While $hort and N.W.A were laying a foundation of patriarchy and misogyny and sexism, I was at least a decade from learning the meaning of any of those words, much less considering them with informed acuity. Just a few years later, I would head-bob before my varsity basketball games ...
Dig Deeper Celebrities Who Played High School Basketball Also ranks #29 on Rappers With the Cleanest Image 109 Big Sean Finally Famous, Hall of Fame, Finally Famous Vol. 3: Big 2,370 votes Born Sean Michael Leonard Anderson on March 25, 1988, in Santa Monica, California and raised in Detr...
rap. And that made me wack. I was preoccupied with escaping 616, trying to find my true self, with succeeding and surviving Humanities and high school. Chasing skirts, trying to one-up and put down those around me, going to Mount Vernon Knight basketball games and hanging out on weekends...
there are two options – Three Times Dope’s “The Sequel” was meant as a follow-up to either the first album, “Original Stylin’,” or the second, “Live From Acknickulous Land.” The evidence at hand suggests that the North Philly crew meant to go back to their heydays in the l...
Sometimes we have OG players sit in with us that may have played with Yusef. We invite them on stage and after we play a set, some of the feedback that I've gotten has been really interesting about what I'm referencing and what I'm doing and who I sound like. And I'm like...
or in the case of the Xzibit and Big Pun tracks, timed-exclusives before the album released a year later, “Ride” hits hard enough whilst also feeling like a perfect taster for their subsequent work in 1998. If anything, it fits the Brooklyn basketball documentary better than the rest of...
Taken from an image of the famous athlete's emotional speech during his 2009 induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, this meme is usually used to convey a fan's disappointment when his particular team loses or performs poorly. The meme has been around since first appearing on MemeCrunch ...
I played the record again for Clark, too. “Hilarious. It’s just funny because knowing that we was there and he was rapping was hilarious. He was like this little basketball dude … This was his second year [in the NBA] so he was dumb young. He thought he was a rapper.” Kent ...
Dig Deeper Celebrities Who Played High School Basketball Also ranks #29 on Rappers With the Cleanest Image 109 Big Sean Finally Famous, Hall of Fame, Finally Famous Vol. 3: Big 2,370 votes Born Sean Michael Leonard Anderson on March 25, 1988, in Santa Monica, California and raised in ...