Michael Jordan: "What is a Rakim? Is that hard rap?"
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yardman
Mad movements!
This excerpt is from the mid 90s. Pac didn't deserve that title yet. But Rakim did.
Drip Bayless
Superstar
Yall childishJordan
the greatest basketball player of all time, probably out here bumping Elton John in the whip like "b-b-b-b-benny and the jetttts"
darealvelle
Real Talk
Michael Jordan looks like the type would listen to gap band and parliament all day
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Show you were not cognitive and speak on an era.
You don't know at all, breh.
Art Barr
*rap was not even effectively globally marketed till 1996 and reg know/leo Burnett.
So, where and how in the fukk would mj like rap music.
Even spike lee as mars Blackmon existed as a caricature to play up the disconnect between popular culture/ air Jordan and black hip hop culture.
Yet, nikkaz in here talking like they know and couldn't be further from the point.
Deaf2twothirds
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Chill Barr most these nikkas too young to even acknowledge how the world was before mainstream internet pre 1995
This thread is
He didn't say he didn't know rap existed... he just said he doesn't listen to it. Not sure why a person 30+ in the early-90s not being a big fan of rap is something unheard of. Most of us have a preference to the music/artists of our youth, right? Well, Jordan's youth was the 70s/early-80s- where R&B music was pretty much the only thing being played, and hip-hop was just getting off the ground. That's not to say theres people his age that DIDN'T like it, but it wasn't everybody. So even if Jordan might've liked Whodini or a Heavy D song here n there, doesn't necessarily mean he was super-deep into hip-hop as a whole. Also, given the era this interview took place, I doubt a 30+ guy who was into smooth R&B was bumpin' a bunch of gangsta shyt too... IJS
He didn't say he didn't know rap existed... he just said he doesn't listen to it. Not sure why a person 30+ in the early-90s not being a big fan of rap is something unheard of. Most of us have a preference to the music/artists of our youth, right? Well, Jordan's youth was the 70s/early-80s- where R&B music was pretty much the only thing being played, and hip-hop was just getting off the ground. That's not to say theres people his age that DIDN'T like it, but it wasn't everybody. So even if Jordan might've liked Whodini or a Heavy D song here n there, doesn't necessarily mean he was super-deep into hip-hop as a whole. Also, given the era this interview took place, I doubt a 30+ guy who was into smooth R&B was bumpin' a bunch of gangsta shyt too... IJS
Deaf2twothirds
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@Iron Chin Wilder
You aint show up to the highways & biways fukk nikka
You aint show up to the highways & biways fukk nikka
The_Third_Man
Superstar
I remember reading somewhere that Jordan was a big fan of Whodini
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Greenhornet
A God Among Kings
no wonder he dresses like a backup dancer
wanted kool moe dee in chicago to perform how ya like me now and rap the national anthem.......
Big Mel
@bigboss
I actually remember this column/specific MJ piece. I had totally forgotten about it until this thread.
I told y'all nikkas. @Billy Ocean and @The Ruler 09 are the biggest parrots on this entire site. Never seen anything like it.