Michael Jordan: "What is a Rakim? Is that hard rap?"

Big Boss

Big Boss

Veteran
Joined
Sep 26, 2012
Messages
175,867
Reputation
12,306
Daps
342,822
Reppin
NULL
ISOMELO said:
Kenny Smith is from LeFrak in Queens, he's from the inner city where hip hop music and culture developed. Jordan grew up in a rural/suburban North Carolina town he grew up strictly on old school R&B, jazz, soul, gospel, funk and the blues not hip hop. He's probably into Ohio Players and Anita Baker music like that.

MJ was already an adult when Rakim hit the scene and just never got into hip hop he's a country boy hip hop wasn't being played like that. MJ didn't even have cable in his town growing up so he wasn't watching Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow or LL on MTV.

There's a lot of cats MJ's age that don't listen to hip hop, MJ was born in the beginning of the so called "hip hop" generation. Just look at Obama who has admitted to getting into rap late and has a playlist full of Aretha Franklin and The Temptations.
Click to expand...



:ehh:
 
Killigraphy

Killigraphy

Banned
Joined
Mar 8, 2015
Messages
8,325
Reputation
-2,259
Daps
17,516
Reppin
NYC black coffee tough guys aka the Stoozy Boys
Billy Ocean said:
I see what you're saying but there's a bunch of ballers that played with Mike, round his age, that love hip hop music. I just find it funny that his sneakers is huge in our culture and it's history and that he doesn't even fvck with the music at all.
Click to expand...

Makes perfect sense to me...while the entire black culture is the most vultured on and stolen bravado in the world....black people prefer everything not related to them; From Gucci, to Kung Fu flicks, the average black person in the ghetto knows more about Bruce Lee than they do about Stokely Carmichael.
 
OnlyInCalifornia

OnlyInCalifornia

Southern California/Vegas
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
19,938
Reputation
3,710
Daps
52,074
Reppin
The Coli's 420th member
Just because his shoes are popular among Hip Hop heads doesn't mean he has to be a Hip Hop head....

Why can't MJ like what he likes? I am sure he listens to people like Anita Baker. He said so himself. Is that not good enough? He hates black people because he listens to Anita Baker and not Rakim?

Moments after sinking the match-winning shot, a reporter said to Jordan: “There’s a pre-game ritual you go through when you’re back in the locker room by yourself. There’s a song that plays and you said that was going to be your theme. What’s that song that you listen to?”

To which Jordan replied: “Anita Baker, Giving You the Best That I Got.
Click to expand...

@ISO was right...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top