J.T. Rhoades photos

Ian

when do you wanna do that interview and what did you have in mind

you gonna try and bring upo the past and embarrass a ninja?

Tosh

I dont have much dirt on you

I was however gonna ask about your notorious front-board

Ian

what front board?

Tosh

on the beach rail

Tosh

fine

be that way

Ian

sorry i was out smoking

what beach rail son

Tosh

didnt you front board that 17 rail at the beach in cbad

i frontboarded the 10 of it

Ian

fool i wish that was brett, you got your members mixed up. but we can act like i did

Tosh

brett who?

oh

prais duh

Ian

prais

Tosh

fuck

Ian

ha

Tosh

I thought that was you for literally like 10 years

Ian

thats hilarious. so I am not as ill as you thought. ha

Tosh

 no you are

 just slightly less

Ian

thanks asshole

jussskeed. I wish that fool still skated. fool is burnt toast

Tosh

 are you sober now?

Ian

I drink a little on the weekends. smoke weed if I had a long day at work but thats it. no beaks for this fool. wasted too much damn time wasting away. ready to give it all I got son

Tosh

 the reason I ask is because you talk about coffee alot… and AA people usually do that

 I feel you so hard on that

 fuck the party

 Im off that shit

 I work my ass off and kick it

 kicking it is tight

Ian

I never thought of it that way. I do drink a lot of coffee. It just gets me ready to do shit

Tosh

 so much better than feeling like you are gonna die everyday

Ian

kicking it is tight, but not if thats all you do. I know a lot ofg fools that think if they go out and get an ill trick once in awhile its fine for them to chill, but then that chill session turns into a habit

Tosh

 thing is…

 I’m not trying to do something on my skateboard anymore

 I’m trying to do things involving skateboarding

 I skate for fun

 sounds super gay to say that

 cuz everyone skates for fun

 but, I’m trying to write, and do my clothing line

Ian

I feel you, I got depressed a little bit a few years back cause I had acl surgery and lost my insurance shortly after, so the healing process took me doing it myself over a year instead of the 4 to 6 months it should have.

Tosh

 I’m 23 years old. my bones are brittle. no hope for this dude.

Ian

I wrote a lot too,. me and BB are going to do a collab bookk i think

Tosh

 fuck yeah

Ian

cause he does the art shit and I do the writing

Tosh

 thats ill as fuck

Ian

the idea is to work off eachothers shit and give it a story

for instance he would draw a picture and i would make the story and vice versa for every other page

Tosh

thats sick. its like a kids book but not for kids

 same format

 fuck dude… wanna know the best book ever like that!?

 scary stories to tell in the dark

Ian

pretty much. we were looking at a shel siverstein book and got inspired by that. keep it simple but give it an adult twist of some sort

Tosh

 best illustrations

Ian

yeah that book is tight

Tosh

 I want to get some tattoo’s from that bewk

Ian

do it fool, im fitting to get a joke tattoo pretty soon

Tosh

 did you know that shel siverstein was severely abused as a child

Ian

you know how fools get the shape of the state of california

Tosh

he had the worst childhood imaginable

yeah (Ca shape)

Ian

didn’t know that. thats why his work is so tight. he is living out his “perfect happy dream world” through his words and what he must have wanted. all makes sense now

yeah, the CA shape but make it look like a tortilla and have meat and french fries coming out of the top and it would be a “california burrito” shit would be tight

i don’t want to see that on your arm the next time i see you wither

either

you know who’s art is tioght as shit

Ron English. you heard of him? google that fool. amazing

Tosh

dude

fuck you

im not a tat jacker

haha

Ian

i was jussskeeed fool. 

Tosh

fuck it dude… im just gonna make this be your interview

Ian

you still wanna do that interview, even though i’m halfway as tight as you thought or what?

Tosh

ill copy and past this motherfucker

Ian

fool… not even… i want re do fool…

Tosh

fine… startover

16

do tell…

Ian

What about it. Shit was tight. I was a little kid skating around South O and I happened to show up at a spot where Jimmy was skating and then the next week Rodney (Tm at the time) randomly stopped me whiule skating down the strand and he asked me if I was down

Tosh

btdubs… Ron English is super tight. He is like the poster child for “Juxtapoz” mag

Ian

Then from there it was a wrap. Shitty thing was is that I broke my knee and dislocated my elbow within a year while filming for that video. So my time got cut off.

Tosh

 Some pretty heavy hitters came out of the 16 camp

Ian

but it couldn’t have happened at a better time

Tosh

 name some of them for me

Ian

yeah for real. a lot of fools that are big as shit right now got their start

Fuck Spanky, Slash, Zerred, Dicola

the list goes on

Tosh

 garret

Ian

yeah he was on after Rodney left to World though I think

Same with Slash

Tosh

speaking of garret, did you know that he had a list of people he wanted to kill and I was #1 on it

Ian

never the less, that little Oside cxompany made a huge impact and a great start for a lot of fools

fool that sucks for you man. Why is that.

But shit was tight, it happened perfectly for me. My pops died and my mom went back to work. did the whole wlefare shit so the free goodies definitely helpoed out a lot financially on my mom dukes. big up to Mother Theresa

Tosh

because we were partying with him one night (James and I) and James pissed in a bottle and made Garret drink it. Then that fag blamed it all on me!

 Thats rough shit man…

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Ian

Damn son. some shit has definitely happened like that at the NS mansion for sure!

Tosh

 How was school and shit for you… living with just you and your mom… her working and shit

Ian

yeah pretty rough, but fuck it. Made me grow up quick and learn alot of shit from some ill ass fools with mad knowledge

Tosh

some of the older NS heads?

 who did you get the know-how from?

