Where is Marc Johnson?

[overlyoffensive]

having had known someone who was pro for lakai for many years i’ve been told carroll likes poppin pillz. legend for sure but over the years of reading shit about him and hearing things i’m not surprised shit at crail isn’t what it used to be.

MJ…you deserve a spot on skatings mount rushmore.

remember when he was in on video saying how he wanted more from brian lotti…well now we went more from you in the same manner

[overlyoffensive]

also

never heard anything good about sam smyth. dude needs to take a hike

[DCLOVE]

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Maybe it’s been brought up already in another thread but i don’t think he was mentioned at all in the chocolate 30 year thing? which makes me assume the hatchet hasn’t been buried between them.
Were there mj boards displayed? Dude clocked in so much work for chocolate.
Saddened me a bit to see that group photo without him.

Wherever marc is, i wish him peace and wellness

Same goes to y’all pals, happy holidays
Enjoy some powdered toast with your loved ones

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Yea man I agree, I’m sure things are sour but not including his boards is insulting as fuck, dude started yeah right with a bang and truthfully his is the only part from FF I still watch, he put so much into that shit and for them to basically act like it didn’t happen is shitty, wether they buried the hatchet or not, and thanks for the well wishes powdered toast man, hope you get a Log! For Christmas

Wait they didn’t include his boards? Besides being incredibly disrespectful since MJ basically WAS chocolate- I thought they might have given up the grudge since he was in their ig posts for chocolate tour or hot chocolate 20th anniversary earlier this year - that’s lame but hey after wheatleys story and the mj situation around the same time we know Carroll is fragile bitch .

[Unkle Fleak]

He’s just out there being a legend too.

[Shortys Hardware]

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Maybe it’s been brought up already in another thread but i don’t think he was mentioned at all in the chocolate 30 year thing? which makes me assume the hatchet hasn’t been buried between them.
Were there mj boards displayed? Dude clocked in so much work for chocolate.
Saddened me a bit to see that group photo without him.

Wherever marc is, i wish him peace and wellness

Same goes to y’all pals, happy holidays
Enjoy some powdered toast with your loved ones

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Yea man I agree, I’m sure things are sour but not including his boards is insulting as fuck, dude started yeah right with a bang and truthfully his is the only part from FF I still watch, he put so much into that shit and for them to basically act like it didn’t happen is shitty, wether they buried the hatchet or not, and thanks for the well wishes powdered toast man, hope you get a Log! For Christmas

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Wait they didn’t include his boards? Besides being incredibly disrespectful since MJ basically WAS chocolate- I thought they might have given up the grudge since he was in their ig posts for chocolate tour or hot chocolate 20th anniversary earlier this year - that’s lame but hey after wheatleys story and the mj situation around the same time we know Carroll is fragile bitch .

Having yonnies portrait board up but no mj's the most crailtap thing ever

[Powdered Toast Man!]

Oh i didnt state mj didnt have any of his boards at the choco expo,
i was asking if he did.
Did he?

[overlyoffensive]

dude he must have had something up

down right criminal if they didn't give em any love in that

[Unkle Fleak]

Know what be sick. Screen grab graphics from 7 steps. Similar to alien did. I got one of those boards and some had some top graphic that said something about art. I can’t remember it was numbered bullshit. Not even a trick. Switch rolling to velvet morning.

I looked exactly like that back then too. It was sick! I thought he was a skinhead too. But it was more like a tennis thing tho right?

[chany penguin]

Know what be sick. Screen grab graphics from 7 steps. Similar to alien did. I got one of those boards and some had some top graphic that said something about art. I can’t remember it was numbered bullshit. Not even a trick. Switch rolling to velvet morning.

I looked exactly like that back then too. It was sick! I thought he was a skinhead too. But it was more like a tennis thing tho right?

He still had hair in 7 steps. He didn't go legally bald til after Transworld uno

[radcunt]

Carrol’s had an empty gaze for 30 years

[GAY]

This story is telenovela-levels of high drama and SLAP is HERE FOR IT

[ToySanta]

Allow me to assist, ya’ll. I poked around on instagram this morning and found some evidence to back up claims made here:

Seems like a pretty glaring omission:


At the show:


Actual series. Kinda wack they didn’t even give him a motor vehicle at the time:


Lastly, is this Yonnie? I’m not sayin MJ would’ve come if he got invited, but inviting a sex criminal that [you kicked of the team]?? Well and truly fucked, Chocolate.


On the board wall, I did see the Beavis & Butthead’s together, so not nothin. I didn’t recognize anything else but MJ wasn’t entirely erased…

[Shifty Flip]

B&C/ Marc are goated for the Cindy May reissue alone.  If he did move back to LA with a U-haul full of art mattresses, hopefully he’s happy and healthy.

[Shortys Hardware]

Wait..does mj even have a normal portrait board? he had the split one with the black eye and him smoking but i don't recall a normal one

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Hello Slap!

There was no MJ or Scott Johnston portrait ever made unfortunately.
Marc had boards in the show though, along with original art, photos, and boards from the series Marc did - that wood cut series

[Fongstarr.]

His deck is in the newer bar series too




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[Shifty Flip]

Hello Slap!

