Stevie Williams

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Stevie Williams is a famous professional street skateboarder that was born on December 17, 1979 and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stevie Williams also appeared in the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and Tony Hawk's Project 8, and as a secret character in NFL Street 2. His current sponsors are DGK skateboards (which he owns), RBK shoes, CCS mailorder, Venture trucks and Gold wheels.

[edit] Biography

Williams, growing up in the rough urban city of Philadelphia, became interested in skateboarding at a very young age. Williams got his first skateboard at the age of 10 and would always be seen on the streets skateboarding. As he became older, Williams had so much passion for skateboarding that he left his home in order to pursue a career in skateboarding.

After being sponsored by DC Shoes for 6 years, Williams left to be the first skateboarder to be sponsored by Reebok in 2004 and was the foundation for their skateboarding shoes line.^[1]

In 2006, Williams opened a skateshop L&K Limited in Oceanside, California together with Nick Lockman^[2].

He also had some minor appearnaces in movies outside skateboarding and will be featured in the movie Street Dreams by Rob Dyrdek^[3].

[edit] DGK

Williams is the owner and founder of DGK Skateboards. The DGK group includes Williams and Marcus McBride as professionals, as well as a few other Amateurs. Williams got the idea for the name 'Dirty Ghetto Kids' from a well known group of bomb Graffiti taggers in his hometown of Philadelphia. DGK is now partnered with Reebok and now shoes as well as apparel are sold under the DGK RBK name.