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- Nov 5, 2014
RE: Andrew Reynolds’s and Duffel
Almost everyone worth looking up to in skateboarding is trash in some shape or form including Duffel and Reynolds.
Never forget the time when Big Brother Skateboarding interviewed Corey Duffel and Chris Nieratko asked him if his girlfriend ever felt like a lesbian (a jab at his his style of dress which was considered scene girl emo at the time) and his articulate response was:
“Well, we were sitting in Wendy’s once, and some nigger comes up to us, like, ‘Hey, lesbians, get down on your knees and give me some blow jobs right now.’ That’s the only time she has ever felt like a lesbian. He was some trashy nigger like [pro skater] Stevie Williams, like gold fronts, like sketchy, and had a pistol in his pocket, so I pretty much had to listen to whatever he said, like you don’t want to talk back to him, so that’s the only time she probably felt like a lesbian.”
This happened in the early 2000s and people still call him a racist, which he vehemently denies. It doesn’t help his case knowing that he’s also a devout Mormon and has been his entire life.
As for Reynolds, he’s a good dude for sure who had his problems with drugs and drink in the past but that’s behind him. He did however have a tendency of saying racist things to black people when he was blackout drunk. Or at least he used to until Gershon Mosley rocked his shit so hard he lost his front teeth.
To be fair though there’s tons of stories like these that we’ll never hear of that were successfully suppressed by the industry. Reynolds was especially messy during his junkie years himself.
An anecdote by Knox Godoy about how a he (a literal child at the time) made Andrew Reynolds cry for being a crackhead:

Almost everyone worth looking up to in skateboarding is trash in some shape or form including Duffel and Reynolds.
Never forget the time when Big Brother Skateboarding interviewed Corey Duffel and Chris Nieratko asked him if his girlfriend ever felt like a lesbian (a jab at his his style of dress which was considered scene girl emo at the time) and his articulate response was:
“Well, we were sitting in Wendy’s once, and some nigger comes up to us, like, ‘Hey, lesbians, get down on your knees and give me some blow jobs right now.’ That’s the only time she has ever felt like a lesbian. He was some trashy nigger like [pro skater] Stevie Williams, like gold fronts, like sketchy, and had a pistol in his pocket, so I pretty much had to listen to whatever he said, like you don’t want to talk back to him, so that’s the only time she probably felt like a lesbian.”
This happened in the early 2000s and people still call him a racist, which he vehemently denies. It doesn’t help his case knowing that he’s also a devout Mormon and has been his entire life.
As for Reynolds, he’s a good dude for sure who had his problems with drugs and drink in the past but that’s behind him. He did however have a tendency of saying racist things to black people when he was blackout drunk. Or at least he used to until Gershon Mosley rocked his shit so hard he lost his front teeth.
Gershon’s side said:I heard about an old incident you had with Andrew Reynolds back in 1998. What exactly happened?
That was just him feeling himself. Basically, something happened [when we were on tour together in] Australia, and I called him out for my perception of what was going on. I’ll just title it greed. At the time he said nothing to me. But then we come back to America and he comes at me at Long Beach Agenda—it was the year that Baker started—he comes at me with the children from that. I was probably stoned, but they looked like a pyramid! It was the littlest up to him in the middle, then it went down to the littlest on the other side.
This dude rolls up on me and tries to get all G like, “Yo, remember when we were in Australia and you said this shit?” I was thinking like, you didn’t even address it when I said shit to your face, and now you’re bringing all these children into it. I went to pat him on the shoulders like, “Dude, it’s not a big deal.” And he threw his arms up like, “What?” So we just walk off. But then the next trade show, people overhear Reynolds talking shit. They’re saying he said, “Fuck Gershon.” I walk in the middle of all of it looking at him, because that’s who the issue was with. I go, “Do you have a problem?” And he said yes, so I hit him.
When I hit him, I was the one that was wrong, because all he did was say words. But most of it comes from my life. I grew up in Compton, the way that things would go down there… If somebody was talking shit and you got to this point where you’re like, it’s established that you were talking shit, either you punch them or you fucking walk away. I didn’t go in there to just find out he was talking shit and punk out. I went in there because I was sick of it. Like, leave it alone or let’s deal with it. So I hit him. And then Jay Strickland saved him. Because if he’d tried to get up and fight me, I would have hurt him. I knocked his teeth out, and his speculation was that it was because he fell into the chairs, but he fell into the chair after stumbling for a bit. I hit him solid in the mouth.