Ian

My older sister helped raised me. My family dynamic is tight. We were strong and persevered and fought through the tough times

Tosh

Thats what makes or breaks a man… The willingness to survive and continue the fight

 And you have got the fuck out of that.

Ian

Mad fools. Ranging from a lot fo older South O heads, non skate related. But shit man. Brett Prais is like my big bro. he showed me what was good. and then there is the OG’s like Alex and Thorpe and all of my brothers friends that tought me how to skate

Tosh

Good people right there man.

Ian

Yeah nothing can hold you down when you have that sparkle in your eye and you want to makew it happen

For reals son.

fucking type-o’s fool.

Tosh

So whats good now? On and off the board?

Ian

I have OCD when it comes to words and shit man

I live by the quote “If it’s not right, it’s fucking wrong”

Tosh

 hahah I like that

Ian

Well I work full time and this daylight savings time bullshit fucking is lame as shit. But the weekends its on.

Wake up, two cups of coffee, mad smokes. shower it up and meet up with the homies

it sucks though cause all the homies are on opposite schedules. like the weekends are their off days. so sometimes i wake up at 8 o’clock and go to thew beach and get coffee and make about a million calls to wake fools up and shit

it all works out though, no complaints.

Tosh

Dude I feel you on that

 I wake up at 5am every morning to go to work… I get off at 2:30 and half the fools I know are still asleep

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Ian

i’m just happy to be able to work full time with awesome people who teach me alot and want me to grow. That huge to me. I couldn’t be any more gratful. Thanks to the Brixton family on that shit. For reals son!

where do you work at?

Tosh

King graphics

 I silkscreen all of DC’s orders

 Innes…

Ian

and still be able to skate as much as I can and do what I love. Not many people

Tosh

A lot of skate shit

Ian

Oh word son, thats tight. One of my bosses first jobs (i think) was doing that shit. And look at him now. Those dudes are a success stroy. Good things happening to the right dudes

Tosh

Dude, lets talk about Jimmy Assleford’s (or however you spell his name) part in “I hate children”

 Mini muska! hella techno

 I LOVE IT!

 I wish i still had that video

Ian

Jimmy is a G. I learned a lot from him.

Tosh

Jimmy is the best

Ian

I got fucked on my song fool and still get made fun of so fucking muhc. I remember being at the premier and walking out pissed as shit

Tosh

what was it?

 im gonna youtube that shit right now

Ian

Anyway. Jimmy is tight as shit and kills it at everything he does. I don’t see him that often. Maybe I’ll shoot that fool a ring

fool. shit was weak son. dont even know what its called. all i know is the beat of it

song ruined my life. ha. jusssskeeeeed.

Tosh

I just looked for it

 its not on youtube

Ian

I’m just hyped i got to be a part of it. I’m gratful for everything in life

Tosh

you arent even famous dude

Ian

yeah probably not. part was weak son. i was like 10 fool.

Tosh

thats so nuts

 soooo young

Ian

duh i could have told you that man. I am a normal dude. Blue collar.

Tosh

how old are you now?

Ian

Yeah dude for real.

deuce deuce. Bout to be Michael Jordan on the 8th of December son. you should mob down. we go bowling every tuesday which my birthday just happens to fall on. Shit is tight

homies got down this week. Busted the fuck out of someones nose

Tosh

I heard

Ian

blood everywhere type shit. and we get to go back and bowl for free

Tosh

O-side don’t fuck around

Ian

lets hear your story, leave the names out cause that dude is weird about that shit and don

t want to put him on blast

dont

Tosh

I don’t even know…

 I just heard someone got hit at the alley

 I dont even know who told me… I think it was lannie or jt

Ian

probably JT

you want to hear it?

Tosh

go fer it

 connect four

Ian

fuck where do i start

alright so here goes

Ian

me, Richie, Slash, Frex and Baca doing our thing. dollar 50 beers just having fun and shit. This drunk ass mark buster was next to us and kept being a fucking kook so slash called him out all super G and shit.

so then Brian bowls, turns around and walks back toward all the homies. Meanwhile, that drunk ass munson fag picks up a 14 pund ball and throws it at Slash’s back. Luckily it missed him.

he then turns around and knocked that fool straight in his nose pice

piece

Tosh

He threw a bowling ball at slash!?!?!

 WTF

Ian

hoimie got knocked the fuck out. nose all busted and leaking bood all over the placxe

yeah fool. dude is an idiot

anyway, security mobs up to us as we are rushing to dip the fuck out and shit. but only to tell us that they saw the whole thing and had KRUES back 100 percent and told us to come back next week and we can bowl for free. S

So tight. KRUE just dominated and got free shit out of it. hilarious

Tosh

G-CODE

Ian

sorry Slash, but fools need to know whats good. Straight G as shit

Tosh

Do you have a couple pic’s to go with this thing?

Ian

I could make that happen. shit i am supposed to go out and shoot some shit right now fool

Ian

this facebook shit sucks mein fool

Ian

word

Tosh

Im about to dip in a sec… So give me some last words

Ian

Pretty much just trying to do my thing. Work, skate and do my best to progress in everything I do. Not expecting anything but to learn and grow in whatever direction that may be. I am super fortunate for the job and homies that I have and wouldn’t change that for shit man.

Gangsters don’t dance, we boogie- KRUE POR VIDA

Tosh

You might be the most even-minded skateboarder ever dude.

Ian

stay up player and holler at me later. i am going to try and huck my shit and hopefully somehow roll away on my feet and not my face

Tosh

get me those photo’s!

Ian

well thank you. I just try and keep my shit on the back burner and learn fromm all others mistakes.

Tosh

peace son

Ian

I will son. Go get buck with your shit and I will do the same. Holler at your boy. Mad respect

ego mob and KRUE til death son. get in where you fit in

Tosh

L8z bud-dy!