Without Julius Erving and Marviconic, there would be no iconic rapper. Doc would return to his high school, Roosevelt High, in Roosevelt, Long Island, as a young Chuck D soaked up anything and everything from the basketball legend - then starring for the New Jersey Nets of the ABA. Chuck D, growing up in Long Island, and attending the same school as the aforementioned Dr.
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Chuck D has a deeper NBA connection and emulated the voice of Marv Albert, the recently retired Hall of Fame broadcaster who was the voice of New York pro sports. Fans of Public Enemy couldn't wait until Chuck rapped the following bars: "Simple and plain, give me the lane, I'll throw it down your throat like Barkley!" Again, a Philadelphia 76ers reference to the early NBA days of Hall of Fame power forward Charles Barkley. It contained the classic violin laden track, Rebel Without a Pause. The conscious project that challenged race in every direction with bombastic production from the Bomb Squad was Public Enemy's second. Chuck D and Charles BarkleyĪ few years later, one of the most influential hip hop acts of all time, Public Enemy, dropped their classic album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Kurtis Blow documenting that team and many other NBA legends, including Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, made me search the older names and connect the dots. " The Philadelphia 76ers were coming off an NBA championship that everyone thought they'd win. "Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr.
Later that year, rap superhero Kurtis Blow of The Breaks fame dropped a classic called Basketball. Hip hop was exploding and gave the NBA a boost. Many of my classmates wrote the lyrics down to remember and recite them.
Roxane, Roxane, by UTFO took the nation by storm. The year is 1984 and I'm a sophomore in high school. Why is that, and also, why is it so cool? The two are the same, and definitely extensions of each other, so let's take it back. Rappers want to be hoopers hoopers want to be rappers. Going back as far as the 80's with Kurtis Blow's Basketball, up to Kawhi Leonard appearing in Drake's Way Too Sexy video, hip hop and the NBA are synonomyous. The intersection of hip hop and the NBA has been spoken about for decades.
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