INTERVIEW: Nigel Sylvester On Blending Hip Hop & BMX Culture, Nike Collab, International Bike Ride + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, Nigel Sylvester Speaks On Blending Hip Hop & BMX Culture, Nike Collab, International Bike Ride. Listen For More!
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| 1:07.9 | Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salameen Nagar. We are the breakfast club. Lonla Rosa is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Pro BMX biker athlete. Brothers from Queens, Nigel Sylvester. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Big queens. |
| 1:09.3 | Big queens in a building. |
| 1:10.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 1:10.8 | Incredible. |
| 1:28.1 | Thank you so much. Big Queens. Big Queens in a building. |
| 1:29.5 | How are you feeling? Incredible. Incredible. God woke me at this morning, so it feels great. There you go. When we get brothers like you, I like to start from the beginning of how, right? Right. So you're from Laurelton, Queens. Yes, sir. which is North Side, which is the same side of Queens. I'm from from Queens Village. |
| 1:27.7 | And growing up in Queens, we all rode bikes, right? But we didn't ride to the caliber that you rode for. We rode to go to the park. We rode to go to the store, the bodega, to go to White Castle, to go to Linden. To steal all the people's bikes. We rode for all those places, right? We have to dize the Brooklyn kids from trying to steal our bikes all the time. But you took a different route. So start what you growing up in Queens and how you got into BMX biking and taking it serious. I mean, just like you said, right, like we grew up riding bikes in that capacity to get from point to point B. For me, it was like during that point to point B, I was like, I want to jump off this curb, |
| 2:18.7 | or I want to pop a willie, or like, I was curious in that way. And that just, man, it took me down a route of like, okay, like how far can I take this, right? Like, how many steps can I jump down? I want to grind this bench over here. And once I started to discover that you can do it professionally, I was like, oh, this is what I want to do. |
| 2:17.7 | I was sold after that. |
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