HHNLive.com brings you into the world of the Diplomats sponsored Freestyle Rolling team. Say hello to DipSkate. Rollerblading will never be the same again. HHNLive.com writer Quinton Hatfield chops it up with crew member Ramelle Knight.

Q: How is Dipskate affiliated with the Diplomats?

RK: We knew Jim (Jim Jones) from back in the day and we just started pushing Freestyle Rolling to everybody letting people see what it's about. Jim seen it and he just went crazy about it off the top and he just seen something different, especially with extreme sports. He told me he was a big fan of that whole thing and he wanted to get into it, but just didn't know how. It was crazy how we came to him and was like "Yo check us out", he just loved it and we linked up crazy. Right now it's about showing it to the world and everything and putting it online. You gonna see it in the music videos coming up soon, magazine articles, everything, we just tryna put it in everything and it takes time.

Q: Will you be skating in a lot of Dipset videos?

RK: Yeah were going to be doing that for the Dipset. We working hard and it's gonna be in videos and everything now.

Q: I never thought Jim Jones would be a fan of bladin'?

RK: Yeah I wouldn't either, but I come from the hood too. Growing up there everybody smokes weed and drinks. You got to have a wicked jumpshot to get out of the hood, but it's a new time and new day. Tiger Woods jumped into the golf so look at him, he's crushing them out there. We chose something different and I'm an all-star in skating so it's a good thing and people love it. You ain't gotta grow up with it to respect it. You just gotta have some real people come around and put you onto the game.

Q: Before you know it the hood will be taking over every sport.

RK: Yeah man and it's getting crazy now. Most of the time in our hood niggas was the baller or the biggest drug dealer or was nice in football. A nigga like me is respected highly in my hood, because I be on my skate shit crazy skating on rails, jumping over steps, and all that.

Q: No doubt, you know how it is in the hood football and basketball most of the time.

RK: Yeah that's real.

Q: How long have you been skating?

RK: I've been skating for the past seven years now. I'm twenty-two and I started when I was like fifteen. There are a lot of other dudes out here that been skating for like thirteen or fifteen years, but I just got into it, held it down and was serious. I'm already on top where a lot of these dudes that's been skating for years I'm in the same shoes their in right now. I'm actually going farther than them dudes man and a lot of people had a chance to do this man. Rollerblading is like the lowest thing right now you know. Cats that skateboard don't say it, niggas with BMX's don't say it, but it's because the people that was out there representing was doing it wrong. When the X Games popped off and all that, rollerblading was right there too hand in hand. Rollerblading is one of the things that made the X Games so big. We was the first event in the X Games. We put it out there first, but we fell off. I don't know too much what happened back then, but I was doing my research and the people back then didn't know what they was doing . We them new dudes. I'm from the hood and we hustlers too. Whatever I'm pushing I'm a put it out there and let everybody know what's going on.

Q: Being from New York and with that being the birthplace of hip-hop, do you to try and incorporate the culture or music into your skatin'?

RK: New York is the birthplace of hip-hop, but New York is the birthplace of skating too. It looks bigger now in places like California at the beach and all that stuff. The capital of rollerblading is New York City too. Hip-hop is big the way it came up and Freestyle Rollerblading is the same way. That's why a lot of us embrace hip-hop into what we do hard body, because we knew the struggle and what everybody had to do with that. Were doing the same thing so it just goes hand to hand. It's the same kind of grind.

Q: With skating being such an extreme sport, what are some of the crazy injuries you've had or seen?

RK: Aw man I seen shins split open (lower part of leg) where you can see to the bone. I didn't do that, but I did dislocate my shoulder. I thought I broke my finger, but I didn't really break it. Those were my two biggest injuries. Nothing too big compared to some of the others. I seen dudes crack their heads open, break their arms, wrist, but I feel like anybody can break their wrist crossing the street. It's crazy man. The sport is just wild and you can get hurt. You can break shins, bones, and all that but a lot of people do it for that love. They get that adrenaline rush when they go out there. It's
just crazy and the love for it is there so much we don't even worry about that.

Q: You brought back my memories when I was a young kid rollerblading and fell on my face [laughs].

RK: Yeah [laughs], it's crazy. Shit happens man. I been practicing so much man with skates when I put them on it's like walking down the block now.

Q: After that accident happened to me I stopped messing with it.

RK: I had that feeling too man, it happens. I fell one time and ripped the skin off my arm and back and was like "Yo man I ain't skating no more". I'm a crazy dude man and I like that energy type shit. When I'm skating I feel like I'm on some ancient type warrior shit and I'll keep doing it whether I break something or not. I'm skating forever.

Q: I see you have that adrenaline.

RK: Yeah man I need that. I'm into that adrenaline type stuff where the heart starts pumping crazy, getting nervous and scared I'm into that right there. I got hurt and fell so much I feel like nobody on this earth can hurt me.

Q: Is there any beef between ya'll skaters?

RK: Yeah coming up it's crazy, it's always beef. It's like Bloods and Crips [laughs], but at the end of the day we all rolling, we all on wheels and doing our thing. I ain't got no hate in my blood for no other sport. I got something for everybody. It's like Bloods and Crips like I said. When I was coming up in this game I had to fight a couple skateboarders early in my time so I know what it's about. I love to skateboard, but that BMX shit is hot too and we got love for everything.

Q: How do you feel when people say this shit is "white boy" type stuff?

RK: Anybody that say that is just ignorant, because they know nothing of what's going on. When people say that I just look at them like their some fools. Whoever said this was a white boy type of sport, they need to stop it. Nothing out here is just for the white boys. If you want to say it like that then basketball is for the white boys, because they the ones who started the shit. It's just people being ignorant. You can't be so one-sided. Everyone should have a chance to step in a get piece of the action.

Q: Are you trying to teach anybody in Dipset how to skate?

RK: I tell cats like Jones to put them on in a picture and they be like "Yo you crazy son I'm a bus my ass". They don't want to do that, their becoming rock stars, they want to be laid back and chill. Were trying to get them all on skates, but you know.

Q: [Laughs], I want to see Jim roll around in another "Ballin" video with some skates.

RK: [Laughs], he should do that real quick, I would like to see that.

Q: Do you rhyme?

RK: Yeah we doing that too man and Dipset is More than Music. I'm doing the rap thing too and right now I'm still in the kitchen cooking that up, then when I take it to the table seasoning it up it will be right.

Q: What's next?

RK: We got commercials coming up with sneakers, the whole thing with Pepsi is about to pop off with me and Pharrell. I will be a spokesperson for how skating is everywhere these days.