Former NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal knows how to align himself with greatness. The high-profile celebrity currently stars in a new American Express credit card commercial with Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar.
A new AE commercial has started to make its rounds across the Internet and features the duo copping some customized hand soap bars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1X3Z4rlcA
A few days ago, Shaq Attack teased Instagram followers with some footage of himself in a recording studio spitting rap bars.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMuorOblFI-/?taken-by=akademikstv
Back in September, rap veteran Nas called Shaq the best-ever NBA hip-hop artist.
“Shaq! That’s the go-to because he pulled off an amazing thing. He had great artists on records and we listened to those records. And it sold, [I think it] went platinum. It sold records. It sold like a platinum, yeah, he did his thing and Biggie was on ‘You Can’t Stop The Reign.’ He did his thing.” (“Any Given Wednesday”)
A few years ago, Nas compared Shaq’s music career to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant.
Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant have had their fair share of verbal sparring bouts when they were teammates on the Lakers from 1996-2004. According to rapper Nas, who has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums since 1994, one of basketball stars might be a bit more glib than the other. When asked who is a better rapper, Nas said, “Shaq got that. Shaq got a classic hip-hop album. I don’t think Kobe got a chance to put out an album.” (Los Angeles Times)
We have to stop allowing people to tear down classic hip hop music. Do writers in other genres say “the Beatles and Rolling Stones are overrated”? Not so much. Let’s support our classic hip hop artists, share their music and not tear it down. This article suffers from a lack of perspective regarding the albums on the list and the impact they had and still have. Let’s see the writer(s) of the article try to come up with music that’s stands up to any of the albums…