Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:55am PDT

The Rappin' Fungi Retires From Skateboarding

By: Tom Morin

Jereme rogers
Jereme Rogers has announced he will officially retire from professional skateboarding. It has been a strange few weeks for the Boston native, which came to a peak two weeks ago when he was arrested on his rooftop in LA, preaching naked and high on mushrooms.

Then, yesterday it was announced that he has been dropped from his clothing sponsor Famous Stars and Straps. "We run a true skateboarding program at Famous, we are always on tour filming for our video, doing demos, competing etc. We support our riders' ambitions, but skateboarding needs to always comes first. Good luck J," said Famous team manager, Felix Arguelles.

It appears that Arguelles was hinting at the fact that Roger's hip hop ambitions have been affecting his skateboarding focus, not to mention have been the butt of jokes in the industry. Rogers has also been talking about God, Jesus and his spirituality a lot lately.

Where from here for Jereme Rogers? Well, it's obvious. He's going to be a naked, rapping, skateboarding preacher that speaks in tongues, kind of like a shaman. He'll eat his fill of mushrooms, start preaching through his rap, while skating naked around his followers. Then, when the mushrooms really start to kick in he'll finish with a good ol' fashion freak out in tongue, like those guys from the church that Borat went to.

Here's a flyer for last night's party:

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4 Comments

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Skateboarding Explained

Posted by Skateboarding Explained June 18, 2009 03:34pm PDTReply | Report Abuse

Wow, that sucks he's retiring! He's WAY too young and talented! His latest behavior reminds me of when former Alien Workshop pro Lenny Kirk flipped out.

danksquad

Reply by danksquad June 18, 2009 05:50pm PDTReport Abuse

Agreed I mean shit, fuck Famous Stripes and Stars, JR may not be all our favorite skater, but the kid was talented as a mother fucker! And aren't skaters suppose to be high on drugs and shit! Yes they are!

flipsk8er13

Reply by flipsk8er13 June 19, 2009 09:26am PDTReport Abuse

dude,why quit,rapping isnt his thing,he should be living it up on the cover of thrasher,skateboardmag,transworld,and making the sickest videos 4 plan b,i learned my first ever bs kickflip 180 from this dude,come back 4 the people man

ddtcm

Posted by ddtcm June 19, 2009 06:55pm PDTReply | Report Abuse

Skater arent supposed to be high on drugs and shit....wtf? Why u want to throw away that talent? U might as well go play for the NFL if you are gonna act like that.Dont get me wrong G.R. is a badass but dont be a "gator" and go down that path.

danksquad

Reply by danksquad June 19, 2009 07:21pm PDTReport Abuse

Its a fact Skaters love drugs and that is what gives them super human skating power! Shit son!

ddtcm

Posted by ddtcm June 19, 2009 08:35pm PDTReply | Report Abuse

Part of that may be true dank.

brady

Posted by brady June 23, 2009 08:42am PDTReply | Report Abuse

of curse hes goin to go get high cause famous is put all the crap on him

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