongs to dgk
The line about Guy helping Stevie when he was homeless in Cali made me think how Guy ended up in a similar situation a few years later and he’s now back on his feet too. The skate community is surprisingly good about trying to look out for each other.
true!
The only thing is when u talked about him running away at 14 u left out the part where he went home and Kalis brought him back to skating and gave him a place to live and then he got on chocolate u made it seem like when he ran away he got put on
Yea, we coulda touched on that more! It's hard to fit everything in!
STEVIE F'N WILLIAMS! the reason I skate. Walking through love park after school. Seeing him make Bam look terrible. Ctfu. Philly over here. WC over there!
Levi is a true pro. How he keeps a straight face in the end part with all the athletes names is beyond me. One thing that I'm finding is weird is to get DGK decks I have to go to the mall and buy from Zumiez. If I go to my local skate shops they don't carry DGK.
The “comment of the week” response was a banger! LOL
XD XD
Both josh kalis and Stevie Williams dope asf
The Love park legends.
I just wanna say RIP Expedition One
Definitely and Organika!
Stevie is one of the best switch skaters of all time
I feel like Guy Mariano and Jeron Wilson woulda been dope on DGK back in the day.
Fav DGK rider of all time is DGKWADE!!!!
Love Wade D!
One of my favorite skaters at DGK is Jackson Curtin. His Nollie Frotnside Noseblunt Slide for a intro banger to It's Official says it all.
Jack Curtin always had the dopest sw back smith. So much style
stevie looks just like kader- same kind of ferociousness in the eyes- you shoulda talked about his kickflip in the Three 6 Mafia video
Jack Curtin was in the original line up of DGK as well as the whole RBK deal
I still have one of the first boards DGK put out in 04' as well as 2 shirts, when they had Kayo on the tags. My first legit skate shoe were the DC Williams. I also got to meet Stevie and get a pic with him at the Kayo Its Official tour. Legend 🙌
So dope!! DC has been re-releasing those Wlliams shoes in a slimmed down version and they actually look really good.
FINALLY YES
Sasuke skates?!?
@@jackslavingaming9106 yessirrr
Sasssssukeeeee!
NARUTOOOOOOOOOOOO
DGK for life! 💯 Stevie and Kalis are both skate goat's and my 2 all time favorites!! Got a Kalis love park graphic, definitely one of my all time favs!!
Man Stevie Williams so huge on all his tricks love watching him skate DGK 4 life
Do Ipath!!
haha I would need to hunt down someone that can help with some interview on Ipath!
Best brand for skateboards hoodies and shirts DGK ALL DAY!!!💯💯💯
The ending is so good. A happy one…Neverland…spicy comment response.
117 grand in fines is the biggest flex in all of skating
hahah agreed
Yes ive been asking for this since augest
I went fishing with Muska's step dad. That was interesting. He's from the town next to my hometown in Ohio.
amazing content as always! hope to see more projects in the future, like different content, etc.. 😁👍
Stoked you enjoyed!! We've got some rad new ideas in the works!
just copped a DGK board a couple days ago! love the content guys
love your 14 things you didn't know about _____________ videos keep up the good work homies
LOL!!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
well played Shredz Shop. Well played.
I normally log off before this part of the vid. But fate have it, for some reason I made it to the end. 👍
Now this vid must be shared. Cheers 🥂
Btw. Steve Williams is not just my favorite DGK rider. But Favorite skater and business man in the skateboard industry.
haha stoked you enjoyed!
Glad you've got love for Stevie!
Haven’t watched your vids in a while so this is the first I’ve seen the new background and I love it! And love your vids ♥️
Awesome! Thanks Jack! Hyped you enjoyed!!
Of course my favorite is Wade Desormeaux and any of his Top Of The World boards. I like seeing that he still reps Top. Thems were the days.
Parental advisory was the first skate tape I ever watched, from there it was history. Been hooked ever since.
That’s a rad first video! 👊🏻
@@ShredzShop shame Fernandez had to try and chase SoundCloud rapping. He was my first fav skater.
@@HauntedMound666 Yea, I think he had some trouble with the law and got a little shunned in the skate world.
@@ShredzShop Word? I never knew that, thought he just dropped out from DGK just to rap
👍 you cats pulling through with some good shit on another rainy Saturday. Gimme at least 10 minutes of skate nerd goodness. In dgk fashion "gimme a hot minute of straight fire homie"
fun on sunshine in u.k today :)
Stoked you enjoyed!
That MJ ender part is dope! Awesome video as always :)
Thanks! Hyped you enjoyed!!
The muska/MJ story I didn’t expect at all 😂
thanks for video !
These videos are straight 🔥 aye
Thank you! Stoked you enjoy em!
Been waiting on this one.
Hope you enjoyed!
I loved the dgk otter pop decks they’ve always been my favorite I have two ltd and hand numbered dgk decks ones a ugk and the other is a dipset
He sounds like jay from silent Bob this channel is dope I've subscribed
hahaha that's sick you think he sounds like Jay!!
Honestly it’s Stevie, Kalis and Ortiz as my favorite team riders. I also had a pair of the Dgk x Rbk shoes they were the first skate shoes I owned when I started skating.
my fav graphs of them are the tribute collection for sure, but I never ever rode any DGK till now .
They're good boards for sure!
Do a 14 on Element or Bam Margera/Element
You should do a video on chocolate
It's on our list! Would be a huge one for sure!
