Lil Nas X, Tony Hawk.Photo: Lil Nas X/instagram
Lil Nas Xteamed up with the skateboard legend for ahilarious tutorial videoshared on TikTok Monday to show off his — er, the skater’s — skills.
In the clip, the 22-year-old Grammy winner stood at the top of a half-pipe, wearing a black t-shirt and matching helmet paired with his “Satan Nikes.” Cradling one of Hawk’snew blood-infused skateboards, Lil Nas X introduced himself before promising a performance of difficult tricks.
When Hawk popped back up, the video cut back to Lil Nas X standing in the same spot, as if it had been the rapper skating all along.
“Nas he tweakin,” Hawkwrote on Twitter, sharing the video.
Lil Nas X, Tony Hawk.Lil Nas X/instagram
“Damn he almost look like Tony hawk,” one Twitter user deadpanned whensharing the video. Anotheradded, “Never knew Lil Nas X was so good at skating.”
The Lil Nas X-Hawk skating lesson comes a week after Hawk announced his new collection of skateboards infused with his blood. The boards are a limited-edition collaboration with Liquid Death, a canned water company that Hawk reps.
Liquid Death will bedonating 10 percent of profitsfrom the boards to the nonprofits 5Gyres and The Skatepark Project, CNN reported.
Last week, Lil Nas Xpointed outthat there was far less an outcry to Hawk selling products with blood in them than when hereleased his “Satan Shoes” in March. The shoes, which were a collaboration with MSCHF and made with Nike Air Max 97s, led to atrademark infringement lawsuit. Nike and the art collective eventually settled.
“Now that tony hawk has released skateboards with his blood painted on them, and there was no public outrage, are y’all ready to admit y’all were never actually upset over the blood in the shoes?” he tweeted. “And maybe u were mad for some other reason?”
source: people.com
