LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers may be down 0-2 in this year’s NBA Finals, but that didn’t stop a track recorded between him and Warrior star Kevin Durant from 2011 being released this week.
The King and KD linking up on a track may have been the first time we've heard LeBron drop bars but definitely not the first time artists have dropped bars about him.
From Drake to Lil’ Wayne to Kendrick Lamar to Future, LeBron has a heavy following within musical circles. That’s even before mentioning that he is basically best friends with hip-hop mogul Jay Z.
In Drake’s 2010 song "Thank Me Now" he drops the line, “I swear sports and music are so synonymous. Cause we wanna be them, and they wanna be us,” accurately describing the love and respect that athletes like James and prominent artists have for each other's craft.
The unity between the two different worlds is not something that has happened recently, with the likes of Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal dropping bars during their time in the NBA before James’ arrival on the scene. However, in this current era of the sport, no athlete gets more love from artists and shoutouts on songs than the reigning Finals MVP.
Ever since bursting onto the scene as a teenage phenom some 16 years ago, James has been in the national spotlight and has arguably had more name-drops than anyone in the NBA during the same time period.
Hot on the heels of his leaked collab with KD, here are LeBron’s top 10 hip hop moments.