Given the legacy of longtime friends Keenan Milton and Keith Hufnagel, something significant is in the works between Crailtap and HUF Worldwide, and it will be a nostalgic but bittersweet experience. It will be released on Thursday!
When Keenan Milton drowned after an Independence Day party in Los Angeles, skateboarding lost one of its greats. He was 26. Keenan had a board on Chocolate and a shoe on DVS at the time, and he was already a legend. While off the board he was known for his charismatic, outgoing personality, his parts in videos like 1994’s 20 Shot Sequence, 1995’s Las Nueve Vidas de Paco, 1996’s Mouse, and 1999’s The Chocolate Tour showcased his powerful, technical style.
Keenan, who was raised in New York after being born in Atlanta, gained notoriety alongside skaters like Keith Hufnagel, Gino Iannucci, and the late Harold Hunter. By the middle of the 1990s, he had relocated to the West Coast, where he made a name for himself that would endure far beyond his years through pieces, images, and tales that have come to be known as the
Since their initial encounter in New York City in the 1990s, Keenan Milton and Keith Hufnagel had been inseparable. In a film documenting some of their interactions, Keith narrates their trip and serves as a reminder of what made Keenan so inspirational both on and off the field. Keenan Always.
The Berrics have been working with Girl and Chocolate’s riders even before a single clip was recorded in our teeny, tiny Myers St. private warehouse. (In 2006, Ty Evans produced a fantastic “Skate Fairy” episode about the LA sanctuary.)
Check the video out here!
