So it was like, ‘ok if we’re not going to shoot a skate photo then I got this cool wall over here, or there’s this cool lighting thing happening and let’s see if we can do something…’ I just wanted to continue creating and skateboard photography can be somewhat limiting in that, although I will say that there are skateboard photographers today who I think have really taken the limitations of trying to be out there and getting a good skate photo and turned them into really, really good exercises of understanding the craft and expanding on what notes you want to play with the people that you’re with. I also think people today realise how important it is to shoot everything. Yeah the whole attitude of those guys and that brand of skating can be summed up with: just keep moving. Yeah I remember there was a thing where everyone would meet up at Sub-Zero (old Philly skate shop) off South Street and there was a line to take all the way to Love Park and they knew all these things to hit on the way. So it was one continuous line from Sub-Zero to Love. Another feted rhymesmith stood behind Souls in the Hiero queue - an emcee known as Casual - and all the crew benefitted from producer/manager Domino's input; so there was something for the band to build on, and a story to tell that showed they were part of a movement, not just Del's mates latching on to his coat-tails, and therefore likely to fall by the wayside if his career faltered.

Except for in (Washington) DC though, ha ha! Remember how stoked they were to shoot ‘chill photos’? The group weren't just propping themselves up on a diet of recently absorbed east-coast lyricism, either. While the sound that Souls essayed came as something of a surprise in 1993 to a rap fan conditioned to think of New York being about the wordplay and California as the home of the smoothed-out gangsta flow, there was a long-seated tradition of west-coast lyricism. In LA, Freestyle Fellowship and the Pharcyde had made their own waves, while Ices Cube and T were hardly an advert for the sing-song approach. And Cypress Hill's deliberately enigmatic 1991 debut had people wondering if they were from the New York enclave of that name.He had a little part in the first Spitfire video sometime around then. I dunno if this was after this comp, but anyways he was skating around a contest in that part and you could immediately tell his skating stood out. Yeah I didn’t think I was able to do what Dan Wolfe did for that particular group of guys. Stills just didn’t show the energy and the rawness, the speed, etc.… Not to say that people didn’t do that type of skating before, you know you look at Julien Stranger… Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. With this year’s 2021 Summer Olympics hosted in Tokyo, Japan, skateboarding will make its Olympic debut; augmenting both park and street competitions for men and women. As this book is a culmination and photographic collection of the past three decade’s growth of skateboarding throughout the US focusing in on the pivotal decade of the 1990s, the addition of this sport in the summer’s upcoming games is of considerable relevance to the skateboarding pioneers featured in this work.

its creation. Souls were the focus and the named artist, but the Hiero ecology was working as one. It's a remarkable achievement.

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And on that same note, some of the skaters that were the biggest guys of 1992, someone like Chris Fissel, by the time ’94 or ’95 came along they were gone. That this wasn't anywhere near as vast or all-encompassing or ambitious or limitless in scope as the sounds on the records they made was hardly their fault - but it's the one piece of the puzzle that doesn't quite fit.