Shaq Talks Hip Hop & Says Jay Z, infamous B.I.G. had been His Favorites To Work With

His rap career may additionally have been placed on pause, however music nevertheless runs through Shaquille O'Neal's veins. The NBA legend will go down as one of the vital ultimate avid gamers in los angeles Lakers heritage, however Shaq Diesel additionally boasts reasonably the song profession. He launched 4 studio albums between 1993 and 1998, and he's labored with one of the proper hip hop artists in the rap video game. When the forty seven-yr-historical these days caught up with Baller Alert, Shaq spoke of what artists he is at present taking note of.

"The good component about me, above all me being a DJ. i like every kind of music," Shaq talked about. "So, at the moment I'm taking note of Joyner Lucas, his new one "Isis." Chris Brown and Drake just dropped a sizzling one. however a lot of the times i am going lower back to the old faculty stuff. Like, for some rationale I been in the world, Wind and hearth and Mobb Deep recently, and that i just mix it up. be counted reality, today I'ma start my Justin Timberlake phase, I'ma likely listen to "Cry Me A River" about 100 instances, so I just like all types of music."

So, are we ever going to get extra track from Shaq? "I obtained about 20 unreleased tracks, i may do whatever with it," he talked about be mentioning that he once performed with infamous B.I.G. "It turned into one summer time [Biggie] had me come up there with him. the crowd went crazy. It was splendid. Him and Jay Z are probably both most beneficial guys I worked with. And the top-quality producer I probably ever labored with within the studio became DJ Quik. DJ Quik is excellent."

Shaq isn't the simplest basketball big name to try his hand as a rapper (bear in mind Kobe Bryant's music with Tyra Banks?), but when asked what he idea of alternative ballers entering into the hip hop scene, Shaq didn't wish to say the rest negative. "It ain't my job to judge who's respectable and who's not," Shaq mentioned diplomatically. "all of us come from the identical location. Basketball and hip hop definitely come from the same location. or not it's simply that once i was doing it, my idea become no person wishes to hear a man rap, who's not a rapper, do an entire album."

He persevered, "So my thought changed into for me, being within the dream-crammed attraction state that i used to be in, I want to rap with my favorite guys and nobody has ever became me down. no one has ever charged me and nobody has ever denied a tune that I've did with them, so I feel that speaks for itself. I've accomplished Jay Z. I've carried out Nas. I've performed Mob Deep. I've carried out components Man. I've carried out RZA. I've executed notorious B.I.G. I've finished fat Joe. huge Pun. DJ Quik. Snoop Dogg. Dub C. Ice dice. Peter Gunz. Lord Tariq. Tribe called Quest. Phife Dawg. It do not get no better than that."