No Bad Blood Between Lil Nas X and Tony Hawk

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Sources claim that there was no bad blood between Lil Nas X and Tony Hawk when they met to film a skate tutorial following the debacle about Hawk’s blood-infused skateboard.

The rapper posted pictures of their meet up on 30th August. The photos showed Lil Nas X proudly holding up the sold-out Hawk Blood Deck that has two vials of the legendary athlete’s blood infused with red paint. On 24th August,  the canned mountain water company Liquid Death revealed the limited-edition product in a graphic video announcement, where Hawk said that part of the profits from the board would go toward “killing plastic pollution and to building skate parks in underserved communities.” While talking to Forbes he mentioned that the inspiration behind the blood-infused deck came from a 1977 Kiss comic book that has real blood in the ink. 

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Reports from Billboard say that, Nas took it to the skate park to help out struggling skateboarders on how to perform vert tricks in a TikTok tutorial. But the real trick is spotting Hawk actually performing them as his stunt double. “Nah WE tweakin,” Lil Nas X captioned the moment, a clever play on his previous, ultra-viral “nah he tweakin” comment under Rap’s original Instagram post. On his Instagram Story, Nas shared a picture of the back of the board, which not only contains Hawk’s blood but also his signature. “Montero – we tweakin,” read the short message.

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In the spring, in order to promote his hit Montero (Call Me By Your Name), Lil Nas X tied up with MSCHF a New York based design company to launch 666 pairs of limited-edition Satan Sneakers that may or may not have contained human blood in the midsole. Later Nike filed a lawsuit against MSCHF for trademark infringement, claiming the studio materially altered the sportswear brand’s popular Air Max 97 design without permission, which has since been settled

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On 25th August, Lil Nas X tweeted in his defense saying, “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? and maybe u were mad for some other reason?”

Check out Lil Nas X’s post below:

-Aditi

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