DGK Founder Stevie Williams Reveals The Most Important Lesson He Learned From The Late Virgil Abloh

“Because of where I was from and the talent I had at a young age was so different than the older gatekeepers, they tried to keep my friends and I out of the spotlight, trying to stop us from being in magazines and videos that would help our career,” Williams explained. “The quote that started it was from one of the more famous skaters at the time saying to a photographer, ‘Don’t shoot them, they’re just dirty ghetto kids.’ For the first several years of my career, it always felt that way, people trying to stop my progress at all costs.”