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Kareem Campbell was born in Harlem, NYC and was raised in Los Angeles, California.

He first started skating when he was 16 years old at Venice Beach.

He received his first signature skateboard in 1992 at the age of 19 for Blue Skateboards with his fellow professional skateboarders Jason Lee and Chris “ Dune ” Pastras.

After Blue folded Campbell's next sponsor was World Industries, appearing in their video New World Order in 1993.

He continued on the World Industries team until he founded Menace Skateboards.

Menace Skateboards was forced to change its name due to a trademark legal conflict with a brand of jeans also named Menace.

The team was then known as All City Skateboards.

Then due to another trademark legal conflict with Russell Simmons, they came to an agreement where Campbell still owned the name but he licensed it to Russell Simmons for his license agreement with champs, and then he started City Stars that he still owns and is sponsored by.