We gon switch it up dis week yall.

Welcome ta de firss official MAYNHOLUP!’s Ro Uv De Week NBA Draft Edition mayn. Dis migh be mah favorite sports day uv de year mayn, which i kno iz prolly hard ta believe considerin Minnesota alwayz fuck up der draft mayn. But after hittin de goldmine lass year wit de boi Kevin Love AKA De Angry Whopper mayn an us jackin de #5 pick away from Noz’s team mayn, im excited on de real! (more…)

This is just getting weird:

That’s right, in the wee hours of Friday night at Love, the Northeast club which hosted Gilbert Arenas’ million-dollar 25th birthday party last year, the deejay played a new cut by Jay-Z. The hip-hop icon actually cut it Friday and had it downloaded for a party hosted by LeBron James at the club that night. [Deshawn] Stevenson was told that the lyrics just eviscerated him — in his own town.

Then teammate Damon Jones, who last did something to collect an NBA paycheck two years ago, took the microphone and talked junk about Stevenson.

Caron Butler, the only Wizard present, left because “he felt I was being disrespected,” Stevenson said.

Leave it to this pair of insecure board room gangsters to turn a somewhat friendly rivalry malicious. The Wizards are boycotting Love, as am I. It’s not like I own nice enough shoes to get into that joint anyway. Cue “Go Somewhere“.

Allen Iverson (aka Jewels) – “40 Bars“
from Misunderstood Unreleased LP (Atlantic, 2001)

Catchdubs has got my head twisted by posting Philly’s Young Gunz paying tribute to the uh… Nets? I usually love me some Gunnaz, but this is not a good look. (and, sorry, Nick, I usually support, but you guys got what you deserved for booing a legend, regardless of how he left y’all). So I guess that leaves it up to cocaine blunts to drop the voodoo dance that will light a fire under the sixers ass to turn around their playoff series against the Pistons starting tonight. Probable? No, but a kid can dream, right?

Doing a google search for “Allen Iverson 40 Bars” is the internet equivalent of standing in a room full of old white people making “rapper hand gestures”, except with more venom. Young J-Gaines presents the theory that you can’t truly enjoy basketball unless you also appreciate hip hop and mainstream America’s horrified response to this record out of context definitely helps to illustrate that disconnect. (I tend to think it also works the other way around – if I say “Eastern Conference” you think I’m talking about these goofballs, you’ve gotta get your life in order). Rap music has always thrived on it’s playful ignorance and you can’t expect the “living embodiment of hip hop in a basketball jersey” to bring anything less. If Willie D or Too Short can attain role model status then I think Iverson can maintain that same position and still throw around a few harmless “faggot”s in a rap. Nevertheless, the angry masses succeeded in getting AI’s much anticipated debut LP, the aptly titled Misunderstood shelved and leaving us hungry athleteturnedrapper enthusiasts with just this teaser single.

I was also going to also post something from Chris Webber’s terrible rap record but i realized God Shamgod beat me to it at the ever hilarious Wizznutzz site. And I just don’t think the internet’s big enough for two C-Webb (that’s his rap name, not my abbreviation) tracks.