Golden State Warriors change the game with record label and first album release, ‘For The Soil’
The NBA and hip-hop go together like peanut butter and jelly. Lots of rappers and artists are part of the fabric of various NBA teams. For instance, rapper Drake is an ambassador for the Toronto Raptors and is always on the sidelines of the Raptors’ home games. Singer Usher is a part-owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers; Nelly is a part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats and who can famously forget the ownership stake that rapper Jay-Z had in the Brooklyn Nets, a move memorialized in the song “****** in Paris,” where Jay famously rapped, “what’s 50 grand to a (person) like me, can you please remind me…the Nets can go 0 for 82 and I’ll look at you like, this (stuff) crazy!”
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