410 Days Since His Imprisonment, Atlanta-Based Rapper’s Latest Album Gets the Approval of Michael Jordan’s Son Marcus and James Harden

Rap and NBA have a relationship that dates back to the genesis of hip-hop itself. Many NBA players have turned rappers. Shaquille O’Neal is a prime example of that. His album even sold a million copies. The same goes for many others in the current and previous generations of NBA. Whereas, rappers have had NBA ambitions too, where the case of J Cole is prominent. There are many such examples. Therefore, it is not surprising when rappers get a shout-out from NBA royalty.

This happened when a big-shot rapper released an album. James Harden and Michael Jordan’s son Marcus Jordan gave him a shot-out.

Young Thug gets huge endorsements from James Harden and Marcus Jordan

Rapper Young Thug released his album Business is Business recently. This album comes after his 2021 work Punk. He teased the album last week and then dropped it just a few hours ago. The album has features from rapping stalwarts like Drake and Future.

NBA top-tier player James Harden shared a story that had a snippet of a song, shared by the rapper himself. Apart from Harden, Marcus Jordan also shared stories and seemed to have taken a liking to one of those songs.

In one of the stories, the former basketball player posted the song Oh U Went which features Drake. He captioned it. “Biz is Biz,” the title of the album. He also posted lyrics from the songs, one which says, “Baby turn around forget the missionary,” and the one which said, “THEY SAY THAT LIFE’S ABOUT BALANCE IS IN MY ACCOUNT NOW.” The subsequent stories also are about the songs from the album, and it seems like he has taken a liking to this album. 

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The new album took this long because the music artist was arrested due to gang-related charges in May 2022. Along with him, Gunna, Deamonte ‘Yak Gotti’ Kendrick, and various other members of Young Stoners’ life were also arrested due to gang-related violations. While Gunna pleaded guilty to one of the violations and was released in December last year, Young Thug has pleaded not guilty and continues to be incarcerated. The Atlanta-based musician has kept on fighting the cases in court. 

The current generation of NBA rappers

There are a lot of current NBA players who have tried their luck at rapping. One of the most prominent among them is Damian Lillard. His hip-hop moniker is Dame D.O.L.L.A. He has released four albums thus far and has collaborated with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne. 

Former Knicks player Iman Shumpert also has engaged in this business and possesses a smooth flow but if we go into the number of NBA players who have tried pro-level rapping, the list is non-exhaustive, even LeBron James has done so!

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