Athletes and hip hop. It's a union like peanut butter and jelly, pork chops and apple sauce, a Tim Horton's coffee with two creams and two sugars. It's a marriage made in heaven. And one of the most talented athletes to ever pick up the microphone was none other than Shaquille O'Neal.
O'Neal's résumé is a long one, and we're not just talking about his NBA career. The four-time NBA champion is an analyst and minority owner of the Sacramento Kings, has starred in movies and his own reality shows, was a reserve officer with the Los Angeles Port Police, and even starred in his own video game Shaq Fu, but his released four studio albums and two compilation albums as an MC might be the most impressive of all not involving the sport basketball.
The Big Aristotle hasn't been in the studio in a minute, but on a night where the Brooklyn Nets were honouring Notorious B.I.G., Shaq decided to drop bars behind-the-scenes on the NBA on TNT set, and they're actually pretty decent/ funny.
Some of the following lyrics are NSFW:
Kenny 'The Jet' Smith is the early favourite for the hype man of the year award.
(H/T @SportsIllustrated)
