Did you know Kanye West's The College Dropout was actually Shaq Diesel reimagined? Just look at the...Well, forget it. Even some sort of ironic humor is a stretch. But we will say this: As much as Shaquille O'Neal's hip-hop career has been slept on, he does hold achievements that A$AP Rocky, Pusha T, Meek Mill, or many of the better rappers in the game don't have. He has a platinum-selling album in Shaq Diesel and a feature on a Michael Jackson album. The latter of which is sadly and literally impossible to match.
O'Neal is also the last great of a dying breed, and that's not talking about centers either. He's likely going to be the last NBA star to have a commercially respectable rap career. O'Neal definitely isn't a great rapper—dude was saying shit like "I'm hard like a 360 twice jam" and thought nothing of it—but there's some bars that are, dare we say, Kendrick Lamar-esque. Can you differentiate a Shaq line from a "real" rapper's? Prove it below.