SDK DOC #4 ( Stompdown Killaz Documentary ) GRAFFITI

www.stompdown.ca/
In the late 1990s, pockets of hip-hop obsessed Canadian kids from suburbs like Surrey and Langley, British Columbia, set out to make themselves known. Removed from urban centres like Vancouver, they saw themselves as outcasts and took refuge in music, the streets, and their crews. These skaters, rappers, and graffiti artists-with alternate egos like Vision, Capital Q, KeepSix, Caspian, and a host of others-would eventually help found intertwined brands Ephin and Stompdown Killaz.
Stompdown Killaz (SDK) is likely the most recognized of the two entities and it looks after the graffiti and design side of the business. SDK was named by the filmmaker Capital Q. Capital Q, real name Quinn Leathem, is the brand’s co-founder, along with a handful of friends who hung out at Brookswood Skatepark in Langley. They started gaining a larger audience for their art, which you could find bombed across train cars and brick walls after Capital Q uploaded graffiti videos on their UA-cam channel in 2005. The first videos were simple slide shows of their work, and eventually they produced everything from music videos to an online talk show called Get off the Couch. Their videos went on to gain hundreds of thousands of views worldwide. Their logo became the infamous Canadian flag-stamped ski mask with crossed baseball bats behind it.
Before SDK’s rise came Ephin, legally called Ephin Lifestyle Holdings Corp. Formally established in 2002 by Ryan Wiese, aka Vision, Ephin grew from a small t-shirt vendor in Surrey. Opened in 2004, the first Ephin shop at 162nd and 84th Street was 500 square feet; two shops later, today the current space is five times bigger than the first iteration. Around 2006, Ephin and SDK came together, giving the SDK brand a solid business backing. Ephin, which is majority co-owned by Capital Q and Vision, grew to manage branding for artists around the world.

[@christopherhope6434]

That one kid was like. Dam!! I want to be just like you.

[@brianpatron5240]

Shits ill, you gona have ana sdk winter or an sdk christmas video

[@hackya123]

Hahaha 2:17 we don't snd like that hahahha :p

[@lahoozer6694]

Here dec/2022 Bringing in the 23 with SDK tour. Yearly tradition. That old guy checking out yer work lmao dead

[@tenfold7493]

Jesse pinkman and the gang at it again

[@ownage15789]

fuck i love these

[@RazlArts]

Sooo Good!

[@easy4440]

wtf all dos kids act like gansters?

[@CANControlGRAFFITI]

That's the most people to ever be at that park pretty sure, what was it, 30 kids one skateboard?? Sweet

[@tenfold2395]

I really wannna go to canada after watching this

[@X56th_SFS]

Why?

[@vbox69]

12:06 ass check!! :D:D:D

[@zackkoppang8259]

Yee boy I got slaps on that ferry

[@arusure]

That blonde girl was nice

[@rageagk9937]

A crazy blunt smoking stomp down Santa

[@hackya123]

When did yous record this!!! Seen this video a year ago uploaded??thought tour was 2013?

[@evoneEVOLUTION]

how come they wouldnt let u guys perform ?

[@X56th_SFS]

Probably permit bs tbh

[@rageagk9937]

Give him a beer if he is 17 haha

[@NathanGraffiti]

sick

[@chrissalinas7442]

Like this vid

[@jonnyknok]

all icp kids lmao

[@krazydom12345]

that was tight how do I get free stickers

[@evoneEVOLUTION]

show up at the shop or some to a show, duh :P

[@jordanthomson3031]

Hilarious

[@AJ-zx4wl]

Doc

[@noes1993]

song 10:16?

[@915JOE]

Is there any color people in Canada?

[@averageman7154]

Very few

[@CANControlGRAFFITI]

915JOE it's one of the biggest countries in the world of course there's different colours of people, get som education please.

[@rageagk9937]

Kids a way quit weirdos haha

[@rageagk9937]

So kids r way to quit