I saw the skateboard Video "Sick Boys" in 1990, even though it came out in 1988. As opposed to Powell Peralta videos that were polished and directed or H-Street videos that were segmented into fish-eye lensed, team rider chapters, Mack Dawg Productions shot film of friends (mostly pro skaters) skating all the hot spots in California. The narration by Bryce Kanights gave any skater outside of Cali an idea of how to 'speak' skater. When I approached DJ Crucial about the idea of a "Sick Boys" skater rap album (twenty years after the original release of the video) based on our lives growing up as whiteboy, skaterboarder, rap listeners in West County St. Louis, he said, "sounds rad," as only Crucial can do. We spent the year of 2007 watching ALL of our old skate vids, searching for skits, samples and any kind of reference to that essence we felt as teenagers of what 'cool' was. It was easy. We're still both avid skaters with very child-like qualities. We've been filming our own skate vids every three years since 1