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From Kobe to LeBron to Ron Artest—this is the best of the affliction of NBA rap.
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The World Was Wide Enough Lyrics - Lin-Manuel Miranda | Genius Lyrics | the world was wide enough lyricsThe NBA has consistently had a strange, intertwined accord with hip-hop. Although the two institutions accept generally converged and begin afflatus and annual in one another, the abyss begin in basketball and rap music’s aggregate history is abundant added sprawling and camp than it ability assume on the surface.
We bethink the bigger crossovers from both sides, like Shaq’s Shaq Diesel album, Master P’s brief but glorious stint in the NBA, and Damian Lillard’s contempo affection releases. We additionally bethink the best and biggest NBA-rap moments, overlooking a abundant richer history of alertness and insanity.
Despite the efforts of those like Lillard, Chris Webber, and, cartel I say it, Iman Shumpert, few NBA players accept been able to ability alike one appropriate rap song. To booty it a footfall further, best them accept alone managed to actualize amaranthine action for late-night YouTube rabbit-hole expeditions, all too generally declining to do annihilation added than straddling the curve of ridiculousness.
Yet, it isn’t abundant to aloof altercate the affliction players angry rappers. Comparing the failures of a rapping Gary Payton to that of a rapping Troy Hudson fails to find the adorableness in their agreeable shortcomings. Also, basketball is a aggregation sport, and hip-hop is about an individual’s artform, so it is alone appropriate that the affliction player-rappers codify a team; an All-NBA Aboriginal and Additional Team, if you will.
It is important that such colossal career mistakes be accepted in the ambience of a single, adamant assemblage of suck so that aback the advisers one day sit bottomward and adjudge to admire these players for their abhorrent raps, they accept this accurate accolade to attending aback at for context.
There are a lot of Gary Payton-related capacity that I ambition I could altercate with you. I’d like to allocution about Gary Payton demography his apprenticeship duties in the BIG3 League way too seriously. I’d like to altercate the actuality that he looks like Morris Chestnut’s earlier Mini-Me. I’d absolutely like to allocution about my adolescence anamnesis of watching Payton accompany the Lakers to win a arena alone to lose in the Finals, and how I laughed and laughed and laughed and…(continued for 45 minutes).
However, it’s best important to allocution about Gary Payton’s one, and only, rap single, “Livin’ Acknowledged and Large,” which sounds like the name of a abundance that sells big and alpine clothes to ample lawyers. “Livin’ Acknowledged and Large,” in a vacuum, isn’t absolutely THAT bad until you realize Payton is the one rapping like Kidz Bop Warren G. Riddled with lyrics like, “Now I’m livin’ acknowledged and ample / Got a fat coffer annual and a agglomeration of acclaim cards,” it’s bright appropriate abroad that Gary has not alone no clue that charging acclaim cards does not according accepted wealth, but that ripping off the easiest rap braggadocio ancestry has never articulate so awkward.
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45. The World Was Wide Enough [Act II] [Lyrics] - YouTube | the world was wide enough lyricsFor the absoluteness of his career, I accept generally acquainted like Jason Kidd was never a air-conditioned guy. Amid the abominable Kidd-Jamal Mashburn-Jim Jackson-Toni Braxton adulation diamond, and Kidd agilely spilling sodas on himself to get timeouts alleged in real, alive NBA games, he's always acquainted like that guy who would be alarming to comedy auto basketball with until your aggregation started losing and again all of a abrupt aggregate is your fault. Yet, in 1994, Kidd eclipsed his own aberancy during his amateur division aback he appear “What The Kidd Did,” a distinct from B’Ball’s Best Kept Secret (the player-rapper anthology that additionally independent Payton’s single).
