And then Gershons side. Keep in mind these are basically the first things that pop up when you google there names together. No n word.
48 Blocks: One of the things that I've been trying to do with this site...part of the reason why I started it was to address some of the rumors that I see and read. What's up with the Andrew Reynolds story, do you want to give an official version of that?
http://www.48blocks.com/gershon/gershon.htmlGershon: I've heard a lot of different things myself. What it came down to initially was this 900 Degrees tour. It was sponsored by Hardcore in Australia. It was a Globe / Birdhouse / Girl...like Guy, Heath Kirtchart, Reynolds was on this trip. It was at least nine people from different camps. So we're in Australia and there's this...well how is this website?
48 Blocks: You can say whatever you want, it's fully independent.
Gershon: Allright, well the story that I was told by another person on this tour was that they hooked up the group with a half ounce of weed. Reynolds ended up with the half ounce of weed....I mean it wasn't a long period of time, but I recall maybe two, maybe three nights that he'd bring a joint for maybe like four people that smoked....and he had the sack. (laughs) So, I seen the sack later...it couldn't have been any longer than a week cause we weren't out there that long. The sack was like...he must have been puffin tough, like chain smokin, and not really sharing. So when I saw that, I was like "damn." We really weren't good friends, we really didn't know each other. A lot of what people don't understand is that we're all thrown together. We come from different walks of life...just because we skateboard people think that we're like good friends with each other. I wasn't his enemy, but at the same time there's pleasures in life...and there's expectations. You're expecting something and it doesn't come out that way...it makes you ask a question that makes someone else uncomfortable. So, I was just like, "what was up with that," just kind of like jokey, I said, "you need to quite smokin." I didn't elaborate, but I was like you smoke way too much for your own good cause we're all still young at this time and he's probably like five years younger than I am. He didn't say anything, it was all kind of in passing how it was said. Okay, then we're at the trade show in Long Beach where they first started Baker...we're going to a Globe dinner with a few other Globe representatives. He's got the kids with him...they looked like a pyramid with him in the middle of it. It was basically like a kiddy company and I was like, "whoa, this guys trying to lead a gang." I'm saying this based on what happens next. He comes up and confronts me and I have these people with me. This is business and he comes up talking about something personal that he didn't deal with like five years before. He was showing off for these kids, he comes and is like "Gershon, remember when we were in Australia and you said that I should stop smoking, what did you mean by that?" So, I'm caught off guard cause we never really talked. I said how I felt and that's where we left it. So he must of been going over this for a long time. Anyway, I go to pat him on his shoulder like "it's whatever," like it's all good. He throws his arms up like, "what." I grew up in Compton, I took it like it meant this guy wants it, but I'm with these people and thinking, "I can't represent this." So, I let it go. Then the day before the next tradeshow, we're at the City Stars premier. He was making a nusiance in there, they gave the kid alchohol. That's some of the problems with people, they're thinking that they can be that star and be that party guy. Too much alchohol and whatever drugs he was doing, they left the theatre before most other people...they went across the street to the bar. The bar had a patio and as I was walking down the street....you had to pass the patio to get to the door. I walked by just being oblivious, because I have a way of not paying attention to things that don't matter to me. Not saying that he as a person doesn't matter to me, but I wasn't expecting to get into an altercation. I'm with some friends from Reno, we walk by and my friend's like, "Reynolds is flipping you off going fuck Gershon." I'm like, "what?" Why would he do that, then I think back and I'm like, "oh." So, I go into the bar and he's in the corner of the patio and all the Piss Drunks are around him...Strickland and those dudes. I walk in the middle of them and ask him does he have a problem. He says yes, so I hit him, which of course isn't right...it's just words. But in school I had a bully, so I just can't let some guy that can't bully me bully me. This dude could physically beat me up when I was in school, but that dude...it was like, "he's trying to punk me because of something socially....because of this industry?" I didn't come into this to put up with any sort of skateboard hierachry cause that's what I was getting away from by skateboarding. Maldanado grabbed me and pulled me back. I turned around and was about to hit him, but he was like no....he was just trying to stop the fight. He pulled me back a couple feet and Reynolds is on the side, he must have stumbled and fell. People speculate that's how he lost his tooth, but I hit him square in his mouth so I know what's up. Jokingly or whatever, the facts are the facts...he asked for it. You don't flex on nobody that you don't know unless you mean to actually deal with it.