A love of skateboarding, apparently. Both were at yesterday’s Maloof Money Cup at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, a pro skating competition sponsored by the infamous Maloof brothers, owners of the Sacramento Kings and guardians of young Ali Lohan’s tremulous career. Hence the preposterous $100,000 first place prize for being good at street skating, nabbed this year by the Pennsylvania-born Chris Cole. Our full gallery of the proceedings, shot by the intrepid Rebecca Smeyne, can be found here. Alas, Smeyne didn’t track down Lil Jon–thank Complex for the above photo–but another member of the illustrious SOTC paparazzi crew reports that when she saw the rapper, he was “handing out flyers for his album, with literally no entourage–just handing out flyers to people as they left. Is that ultra gangster or not at all?” We say the former. Better, more romantic/artistic shot below:
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