Dr. Todd Boyd charts the give and take relationship between hip-hop and basketball. A few notes about my favorite baller, Rasheed Wallace:
Rasheed was retro, in a way, yet his style and overall disposition was all hip-hop. He wore a headband like back in the day and he fixed his jersey inside the undergarment of his extra long shorts so that it looked like he was "saggin'."
Rasheed also brought back the popular Nike Air Force I. The Air Force I had originally come out in the '80s, and was now the shoe of choice again, along with the Jordans and Shell Toes, throughout the world of hip-hop fashion. Rasheed, who had a hip-hop show on a local Portland radio station at one point, also ended up in a battle with Bay Area rapper E-40, after 'Sheed had dissed 40's music in a radio interview. 40 Fonzarigadel -- one of E 40's many monikers -- responded to 'Sheed with a track called "Record Haters," which featured the hilarious chorus, "What's that n----'- name? Rasheed Wallace!"
Boyd was a great choice to do this article since he literally wrote the book on rap music and sports. (bootlegged via Move the Crowd)
His article is totally on point. He's written the type of authentic article that I had come to love and expect from the late Ralph Wiley. It's good to hear someone with more than a clinical knowledge of sports and hip hop music. But I wished he would have mentioned 1 thing: Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp on the Seattle Supersonics circa '96, when they were the most gangsta/hiphop style team of the NBA. They were straight streetballers (even with Detlef Schrempf, designated white boy/shooter). And to top it all off, Shawn Kemp's story really does read like a movie that should be produced by Roc-a-films.
Posted by: BlkScholar | 2004.08.19 at 09:11 AM
Hip-Hopand Basketball can be described in one word Dunkadelic!!!!!
Posted by: Derrick E. Vaughan | 2005.07.19 at 07:34 PM
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