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John Murphy is a skateboarder, rapper and skate video maker from The South West of England. His tech skating and verbacious lyrical output both contain inventiveness, ingenious and a unique quirky intricacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After discovering skating from American TV and media in the late 90s and now creating as a filmer-editor John is a driving force behind the TSCrew skate crew who have infused immeasureable waves of hype and motivation into their local skate scene in Trowbridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Similarly his homegrown style of Hip Hop, rapping under the name – The Nicewun JM, with a name and style that could only be cooked up in England\u2019s South West delivers an enthusiastic and unconventionally unorthodox concoction of thought provoking and positive bars. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chocked with references to his life, skate experiences and personal philosophy with nods to icons on and off the board on both sides of the Atlantic, his original sound and songs have an undeniably English flavour.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We first found out about John from our HUF Worldwide trick challenges as he won the Brandon Turner Switch Hardflip Challenge and it was through that we figured out he was a big fan of skatiing and Hip Hop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However after reconnecting nearly 5 years down the line and chatting more about his skating, The South West, Bristol, Hip Hop, and skate videos and watching his footage, we discovered he has a passion and real ability for rapping and skating and also for filming for and producing rad skate videos with his TSCrew.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John isn\u2019t just great at skating or weaving together lyrics he\u2019s also an incredibly knowledgeable skater who has a database of dope UK and global skate and Hip Hop moments constantly at the forefront of his mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So after discovering he\u2019s just released his debut album \u2018Celebratin\u2019 Hip Hop… Over Here\u2019, we talked about it all and asked him to be a member and were stoked he was down to join The No Comply Network.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read our conversation to hear how John first got a skateboard with his twin brother Dan Murphy AKA Turkey, filming and editing, the TSC Crew video series, his battle to Switch Frontside Flip London Life 9, Bristol, Fifty Fifty Store, Danny Wainwright, Hip Hop Culture, his rapping – The Nicewun JM, producing his first album – \u2018Celebratin\u2019 Hip Hop\u2019, why he\u2019s always down to keep it positive, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Westwood, why he thinks full length skate videos are really important to skate visual culture, Jus Fooling, Bristol in Bloom, Sorry, Really Sorry, Mark Appleyard, hanging with Korahn Gayle, Layth Sami, Harry Ogilvie, Lloyds, Skateboard Cafe, Paul Carter, Tim Crawley, Tom Penny and his favourite skaters, rappers from the US and UK, styles, spots, videos, photos, songs and shows of all-time and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the John Murphy Interview below to find it all out for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Nicewun JM ‘Celebratin Hip Hop… Over Here’ Album Cover – click here to listen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s your full name?<\/h1>\n

John<\/span> Philip Murphy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where did you grow up and where do you live now?<\/h1>\n

I was born in 1988 and I\u2019ve lived in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, my whole life.<\/p>\n

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When did you first see skateboarding and think I want to do it?<\/h1>\n

So me and my twin brother, Dan Murphy<\/a> both got interested in skateboarding at the same time and it was a number of things that led us both into realising skating was what we wanted to do. At the time we were really into wrestling. We would watch all the WWF, WCW and ECW shows.<\/p>\n

I was a massive Stone Cold Steve Austin fan and we had also been doing Judo for a few years and both got pretty good at that.<\/p>\n

We were both fascinated with the stunts you\u2019d see in Jackie Chan movies and so me and Dan just wanted to do frontflips and backflips all the time, we were kids with a lot of energy. This led us to seeing skateboarding on the X-Games on TV and really being into it and we also bought the Tony Hawk Pro skater 2 game for the PC which we played a lot.<\/p>\n

Also as I was into watching music videos we\u2019d see skateboarding in some videos and also through watching Jackass on MTV.<\/p>\n

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