One of the first things I ever saw in a skate mag was Stevie Williams doing a switch heel over a table. Sometime in 2001, I believe. It was definitely an interview. Maybe that Thrasher with Ed Templeton on the cover that had the Ed Templeton retrospective? Stevie Williams has always been one of my favorite skaters since then, even though I was always more into the punk rock side of skating because I was already into punk rock. Hip hop culture was so different from what I was already into, but at the same time it was still skateboarding, so it was really just like a breath of fresh air that there was this whole other side of things I didn't have access to with punk rock alone. With skateboarding there's a vast spectrum of different countercultures represented. I always felt I couldn't just listen to rap before I got into skateboarding. Of course I could have, I was just still caught up in the whole rocker vs. rapper dumb middle school shit. My new skater friends listened to everything because everything was in skate videos. Skateboarding helped me to relate to a much wider range of people with different backgrounds and mentalities, and I love it for that.
Edit: yep, there's that photo: 1:23
That's rad! Thanks for sharing the story!
Yea I wanna say that is in a old Skateboarder mag with the Switch heel. I definitely remember that photo blowing my mind as well, that Chocolate kinda soccer logo deck!
DGK is where its at
My name is Derek Gant and I grew up with Jonas Wray and his brother Jeremy Wray I loved skating with these guys ... I rode BMX and dirt bikes amongst street raced cars I built .... I loved riding with Mike the Rooftop Escamilla and that's been my life... I want to bring DGK back and open sponsors in BMX and FMX as well.... After all I'm Derek Gant and you are all my kids!! (DGK) I'm in Oregon but can be mobile let me know if I could help DGK become the thing to wear again and something everyone wants to be a part of again!!
Please do 14 things about Blind!!!
Best ending everrr.
GOLD WHEEL CO made the best wheels right at the end they were called white golds they were widish and 104 duro , wish I knew where they were made , Shanahan is one my faves on DGK rides for Bronze 56K too
I love these videos
Thanks! Hyped you enjoy em!
The Bruce Lee boards are dope
is there a burton elite swallowtail in the background?
I
Love
Skateboarding!
since you already did airwalk, maybe you can do more "dead" brands (e.g. adio)?
Adio shoes were so comfortable to skate in
DGK ALL DAY!
Best graphics
Do know what would be killer
Thunder
It’s on our list!! 👊🏻👊🏻
My first board was a kalis “seek” board, it had green checkers. Not sure if that was his brand before or after alien workshop. Wish I could find another one, I absolutely destroyed it cause it was my only board for years as a kid then I cut it into a cruiser haha. So many memories with that board
I’ve got that board you’re talking about. Kalis was on Alien from 95-2002, then joined Seek til late 2004, then went back to Alien after Seek went out of business.
@@PhilLayshioh that’s awesome! Someone just gave me the deck for free I remember going to the local shop getting royal trucks and Tony hawk wheels, think it had lime green grip at one point 😂 chipped like crazy
Shout out sir!!! Ks rs!!! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🔥🔥🔥
What ist That intro Song? Cant geht it out of my head
My favorite DGK rider is Steve William,but I meet Chad MUSKA at 2018 Long Beach Trade show he was making hos own company GrimReaper Called Projects I took a picture and him and he sign my red Projects hat on the led says MUSKA.
Are you still going to do aesthetics or 23 skateboards?
Yea Aesthetics would be sick!! We’ll have to line up an interview for it! Some of the older brands are hard to find information on.
Also just wanted to add I wasn't trolling or hatin I love these videos just thought I'd add to ur info is all
Of course! Appreciate the input!! 🙌🏻
That ending was so f#ckin funny 😂😂🤣🤣
YESSSS FINALLY
Best touchdowns of the entire sports! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I was able to get Virgil abloh dgk deck. I was so stocked I got 98/100 lol do iPath next I loved those shoes!
🔥🔥🔥
i love dgks graphics but i got a complete and the wheels are stuffed but its skateable so fuck it
Awesome
thank you!!
Never forget 211. Also the donger skated for puma
Ooooof Donger was the best
Can you do fallen please!!!
A young stevie Williams looks like Kader. God I love josh Kalis
Can you guys make a video about a sorta pro model by Pa'din Musa Vans model the first Malaysian to get a model from Vans which is yellow and black which two different shoe which is the old skool and the era
what would be some really respected teams now upset for FA?
Yesssssssss
Favourite skater wade d and I loved there classic dead rappers with the quota on it I hade the easy e one
Jereme Holmes & Henry Sanchez were also original pros. Also most ppl don't know that Wade Des Armos is a World Champion black belt in Karate
Damn, thats a good fact!!
I am still holding my Dipset x DGK deck iykyk
14 things you didn’t know about PIG
Every DGK video blows my mind, some heavy ripping.
I think the original DGK squad was Stevie Williams, Marcus Mcbride, Jeremy Holmes , Henry Sanchez and Lenny Rivas but i can be wrong too
Aaahhhh siiiiick
You should do 14 things you didn’t know about emerica 🇺🇸
PRod on DGK would’ve been sick hahaha
You should do a 14 things you didn't know about polar
It’s on our list! Gonna try and interview Pontus for it
Shout out Steve Nash tho, one of greatest Canadian basketball players
He makes nice Gyms.
Can we get one on eS shoes
We're workin' on it!
Michael Jordan, we just talked about Jordan. Stevie went to his ranch.🤣⚰
Do WKND!
An open umbrella?! 😦😮🤯
SHUT or MENACE ✊🏼
Peter smolik and brandon would be a good addition.
I actually own and currently riding one of their boards and they always catch my eyes cause of the name
14 things you didn't know about hookups skateboards
working on it!
I'm definitely gonna watch it once it comes out
Plz make a video about blind
It’s on our list!
Thanks
Levi is the shit. I hope he makes 300k per year
He makes WELL over 300K!
@@ShredzShop haha I can rest easy then
Dang. I wish lol
Do big brother mag
That'd be rad!
What happened to babyscumbag????
Marcus mcbrides roll light smoke deck
Dwyane Fagundes?