Andrew’s version of the story was that he was super drunk.
Yeah he was! I might have had a buzz on, but I wasn’t drunk. One of the problems I had with the industry is that they egg these children on and don’t try to help them see shit better. The industry is pimping children and there’s no ethics in it. Skateboarding feels super aggressive but these dudes, if they were in the streets and somebody was about to punch them in the mouth, they would run away. All these supposed tough guys are just tough characters that ride skateboards. I don’t like watching that shit. I wasn’t really into Zero. Zero is like militant, like petty. Most of them were limited in their skills. They would only do like 3 tricks and jump down stuff all the time. Most of it was fisheye too so all of the stuff they were jumping down wasn’t as big or long as it looked. You have to remember that the action heroes are less than 2%, and the rest are posers. Most people only have like 4 tricks and they call themselves professional skateboarders.
Andrew’s side said:Another infamous tale, what is your side of the events surrounding the Gershon Mosley altercation?
Oh yes, of course. I’ll tell you exactly what happened.
I was on the verge of being blackout drunk. Totally loaded. I was at some video premier in San Diego and was just talking shit and being loud. I think I was rapping, too… I don’t know what all I was doing. But Anthony Mosley was with us, just hanging out and I kept on referring to him by his last name. Mosley this, Mosley that.
I think that Gershon may have thought I was talking about him when I was talking to a completely different person. But he came over and basically stepped to me. Now I don’t start fights but when I used to drink, I would get into it every now and then. I was loaded that night and said something like, “Get the fuck outta my face!” or whatever. He just socked me.
To be honest, I probably deserved it because I was being pretty shitty to him when he came over but my point was that I wasn’t even talking to him at all for him to step to me like that. I was talking to my friend Anthony Mosley. It was all a big misunderstanding.
But yeah, he punched me and I swirled around and whacked my face on a bus bench, cracking me teeth. I remember picking up this metal garbage can lid, trying to whack him with that. I was probably 10-feet away (laughs). In my mind, I was gonna get him but in reality, I was falling all over the place and I couldn’t even really see anybody. It was a mess. My friends end up pulling me off and I woke up the next day bummed. Typical shit that happens when I drink: get in a fight, crack my teeth… that’s why I don’t drink because everytime I did, I’d end up in jail, on drugs, my teeth cracked or something. Every single time. I could never really drink and have a good time. It was always a mess.
But I saw him the next day at the tradeshow. I figured I’d walk up to him and apologize because I was probably out of line. I’m the one with the bloody mouth. So I go up to him and am just like, “Hey, man, I’m sorry about that last night…” But I could see that he was literally beginning to shake and his eyes were getting all red. He was about ready to attack me again!
“Ok, I’m outta here.” (laughs)
I’m getting the hell away from that guy! Dude’s about ready to kill me!
To be fair though there’s tons of stories like these that we’ll never hear of that were successfully suppressed by the industry. Reynolds was especially messy during his junkie years himself.
An anecdote by Knox Godoy about how a he (a literal child at the time) made Andrew Reynolds cry for being a crackhead:
In more relevant news, I have always given Johnny Schillereff the benefit of the doubt but “All of Bam’s haters are hypocrites because drag show story time and black music bad” has to be one of the worst takes I’ve seen so far.Knox Godoy said:When you you started riding for Baker were those dudes really partying hard?
Fuck yeah, dude, did you ever see the Baker Tour 2001 footage? That’s the one that I was in. Dude, it was full-force party. Me and Terry are running around expensive hotels dumping water on everybody, breaking shit. I caught Reynolds in Chicago with a $100 sack of crack and I punched him in the mouth and he started crying, and then Trainwreck took the crack and flushed it down the toilet. I made that fool cry a couple of times. I was just a little kid calling him a piece of shit. I was a dickhead when I was little. I wouldn’t stop, I would just lay in, and these fools are adults so they can’t hit me and shut me up. I would just keep running my mouth, putting them down, making them feel low.