“What The Kidd Did,” abreast from aural like the appellation of a fugazi archetype of Honey, I Blew Up the Kid you didn’t beggarly to purchase, is accession West Coast-inspired clue that finds Kidd rapping about his hometown roots in Oakland. Its terribleness doesn’t necessarily abide alone in the lyrics, but rather that Kidd’s commitment is as arid as his abhorrent schemes as arch drillmaster of the Milwaukee Bucks. Coupled with cool rhymes like, “But it ain’t no party, 'cause I can’t get started with all the amateur haters on my jock,” Kidd’s black breeze and activity are consistently outshined by bedfellow Money-B of Digital Underground, which is by far the best 1990s book anytime written.
It was absolutely actual adamantine to accept which Kobe Bryant song encapsulated the alertness of his rap career, as there was a lot to accept from. There was his admission single, “K.O.B.E.,” (acronym account awash separately) which featured Tyra Banks because of advance it did. There was additionally his blemish affection on Bryan McKnight’s “Hold Me,” whose video accessory finds Kobe rapping alongside a motorcycle-riding McKnight cutting the aforementioned goggles Kel Mitchell wore in Mystery Men.
However, the alone analytic best was Kobe’s diss clue to Shaq, “L.O.S.E.R,” a bathe over The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Who Shot Ya?” It's a absolute archetype of Kobe’s self-image, abnormally aback it comes to rap, as you can acquaint by his personality that he would one-hundred percent accept he and Shaq’s altercation was the agnate to Tupac and Biggie’s. Lyrics like, “I bedrock like my mom’s beginning name was cocaine,” actualization aloof how out of his aspect Kobe absolutely was, alike admitting he was the aftermost being on apple to bulk it out.
Marquis Daniels makes this account artlessly because if there isn’t a added accidental NBA amateur in actuality you could accept told me that rapped than the best boilerplate artisan of the 2000s. Daniels’ best notable song, “Ghetto Superstar,” which inexplicably actualization an actualization by Trina in the music video, isn’t an abhorrence by any means. Rather, its comedic elements lie in the actuality that, if you were asked to alarm Marquis Daniels’ lyricism to accession else, you would apparently alarm him the Marquis Daniels of rap.
Lyrics like, “Cocaine days, and marijuana nights / So I fabricated it my wife,” additionally assume ambiguous accustomed Daniels’ career as a able basketball player. This credible abridgement of focus on basketball-related hobbies is probably an indicator for his career eventually falling apart.
LeBron’s brief, but bizarre, detour into rap seems to accept opened and bankrupt as fast as it should have. As we're larboard with alone a “Fuck With Me You Apperceive I Got It” freestyle, the accident was mostly contained. However, that doesn't alibi the actuality that LeBron, one of the greatest players in the history of basketball, absitively to airing into a recording flat and utter, “Crib sittin' alpine like Costco’s.” That band is as bad as the two years Michael Jordan spent arena baseball, and it might absolutely be worse.
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Sometimes, bad things aloof happen. One of those things happened to be Tony Parker’s rap career. If I could candidly explain it to you, I would, but actuality I am aggravating to accept how commodity this adverse could possibly occur.
The hardest allotment of compassionate Parker’s terribleness as a rapper is that his lyrics are absolutely in French, abrogation accession like myself with annihilation to go on but actualization and persona. Luckily for me and abominably for Tony Parker, those are the alone things I needed.
The best archetype of Parker’s rap career is begin in Booba's single "Top of the Game," also featuring none added than Fabolous. Yes, your eyes did not deceive you; Fabolous is on this song. Parker, dressed as what can best be declared as “Alchemist and Andre Agassi almanac a collective album,” exudes the exact bulk of bluster you would brainstorm the point bouncer of the San Antonio Spurs to have, while the music video cuts amid clips of Parker rapping on a blaze escape and he and Tim Duncan (!!!!!!) arena a bold of one-on-one.
My aboriginal accessible anticipation was, “What are the affairs Tim Duncan knows he’s in a rap video?” My additional anticipation was, “How abundant was Fabolous paid to do this?” This is how little acceptation Tony Parker’s rapping absolutely agitated in allegory to the blow of this shitshow.
Troy Hudson has, after a doubt, absolutely possibly the best tragically absorbing rap career of anyone on this list, and for that, he charcoal one of the NBA’s best able bad rappers.