There was no MJ or Scott Johnston portrait ever made unfortunately.
Marc had boards in the show though, along with original art, photos, and boards from the series Marc did - that wood cut series

+1

[ToySanta]

This was his intro board. Honestly, still fun to this day:

[AdrianLopez]

Back then he said that one of the reaons he moved to Adidas was that they would give more room for his creativity and that he was about to do lots of projects and clips with Adidas. So allow me to share all these projects and clips again:

[GreenLineAcid]

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He’s in flavor country

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He's in flavor country, but none of the rest of us are.

He seems like the sort of person who would skate deliberately by himself and go out of his way to not document it out of spite for us all / the entire industry.

Like Rodney Mullen does now? They are in the same league anyway. Both legends.

[alien porkchop]

Lastly, is this Yonnie? I’m not sayin MJ would’ve come if he got invited, but inviting a sex criminal that [you kicked of the team]?? Well and truly fucked, Chocolate.

In the live video going on now I asked Jeron budget or buttery: Yonnie Cruz. He said budget and said a little something. Everyone else in the room was quiet as fuck after that and Crob looked so uncomfortable. Lol

some of these dudes are just garbage on the inside

[kookdusoleil]

having had known someone who was pro for lakai for many years i’ve been told carroll likes poppin pillz. legend for sure but over the years of reading shit about him and hearing things i’m not surprised shit at crail isn’t what it used to be.

MJ…you deserve a spot on skatings mount rushmore.

remember when he was in on video saying how he wanted more from brian lotti…well now we went more from you in the same manner

We definitely all want more MJ footy but he did waaaaay more than Brian Lotti in terms of coverage

[Coffee]

On the board, MJ is my all time favorite. His pseudo intellectual stuff was cringy as well as his over the top goofy nonsense but damn on the board he made magic. It sucks that he basically got blackballed by Mike Carroll in a Jenkem interview. I remember when that went down and thinking I would do the exact same thing as Marc if my employer cut my pay and was months behind on checks while being dodgy about the whole situation. Never been a Carroll fan but I am a big Rickk fan. Hopefully one day we get some clips out of MJ but even if we don’t dude had like 17 video parts to go back and watch.

[overlyoffensive]

a lot of companies operate that way. maybe the least professional group of fucks to run a business

aside from the skater owner companies, thrasher might be one of the worst of them all to deal with

is MJ technically still on adidas?

[TMKF]

His body of work is unparalleled, he gave it all to the game. Show some god damn respect.

[somedudefromnj]

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Lastly, is this Yonnie? I’m not sayin MJ would’ve come if he got invited, but inviting a sex criminal that [you kicked of the team]?? Well and truly fucked, Chocolate.

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In the live video going on now I asked Jeron budget or buttery: Yonnie Cruz. He said budget and said a little something. Everyone else in the room was quiet as fuck after that and Crob looked so uncomfortable. Lol

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some of these dudes are just garbage on the inside

yup that settles it, im buying a dubbs board

[fur lined sea]

His body of work is unparalleled, he gave it all to the game. Show some god damn respect.

This a million times over.

Even if you don’t agree with what he said over the years, least he was out there saying something. Marc would show his true self in everything, to the point his vulnerabilities would come out.

[overlyoffensive]

he really did, and that's all that matters at this point

[LizaNeedsBraces]

MJ is a fucking legend

[oyolar]

Back then he said that one of the reaons he moved to Adidas was that they would give more room for his creativity and that he was about to do lots of projects and clips with Adidas. So allow me to share all these projects and clips again:

This.

Everyone is really fucking flip-flopping, acting like MJ is the saint in this and misremembering the Carroll Jenkem interview so I assume most have never read the thing.

Carroll mentions in the interview that they routinely protected MJ's pay even when others were getting pay cuts. Then, they had to cut his pay a few times and he had a few conversations with MJ where it became clear to him that he was going to leave Lakai for adidas and Carroll understood why. He even claims he told Marc to take the offer. But he says that he asked him to hold off on the announcement because it would disrupt selling product that was already in production and ordered. This isn't unheard of in the real world outside of skating - it's called garden leave. Marc said he was down for that and Carroll claims the agreement was in place and signed off by everyone. Rumors persisted that MJ was going to be announced on adidas during the leave period and Carroll asked MJ repeatedly if this was true. MJ said no. MJ lied and was announced in Away Days ahead of the schedule he agreed upon with Carroll despite Carroll repeatedly asking him if there were any issues and if he was going to be announced early. THAT was what he's pissed about and why MJ was kicked off of Chocolate, not for leaving Lakai for adidas. And we know that they didn't kick him off for leaving Lakai because they didn't kick off Mike-Mo, Pops, Koston, Biebel, or AO for leaving Lakai after Fully Flared came out. They essentially kicked him off for breach of contract, a real risk when you have the same boss for multiple employers, so it was a stupid move on MJ's part to lie.

MJ is a great skater, but a fucking mess of a human being and anyone who has followed skating for more than a few years knows this. That's why nothing came out of his time at adidas and nothing came out of his own board brand except some creepy boards with some very misogynistic / rape joke implications and him scamming people. I hope he gets the help he needs.