Michael Jordan: "What is a Rakim? Is that hard rap?"

[loyola llothta]

people really believe that the south wasnt listen to hip hop back at that time

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Youngsters don't understand that. They don't realize that people of Jordan's era listened mostly to R&B.

A good example of that is how if you watch the straight outta compton movie.....Alonzo Harris wanted Dr. Dre to spin R&B in the club.


Records like Ready for the World-Let Me Love you Down were playing

 

[Robbie3000]

Maybe he's disdain for Chamillionaire wan't about

Maybe it was because he was a rapper. Mike probably said, "Hell Naw, I ain't taking pictures with no [Rap] nikkas."

Cham was so petrified with fear and shocked with embarrassment he missed the [Rap] part.

 

[Won Won]

:nosamples:

 

[Samori Toure]

Yupp. Kenny the Jet Smith, who was his North Carolina teammate in college, is HUGE fan of rap

That might be because Kenny is covering the young guys in the NBA and is exposed to the music more. Otherwise Kenny grew up in the R&B generation too and

Maybe he's disdain for Chamillionaire wan't about

Maybe it was because he was a rapper. Mike probably said, "Hell Naw, I ain't taking pictures with no [Rap] nikkas."

Cham was so petrified with fear and shocked with embarrassment he missed the [Rap] part.

 

[KG1]

 

[ISO]

Yupp. Kenny the Jet Smith, who was his North Carolina teammate in college, is HUGE fan of rap

Kenny Smith is from LeFrak in Queens, he's from the inner city where hip hop music and culture developed. Jordan grew up in a rural/suburban North Carolina town he grew up strictly on old school R&B, jazz, soul, gospel, funk and the blues not hip hop. He's probably into Ohio Players and Anita Baker music like that.

MJ was already an adult when Rakim hit the scene and just never got into hip hop he's a country boy hip hop wasn't being played like that. MJ didn't even have cable in his town growing up so he wasn't watching Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow or LL on MTV.

There's a lot of cats MJ's age that don't listen to hip hop, MJ was born in the beginning of the so called "hip hop" generation. Just look at Obama who has admitted to getting into rap late and has a playlist full of Aretha Franklin and The Temptations.

 

[hayesc0]

Michael Jordan is from Brooklyn.

He was born in Brooklyn he is from Wilmington NC.

 

[mbewane]

how ya like me now......

 

[Still FloW]

are we surprised ?

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

This interview probably was done in the early part of the mid 90's. Ra was still considered the Zenith of rapping at that point. Rap excellence.

Like pac wasn't around..

 

[UpAndComing]

Kenny Smith is from LeFrak in Queens, he's from the inner city where hip hop music and culture developed. Jordan grew up in a rural/suburban North Carolina town he grew up strictly on old school R&B, jazz, soul, gospel, funk and the blues not hip hop. He's probably into Ohio Players and Anita Baker music like that.

MJ was already an adult when Rakim hit the scene and just never got into hip hop he's a country boy hip hop wasn't being played like that. MJ didn't even have cable in his town growing up so he wasn't watching Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow or LL on MTV.

There's a lot of cats MJ's age that don't listen to hip hop, MJ was born in the beginning of the so called "hip hop" generation. Just look at Obama who has admitted to getting into rap late and has a playlist full of Aretha Franklin and The Temptations.

Yupp 100% agree. Jordan was born in 1963. He was about 23-24 when Hip Hop became big
I think people born in the early to mid 60s could go either way with Hip Hop. Either they just don't relate to it at all, or they are just casual fans of it
I see people born at that time like Kenan Ivory Wayans, Eddie Murphy, Magic Johnson, etc look like they aren't part of the Hip Hop era at all

Hell, I bet even Kool DJ Herc (born 1955) can't relate 100% to the genre that he helped create

 

[Sccit]

ANOTHER REASON KOBE>JORDAN

 

[Afromaticz]

Wtf

 

[ahdsend]

This interview probably was done in the early part of the mid 90's. Ra was still considered the Zenith of rapping at that point. Rap excellence.

na this is from the same vibe magazine that had orlando anderson's interview wit sanyika shakur, december 97....