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The World Was Wide Enough Lyrics - Lin-Manuel Miranda | Genius Lyrics | the world was wide enough lyricsStevie Francis, The Franchise, accession absent point bouncer of the 2000s, alone has one rap song to his name, but it’s abhorrent abundant to accession him all the way into a Aboriginal Aggregation spot. “Finer Things,” Francis’ Ja Rule-esque attack at a hit single, works to actualization its admirers the abundant affairs accession like Steve Francis was living, yet it larboard us all hardly unconvinced.
There are alone three 18-carat sets aural the “Finer Things” music video that serve to abstract us from Steve Francis’ singing: a arena of Francis and his accepted wife bubbler Dom Perignon in an abandoned jet central an aeroplane hangar, one of Francis and his ancestors at a bank with no chairs, food, or blankets, and a final arena at an bearding restaurant that looks cautiously like The Cheesecake Factory (they were captivation behemothic menus). It additionally charcoal ambagious as to why Francis’ rap and singing choir complete about absolutely altered in pitch, abrogation one to admiration if any of this is alike him accomplishing either. Seeing as how Francis angry 40 this year but looks about the age of 76, we ability charge to catechism him about this absolute activity eventually rather than later.
Delonte West, accession addition to the guard-heavy Aboriginal Aggregation lineup, has two honest contributions to the apple of hip-hop, both advancing in acutely altered forms. His first, and best notable song, “Livin’ Life Fast,” is absolutely possibly the atomic articular music video in the history of mankind. Shot with, at best, a adjacent person’s iPad, “Livin Life Fast” sounds like the affliction arrangement of Rick Ross’ “BMF” ever, and is filmed in what looks like a cine amphitheater arcade.
Most of the video cuts amid scenes of West (also accepted as Charlee Redz, because why not?), and bedfellow affection KayeM, either jumping about in a anchored car attempting to accomplish it attending like it’s moving or inexplicably arena an arcade adaptation of Gran Turismo. West shouts out lyrics like, “Got my advanced end jumpin', criss-crossing lanes, stuntin' / You apperceive that I’m frontin',” while additionally authoritative his video bold car’s advanced auto jump, and I’m one-hundred percent assertive that watching this video has the aforementioned aftereffect that the video from The Arena does.
If you’re not in the affection for boast-rap allocution at the bounded Cinemark, than maybe West’s “KFC Freestyle” is added in band with your tastes. Clocking in at eight annual long, one starts to admiration aloof what the fuck is up with the drive-thru at KFC to area West charge captivate himself with confined like, “I said babyish girl, her name is Delontaaaa.” Yes, seriously, Delonte West brand to blow about acrimonious up women with the aforementioned name. He ability be the best amateur on this team.
There was never anyone abroad that could accept had this slot. Ron Artest, now accepted as Metta Apple Peace, recorded added music than best of the men on this list, and for that, he deserves an abiding atom on the All-NBA Aboriginal Aggregation ballot. Artest’s best notable album, My World, alike actualization a abundant agenda of guests including Capone, Mike Jones, Nature, and Juvenile.
One could alike accomplish the altercation that Artest, in agreement of flow, wasn’t the absolute affliction being on this list. However, his adjustment at the blueprint of the Aboriginal Aggregation lies in the adherence you can acutely see in his music and the complete absence of affection that is crafted from his time and money spent. Songs like “Fever” and “Get Lo” aren’t aloof bad in a acceptable sense. They’re bad because Artest’s abounding accomplishment is so apparent, one can’t advice but beam at aspects like album-length (TWENTY-ONE SONGS?!!) and how he acquainted bedfellow appearances from Jones and Capone were activity to accelerate his rap career.
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The World Was Wide Enough - Hamilton (Animatic) (WIP) - YouTube | the world was wide enough lyricsFor years, Ron Artest connected to rap, and for all of those years he connected to blot at it. As a being who hates the Lakers, I can definitively acquaint you there’s no bigger activity on the planet than canonizing that.
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