It’s been twenty-five years since OG skate filmmaker J Strickland dropped Baker2G in Hollywood on September 29, 2000.
Back then he was just a young buck with big ideas, not knowing how much that video would stick with the skate world.
Baker2G wasn’t just another video. It was a piece of the culture, a moment that showed what skating could really be when you kept it raw and real.
Looking back now, Strickland talks about how the story got flipped over time.
What was once a tight crew project turned into a brand everyone knows, but the real tale behind it got lost in the mix.
He’s digging through old footage, photos, paperwork, and interviews to put it back together the way it really went down.
This documentary he’s working on is personal, unfiltered, and about giving the truth back to the people who were there and the people who care about real skating.
The elephant on the logo wasn’t just a joke.
Elephants don’t forget and neither does he. Every trick, every shot, every person who put time into Baker2G is still part of that memory.
Strickland wants those moments to live on, not just as a video, but as the history of what it really was.
He’s also asking for stories from anyone who was at the Hollywood premiere or just remembers the video. Those memories matter. They are part of what makes Baker2G more than a clip. They are part of keeping the culture alive.
Even now, twenty-five years later, Baker2G still hits different.
It’s about the streets, the Warner Ave crew, Piss Drunx, Baker Bootleg, Baker Skateboards and the people who were there grinding and filming when nobody else cared.