Shaq raps on New York stage, takes shots at Kobe

[Saskibaloia2]

ESPN.com: NBA

Monday, June 23, 2008
Updated: June 24, 10:36 AM ET
Shaq raps on New York stage, takes shots at Kobe


Four years, two teams and a championship later, Shaquille O'Neal is still ripping Kobe Bryant.

Video on TMZ.com shows the Phoenix Suns center doing a freestyle rap in a nightclub on Sunday night in which he puts down his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate.

"You know how I be," Shaq rapped. "Last week Kobe couldn't do without me."

Bryant led the Lakers to the NBA Finals this season, but they were beaten 4-2 by the Boston Celtics.

O'Neal and Bryant last played together during the 2003-04 season, when the duo led the Lakers to the Finals. They lost to the Pistons that season, and soon after O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat, breaking up a duo that won three titles.

O'Neal went on to win a championship with the Heat in 2006. During his rap, O'Neal, who was traded to the Suns last year, said that he is "the difference between first and last place."

He also implored the crowd to sing along to his oft-repeated chorus: "Kobe [expletive], tell me how my [expletive] tastes."

Smiling and laughing often, O'Neal also sang that Bryant broke up his marriage.

"I'm a horse. Kobe ratted me out," he rapped. "That's why I'm getting divorced. He said Shaq gave a [woman] a mil. I don't do that 'cause my name's Shaquille. I love 'em, I don't leave 'em. I got a vasectomy, now I can't breed 'em."

In 2004, Bryant, while embroiled in a rape investigation, alleged that O'Neal paid up to $1 million in hush money to various women. O'Neal told ESPN then: "This whole situation is ridiculous."

After repeating the chorus a number of times on Sunday night, O'Neal ended his rap by singing, " Kobe, you can't do without me" over and over.

Reached by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith on Monday, O'Neal issued the following statement: "I was freestyling. That's all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever. That is what MC's do. They freestyle when called upon. I'm totally cool with Kobe. No issue at all. And by the way, don't forget, six albums, two platinum, two gold. Anybody who knows me knows I'm a funny freestyler. Check the NBA DVD when I was rapping about Vlade Divac during my first championship run. Please tell everybody don't make something out of nothing."

O'Neal and Bryant do have a history of feuding, however, which started even before the Lakers split them up. Bryant bristled when O'Neal called him his "little brother." At one point, Bryant questioned O'Neal's conditioning.

Soon after being traded by the Lakers, O'Neal didn't hide his disdain, calling Bryant a "clown" and a "joke."

In recent years, however, the war of words has quieted, and O'Neal even went on record as saying that Bryant should have won the 2007 MVP award.

On Monday, O'Neal tried to explain how the freestyle format shouldn't be taken too seriously.

"Everyone that knows Shaq knows two things about me: One, that I'm a rapper, and two, that I'm a comedian. When I played with Kobe, me, him, Brian Shaw, J.R. Rider, we had freestyle sessions all the time. ... all in fun and we said crazier stuff than that. If I hurt anyone's feelings, I apologize."

 

[ArkadiosV22]

One is a dumb athlete who is also a wannabe cop and raps bullshit and the other one is a dumb athlete who rapes women...

You choose first and tell us...

 

[RetiredJordanStopper2]

kobe may have had the last laugh: Shaq got his honorary badge revoked by his sheriff

 

[rikhardur2]

Shaq is a falling star basically with an ego bigger than the earth. And he's ridiculous

 

[Czarkazem132]

One is a dumb athlete who is also a wannabe cop and raps bullshit and the other one is a dumb athlete who rapes women...

You choose first and tell us...

Hehem...allegedly, that is.
















I'm of course talking about Shaq "rapping."

 

[LuDux2]

One is a dumb athlete who is also a wannabe cop and raps bullshit and the other one is a dumb athlete who rapes women...

You choose first and tell us...

