September 6th 2023.
Many NBA players have dreamed of becoming rappers over the years, with names like Allen Iverson, Ron Artest, Damian Lillard, and Iman Shumpert coming to mind. However, there is one player who has reached the NBA Hall of Fame and has released a platinum album, earning the title of “greatest NBA rapper of all time” from none other than Snoop Dogg himself.
Last week, Snoop Dogg made that proclamation after the release of a video by rap duo Coyote, featuring Shaquille O’Neal. The song, titled “3 Locos”, features the former NBA player. When asked how the collaboration with Shaq Diesel (the name Shaq uses for his music endeavors) came about, the two emcees, Ladies Love Guapo and Ricky Blanco, explained that Shaq started following them on social media after Ricky Blanco dropped a freestyle verse on the rapper’s Instagram account. Shaq Diesel left comments on the page, and this online relationship eventually led to him being featured on the “3 Locos” track.
When discussing the collaboration, Guapo said that Shaq was interested, but only if the track was “some hardcore stuff.” He said, “He was like, as long as it’s some hardcore stuff, I’m down. So we made a hardcore hip-hop ‘90s-type song, and we’re like, ‘Bro, let’s send it to Shaq,’ and he got on it, did his thing, he spit like 32 bars. He went off!”
Incredibly, Shaq liked the track and a collaboration was done four hours later. The group said, “4 hours later he FaceTimes us and he shows us his verse and he went crazy! He’s rapping better than 90% of rappers out there.” The full music video was released, and the group also mentioned that there is another song with the TNT announcer as well as a track produced by Shaq for the duo.
It remains to be seen if Shaq will be releasing another album in the future, but with his latest collaboration with Coyote, we can only hope that he does!
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