Kobe Bryant, the Lakers icon, has a lifelong passion for hip-hop, but his success as a rapper was never as great as his achievement as a basketball player. Because of his love of the genre, Kobe used to hold cyphers with his peers when he was younger. even tried making pen tap rhythms to accompany their rhymes. But it was his friend Kevin Sanchez, often known as Sandman, who actually taught him how to rap.
Kobe and his friends also started a rap group called She Saw in high school, but they were embarrassed to tell anyone about it for obvious reasons. The guys collaborated on performances and rhymes whenever they could, their shared enthusiasm guiding their efforts. Kobe's dual objectives provided a challenge, however He was establishing himself in the hip-hop community in the meantime and made his NBA debut in 1996 as a player of great potential. Meanwhile, Sandman, another of his friends and a musician, was wrongfully detained for armed robbery in the rap scene.