[Tyra]
Kobe, how many girls ahve said, "I love you?"
Not like 'I love you Kobe!' like a fan
But like, for real, like, baby, marry me
I love you

[Kobe]
You're sweet
Once again (Once again)
Flawless (Flawless)
C'mon
Right
Uh, uh huh
Yo, yo, it's like this

Uh, what I live for? Basketball, beats and broads
From Italy to the US, yes, it's raw
I'ma search for the one that make my wealth feel poor
Who can ignore the spotlight life of Grandma
My falldown is how I found the aura, so I searched in
There's plenty of women with sex appeal when it's filled
Can even complete the package, all I date is actresses
Can play it safe with them, my money ain't bait
But I must take risks to find a honey that's legit
Whether she push a buck and a six, bumpin' some mad chips
Out on her own, or live out of moms and pop's home
Watch time, fashion, Adidas attire or Timbo's
I don't know, yo, these women come and go
Like the wind they blow, how do I know it's you for sure?
When God talk to me, give me a signal
But until then, all my ears hear, just let me flow
C'mon


HOOK (2x)
[Tyra Banks]
K-O-B-E, I L-O-V-E you
I believe you are very fine
If you give me one chance, I promise to love you
And be with you forever more


[Kobe]
Check this out though
Real love last, now do you love me or my cash?
My name, fame, drop top, Benz or the wooden dash?
You know my stash, from Georgie cash
Platinum, US express, no paper cash
Spend it all now, or kiss to be rich cash
Hash, stocks and bonds, laugh when they crash
Are you the type that brag the jewels you flash
The type-type with your ex-man and push his Jag
The type that love no scrubs or pigeons and got mad
The type that can't stand a women with her own cash
You know, like lime, claim she ain't rat
The type that get loud in public, refrain my hand from a slap
No time for y'all, too busy for y'all
Plenty of dimes turn me on and turn me off tryin' to show off
Get lost, grow up, real women, roll up
Let yourself go, if you feel this, let me know
C'mon

HOOK

[Tyra] [Kobe]
K-O-B-E, I L-O-V-E you Bounce wit' me, bounce wit' me
K-O-B-E, I L-O-V-E you Right, right, uh, uh, uh

[Kobe]
Think ya eyein' me, all along, I'm eyein' you
The hunter becomes the hunted, girl, I'm preying on you
Beautiful, the feelings we share are mutual
Passion that's telling me so for us is suitable
Un-controllable desire flows through me
When you say my name, such lust in your slang
No time for games, the games I play, all the same
Can't get witcha, when the door hitcha, when the Lord splitcha
I figure, hour-glass figures could be dangerous
Cuz if your time runs out, they frame you for your clout
And having a past, well, I stereotype glass
All dimes ain't money, ass, and feignin' for a brother's cash
Slash fame, slash power, slash respect
All the above, makes me a supreme threat to scrubs
Love but do you want? One more 'gain, let me know
The words flow, from the bottom of your soul
C'mon

HOOK (till fade)

[Kobe]
It's like that
Right
KB
TB
Flawless
Like that, spit it out

 

[damelo2]

I heard about that one, but never listened to... Must be quite funny?
More than Tony Parker?

 

[mvblair2]

kobe may have had the last laugh: Shaq got his honorary badge revoked by his sheriff

That's hilarious. His rapping was so bad he can't be a sheriff.

 

[Czarkazem132]

Lol @ LuDux, that was garbage. Damn Kobe.

Everytime I see some new balla' trying to rap I think of Bumpy Knuckles' lyrics back in the day:

"It's Bumpy Knux, hotter than grits on Al Green
Gonna make Allen Iverson stick with his team
Basketball was your dream, so live ya other life
Don't go broke tryna flow, be you ain't that nice
What's with these basketball niggas, I'm screamin' double dribble
How you nine foot tall, and rhymin just a little?"

Not one (Parker, Kobe, Shaq, AI, Artest, Marbury, etc...) have any true skillz. They all aspire to be pop artists (not emcees), but lack the talent.

Just like the rappers that think they can ball (or actors that think they can sing, or singers that think they can paint...).

 

[mvblair2]

Can this be true?

Shaq's rap is thoroughly rapped - By Jerry Crome, June 26, 2008, Los Angeles Times

Shaquille O'Neal's childish mocking of Kobe Bryant in an amateurish freestyle rap video was strongly rebuked by a racially sensitive sheriff in Arizona and harshly reviewed, no doubt, by a stupefied former teammate in Newport Beach. . . .

Younger hip-hop fans probably thought, Shaq is a rapper? . . .

According to Nielsen SoundScan, which monitors U.S. record sales, Shaq-Fu's six albums have sold a total of 20 copies this year. . . .

As in, an average of fewer than four copies per CD. . . .

 

[LuDux2]

Can this be true?

His 6th album wasn't released at all. 5th album was released in 1998


Shaq + Notorious B.I.G
Shaq + Warren G
Shaq + Method Man + RZA